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gave up on semantle #20 after 238 guesses and getting to 996/1000 on guess 94 just put me out of my misery 😭

7:12 AM · Feb 18, 2022Twitter Web App

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

Feb 18

one day in the glorious future when we have multiplayer semantle (one person picks a word, everyone else has to try to guess it) i think it'll make an amazing party game for Hyperverbal Nerds *but* you'll need to impose a limit on # of guesses to avoid it dragging out. 100?

QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

Feb 18

also i feel like i have a decent grasp of the mid to late game but no idea how to open, i'm getting good openings by luck. need to potentially cover a lot of bases, pick words that are close to many word2vec clusters, and i have no clear sense of how to do that

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I solved Semantle #20 in 173 guesses. semantle.novalis.org

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I stepped away a few times but eventually got it. it helped me to imagine "what similar words would appear in news articles"

QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

Feb 18

yeah in retrospect i don't think i stepped away enough, every time i did i thought of new words but *still not the right one* D:

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brutal! your post yesterday introduced this to me. so much cooler (and more frustrating😂) than wordle. i'm at 982 on 84 guesses. i'm gonna let it marinate through the day.