mathematics Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 Crossword 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 1 minute ago, mathematics said: Crossword To me that's much closer than the 998 word. I would say the actual word is somewhat close to crossword, but in an American way. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 2 minutes ago, mathematics said: Crossword Narrow it down to subjects would be my tip, being as I'm an expert now after doing #47. Science, geography, netflix, scandal, award, music etc. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematics Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 35 guesses and done. Used two hints. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardinal Richelieu Posted May 25, 2022 Author Share Posted May 25, 2022 Got semantle in 21 after 1 hint and a WTF is this game. I'll need to edit the poll again. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted May 27, 2022 Share Posted May 27, 2022 41 guesses for Redactle today. Just tried Semantle, used "hint" at 136th attempt and got the answer the next go, which was nothing like where my better scoring guesses were taking me. Grrrr. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aim Here Posted May 27, 2022 Share Posted May 27, 2022 (edited) 54 minutes ago, welshbairn said: 41 guesses for Redactle today. Just tried Semantle, used "hint" at 136th attempt and got the answer the next go, which was nothing like where my better scoring guesses were taking me. Grrrr. That's part of the thing with semantle - you can have words with 'dead end' meanings, because some other meaning has the closer references; for instance if you have 'burn' as the target, then 'river' and 'stream' and so forth will get you quite close to the end word, but there's all the 'scorch' and 'sear' and 'roast' meanings that will take up the closest spots. Even when you're getting some matches in the top 1000, it's still worthwhile to throw a few random words in there to see if there's a bunch of meanings you've missed. The visualization in pimantle is a neat innovation that shows you if your words are likely to be that kind of dead end, in that the 'arms' of the outgoing spirals tend to be the closest meanings - e.g. they'll all be names of animals or something, and if the closet dot in the spiral arm is still quite far from the target, you're looking at one of these dead end groups of meanings. Edited May 27, 2022 by Aim Here 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted May 27, 2022 Share Posted May 27, 2022 48 minutes ago, Aim Here said: That's part of the thing with semantle - you can have words with 'dead end' meanings, because some other meaning has the closer references; for instance if you have 'burn' as the target, then 'river' and 'stream' and so forth will get you quite close to the end word, but there's all the 'scorch' and 'sear' and 'roast' meanings that will take up the closest spots. Even when you're getting some matches in the top 1000, it's still worthwhile to throw a few random words in there to see if there's a bunch of meanings you've missed. The visualization in pimantle is a neat innovation that shows you if your words are likely to be that kind of dead end, in that the 'arms' of the outgoing spirals tend to be the closest meanings - e.g. they'll all be names of animals or something, and if the closet dot in the spiral arm is still quite far from the target, you're looking at one of these dead end groups of meanings. I'll show you my list of words tomorrow, it was getting incredibly gory, which isn't a clue to the answer.. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aim Here Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 Heh, I just did today's Redactle in 3, and I feel the need to brag at someone! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 19 minutes ago, Aim Here said: Heh, I just did today's Redactle in 3, and I feel the need to brag at someone! c**t Bad enough seeing my one online friend I introduced it to doing it in 23 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematics Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 15 hours ago, Aim Here said: Heh, I just did today's Redactle in 3, and I feel the need to brag at someone! 29 for me. Much easier that the previous day’s! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 24 goes for redactle, steady daily improvement 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 On 24/05/2022 at 19:53, Miguel Sanchez said: If it's any consolation after getting the 998/1000 word I used a hint for 999, had no idea how it was related and when I gave up it was just the plural of that. That tip has just saved my sanity on pimantle, thank you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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