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Re: Contexto: Find the Secret Word

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Post by gauddasa » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 1:00 AM UTC

I got red=12, blue=20 and magenta=9283. Also, yellow=33 and orange=93, green=95 and pink=389 if that might help. The word was "flag" but good luck if you are from Nigeria, Pakistan, Brazil, Libya or Mexico.

Re: Contexto: Find the Secret Word

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Post by jose-cl » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 1:06 AM UTC

my word was "temperature" and my "voltage" attempt gave a distance of 46, so I was biased and finally gave up. I will try again another day

Re: Contexto: Find the Secret Word

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Post by sublinear » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 1:37 AM UTC

68 guesses, 1 tip. green: 16, yellow: 9, red: 44

Re: Contexto: Find the Secret Word

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Post by kisonecat » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 2:05 AM UTC

jml7c5 wrote: post #49

pimanrules wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I might as well take this opportunity to plug my clone of Semantle which uses a tSNE visualization. I've heard many people say this helps them visualize the chains of logic in their guesses. https://semantle.pimanrul.es/

My partner and I were consumed by this for a while. There's something very satisfying about hopping from cluster to cluster and recognizing the various meanings of a word. Makes me wonder what 3D (or even 4D) version would be like.

At least a 2D visualization is at https://word2vec.xyz/

Re: Contexto: Find the Secret Word

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Post by jmknoll » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 2:55 AM UTC

pimanrules wrote: post #22

azeemba wrote: post #2

Seems similar to https://semantle.com/ but backed by a different "similarity" calculation. The "bar" visualization is also nicer to track how close/far you are.

I might as well take this opportunity to plug my clone of Semantle which uses a tSNE visualization. I've heard many people say this helps them visualize the chains of logic in their guesses. https://semantle.pimanrul.es/

Your visualization makes the game a lot more fun.

Re: Contexto: Find the Secret Word

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Post by ccvannorman » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 3:18 AM UTC

I got #2 as Humidity, #22 as Humid, Hint gave me #3 as Celcius, so I guessed Farenheit which was #484. Give up, answer was Temperature. Really? Celcius #3 and Farneheit #484? smh.

Re: Contexto: Find the Secret Word

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Post by picture » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 3:21 AM UTC

ccvannorman wrote: post #56

I got #2 as Humidity, #22 as Humid, Hint gave me #3 as Celcius, so I guessed Farenheit which was #484. Give up, answer was Temperature. Really? Celcius #3 and Farneheit #484? smh.

Just curious, did you spell it Fahrenheit or Farenheit?

Re: Contexto: Find the Secret Word

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Post by selcuka » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 3:27 AM UTC

picture wrote: post #57

ccvannorman wrote: post #56

I got #2 as Humidity, #22 as Humid, Hint gave me #3 as Celcius, so I guessed Farenheit which was #484. Give up, answer was Temperature. Really? Celcius #3 and Farneheit #484? smh.

Just curious, did you spell it Fahrenheit or Farenheit?

Yeah, apparently "Farenheit" is a valid word for the game, but it's a typo. Celsius and Fahrenheit are actually very close.

Re: Contexto: Find the Secret Word

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Post by throwaway290 » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 3:47 AM UTC

First couple of words it converted to normalized forms, which I guess was intended to make the game easier? The third word I tried ("restlessnesses") it just said it doesn't know at all.

Re: Contexto: Find the Secret Word

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Post by albert_e » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 3:35 PM UTC

NathanielBaking wrote: post #31

I suspect like Wordle, or crosswords for that matter, it will take a certain amount of practice to get the hang of it. But! 43 guesses and I feel good about it.

44 here

I think i lucked out by landing a 'green' word i.e., a close word as first guess today

I played semantle for a few days and it used ri take hundreds of guesses sometimes

so not sure if we can do much better than 10-20 guesses