Semantle: Daily Word Game

I am having so much fun with this game. It is a great challenge and keeps me very entertained. My only wish is that we could see our guesses in numerical order as well as how we currently see them by similarity. Once the word is guessed, it would be fun to go back and see the path that we took to get there.

I am a sucker for word games and I’m pretty good at them. I always get Queen Bee and Wordle. I solve this game about half the time. It’s supposed to be a context based game but sometimes the context doesn’t make much sense. Today’s word was Alike; some of the closest words were legions, spellbind, clamored, roomful, both, universally. Frankly, I don’t see much relational context among any of these words. No wonder I didn’t get it. So I think the algorithm needs work.

I have played wordle (and quordle and octordle) but they do not use your brain in the same way that Semantle does. In Semantle you are exploring ideas and language and then really working on your vocabulary and word association as you get closer to the daily word. Sometimes I find the word in 30 or 40 words and other times it’s more like hundreds. If I finish quickly but still want more play time I’ll go back and try to guess the top 10 words. This is the app that should get promoted as good for your brain, it is surely superior to word searches and anagramming games for making you think!