Game #144
Shortest path: 3 (Avg. 5.5)
Total words: 4 (Avg. 11.8)
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https://linxicon.com
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  • jol
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    4 months ago

    This must be the most frustrating game like these. I don’t get the intuition of why some words are decided distance. I guess it takes into account all possible meanings.

    Edit: in the end I was able to get the perfect score after several tries.

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      4 months ago

      This type of game is based off a dataset that came out a few years ago, that was originally built to train AI. It’s built by analysing all text fed to it (pretty much all of Google book and a very large part of the internet) and whether a word is close or not depends on how frequently the words appear near each other.

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        4 months ago

        how frequently the words appear near each other

        That’s what I thought for yesterday’s puzzle and tried “final” and “version” but apparently there was no connection between them. I guess if you keep playing you’ll start learning the dataset too.

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          4 months ago

          One thing I misunderstood is that it’s not about how close they are semantically, but in meaning. It’s subtle.

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            4 months ago

            I just played for the first time and got:

            Game #144
            Shortest path: 3 (Avg. 3)
            Total words: 3 (Avg. 3)
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            I must have just got lucky with the word I chose: >!food!<

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              4 months ago

              Interestingly, I chose the same word that you did. But the direct connection to “living” seems to be a stretch.