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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/

Yours has the best interface I've seen so far, but the words still feel kind of obscure when I'm clicking the hint button. Ideally those should be limited to maybe the top 10,000 english words.

I think there's a really approachable game somewhere in this space, but it needs to implement something along the lines of an auto hinting system.

I imagine that for every guess, you could get a word or two that is similar (to help you understand what part of the word's context is important), and maybe words that are further away to help understand what isn't important?

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/

Your visualization makes the game a lot more fun.

I made this in Jan 2022. It's prior art, but I was learning Unity at the time so it is a little janky. In my oh so very humble opinion as its creator, a better guessing game because of the initial hint tuning.

https://greatfilter.itch.io/lexicode

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