A word game I built to understand semantic distance

I don't understand what I'm supposed to be doing here.

I really want to like games like this, but it's not really clear from the UI what direction you should be going. There's a list of suggestions, but I guess that's just a starting point? And a few words in it just ended the game.

The previous versions of this game were _okay_, but semantic similarity is so fuzzy and the UIs just don't work for this yet.

The intro is super cool tho, kudos for that.

Cosine distance on GloVe-50 trained on Wikipedia. *GloVe is an unsupervised learning algorithm for obtaining vector representations for words. Training is performed on aggregated global word-word co-occurrence statistics from a corpus, and the resulting representations showcase interesting linear substructures of the word vector space.

How is this on the front page?

On initial load, I was met with a completley black screen after the animation.

On second load, there's a form field with no context as to what to enter. After submission, I'm still completely lost.

> Bigger the font, the closer your guess is as per my humble semantic AI.

The font size appears to be uniform?

Another semantic distance guessing game is https://semantle.com/

It’s not working on iPhone

On mobile, the text I type is black on a black background.

On desktop, the intro movie stalls, and I have to do right-click -> show controls -> play, to get the game to start.

I just ran out of guesses (how many do you have?) and was told the secret word was yarn. About in the middle of my guesses was "string", apparently not very semantically related to yarn? I am not going to play this any more right now.

It's fun, reminds me of an early version of Semantle.

Font size as a proximity indicator is a neat idea but also kind of annoying in practice, because it's hard to have an intuitive understanding of how close or far you are. Would suggest a numeric scale.

But that's a very minor nitpick, cool concept!

from what i see you have to guess a word from the list given

yellow squares are how many tries you have

as you put a word in, it will get added to the list of guesses

the closer words are at the bottom (thanks @ukv) so the goal is to extrapolate, eg is it an animal name, or an object? based on the order of your previous tries.

the font-size thing is a complete misnomer as its not really perceptible. but the insert location for guesses is more useful (but not documented)

there may be sort algorithm strategies for playing this, eg try two most distant words first... but the nature of the multi-dimensional word-distance being flattened to a single dimension makes it really hard to guess, imho.

when you get it right it deletes all word context and history.

interesting idea but a front-end dev could help make it playable!

https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=p6QKLIMAAAAJ&hl=...

The intro is really cool!

I have a feeling that the game idea is really cool.

But as other mentioned, I don't seem to understand what I should be doing. And there is only one font size (Firefox/Linux). The instructions hint otherwise. I also get the same list of suggestions every time.

I made something similar; reverse dictionary to play with embeddings https://deonarine.com/posts/reverse-dictionary/

Cool! It's a fun challenge to come up with a meaningful hint system. Here's mine from 2022:

https://greatfilter.itch.io/lexicode

The coolest part about this is that I was unaware that you could force full screen and lock the orientation from a web page. TIL

Word Golf: https://www.word.golf/

Some instructions would have made this interesting.