The Password Game
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Every password rule you feared, plus a chess puzzle
Mind Benders
Guess the word by meaning, not by letters
semantle.com
Coffee break · Works anywhere
Free, no sign-up · online since 2022
Every guess is scored by how close it sits to the secret word in a word-vector model, so ocean might rate highly for ship while sharing no letters at all. There is no letter feedback and no guess limit, only a similarity number telling you whether you are getting warmer.
Watching your score jump from 12 to 48 because you switched a noun for its verb form teaches more about semantics than any lesson would.
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