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Websites & web apps Co-created

Contexto

The Brazilian answer to Semantle: guess the secret word by meaning, ranked by a language model, which became the big word game of early 2023 far beyond Brazil.

By
Nildo Junior
Year
2022
Country
Brazil
Category
Websites & web apps
Also
Games & interactive
Purpose
Entertainment
Degree of AI
Co-created
Tools
Word embeddings

Where the human came in

A Brazilian engineer living in Norway wanted the game in Portuguese, rebuilt it with a ranking instead of a score, cleaned the word lists and added the share button that made it spread.

Why it is not slop

A better version of someone else's idea, made for a language the original ignored. The ranking is friendlier than the score, and the world adopted it.

Seed entry: written from public sources and awaiting editorial review.

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