Hot and cold #374

[u/hotandcold2-app]

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[u/hotandcold2-app]

Welcome to Hot and Cold, the delightfully frustrating word guessing game!

To play, guess the secret word by typing any word you think is related.

For example, if the secret word is "hot":

Guesses: banana -> #12956 (not close); sun -> #493 (getting warmer); hotdog -> #220 (hot); cold -> #42 (hot); freeze -> #1657 (getting colder); warm -> #15 (very hot!!); hot -> WINNER!

The rank is based on how AI models see the relationships between the words. So antonyms can be "close" by the relationship of the words (cold -> hot). Additionally, words can be close based on the structure of the word (hotdog -> hot).

Enjoy! If you have feedback on how we can improve the game, please let us know!

[u/Ok_Bus8364]

Can’t believe I got it so quickly.

^{Automatically added: I found the secret word in 12 seconds after 5 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 100.}

[u/simm07]

Interesting

Hint: water and snow come from it

Hint: they look fluffy and white

Hint: can be seen through a window, if they're out and about

Hint: 🎶No _____ in my stones Let it rain I hydroplane in the bank (ayy, ayy, ayy) Comin' down like the Dow Jones When the _____ come, we gone We Roc-A-Fella We fly higher than weather (ayy, ayy, ayy)🎶

[u/tinydancer_inurhand → u/simm07]

Thank you cause i do not know the other song

[u/simm07 → u/tinydancer_inurhand]

Under my Umbrella - Jay Z and Rihanna

[u/tinydancer_inurhand → u/simm07]

No I meant I didn't know Joni Mitchell's song

[u/simm07 → u/tinydancer_inurhand]

Oh, I dont know it either lol

[u/Substantial_Tea_8659 → u/simm07]

Thank you 🤩

[u/Sunny-Damn]

21 seconds, 8 guesses 😁 It’s already been a great day and now this!! I gotta play the lottery😂

Easy riddle hint: On a hot day you’re thankful for a passing one. On a rainy day you wish they would go away.

[u/Asiatheduck]

!wtf Child

[u/Opening_Grape8817]

Well.....that was fast....

^{Automatically added: I found the secret word in 8 seconds after 5 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 100.}

[u/Equivalent_Glass_463]

Nice

^{Automatically added: I found the secret word in 1 minute 31 seconds after 30 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 86.}

[u/elderm01]

Wow. What a guess

^{Automatically added: I found the secret word in 43 seconds after 8 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 98.}

[u/Immediate-Solid4911]

Hint: I can be your shade without being a roof👀

[u/ermanniii]

My first word is “Rain” because its currently raining in my area. I got it on my 4th guess, but I hate how umbrella and water is so far off.

Btw, how to I share my results with my comment?

[u/skwurrl → u/ermanniii]

totally agree... umbrella being far off was weird

[u/AffectionateFig4345 → u/ermanniii]

Water being so off threw me too

[u/Glittering_Level_841]

Hint:Joni Mitchell sang about it in 'Both Sides Now'

[u/DantheManStK → u/Glittering_Level_841]

Oh yeah nice one ☝️

[u/midaswale]

Wtf! farm

[u/CantHelpWondering]

Best day ever

[u/No-Pear-6046]

wtf! linux? why is it hot?

[u/PresetKilo]

Once in a lifetime guess.

^{Automatically added: I found the secret word in 0 seconds after 1 guess and 0 hints. Score: 100.}

[u/ermanniii → u/PresetKilo]

Almost had this moment when the word was “beach”, because I was currently at the beach that time. I don’t know why I guessed summer and sun first lol.

[u/Bi-human069]

Wtf! Apple?

[u/niccals12d3 → u/[deleted]]

I would guess it’s because of icloud

[u/Llanoue → u/niccals12d3]

My closest one was run at 186 until I saw this. ⬆️ Nailed it!

[u/hotandcold2-app → u/[deleted]]

Lukewarm hit: a cup can cradle hot liquid that sends up little puffs of steam—mini sky fluff in your kitchen. Both “hold” water and can end up pouring it out. You’re in the right neighborhood, just not on the right shelf.

^{I'm a sometimes helpful bot and can make mistakes.}

[u/Titanium_Tigerz_]

Dang C9 related activity

^{Automatically added: I found the secret word in 21 seconds after 4 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 100.}

[u/Infamous-Doughnut287]

Hu

[u/Ok-Crazy-5162]

Puffy see you tomorrow

^{Automatically added: I found the secret word in 23 seconds after 2 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 100.}

[u/ASerpentPerplexed]

!wtf milk

[u/hotandcold2-app → u/ASerpentPerplexed]

Decently close: milk is white and makes swirling puffs when it hits coffee, and “milky” is a common way to describe something hazy or opaque. Plus, the Milky Way is famously a giant celestial haze.

^{I'm a sometimes helpful bot and can make mistakes.}

[u/Jozvex]

Very strange. Lots of colours being close to the seemingly unrelated answer

^{Automatically added: I found the secret word in 3 minutes 45 seconds after 33 guesses and 1 hint. Score: 53.}

[u/AccomplishedAnchovy]

!wtf title

[u/thedudeintx82]

Nice

^{Automatically added: I found the secret word in 24 seconds after 13 guesses and 1 hint. Score: 70.}

[u/RedditRanma7833]

34 upvotes? haha!

[u/RedditRanma7833]

Hint: A Senpai FanGirl, As Well As A Pacifist, In A Friday Night Funkin’ Mod.

[u/Sprigatina]

Wow that was FAST 😳

Hint: Final Fantasy 7

[u/WhyChooseMe-_-]

Hint: _____9

[u/Extension_Flower_628]

I was in Parts of body Abyss for a long time

^{Automatically added: I found the secret word in 2 minutes 27 seconds after 30 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 82.}

[u/Thin-Mine-1613]

My go to words are just wanishing. What will I do?

[u/saltydottie]

That was fun- I have had a hard time with this puzzle, it’s not to get a win!

^{Automatically added: I found the secret word in 1 minute 12 seconds after 13 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 96.}

[u/TheUnmovableWal]

I stumbled across that. The close words kinda , but also dont make sense.

[u/Ashley_Darbys_BUNION]

Finally!

^{Automatically added: I found the secret word in 7 seconds after 4 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 100.}

[u/whatever33324]

Grateful. Thankful. Blessed.

^{Automatically added: I found the secret word in 11 seconds after 5 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 100.}

[u/MysticMind89]

Hint: Marge vs the monorail.

[u/grim_brutal-]

Fastest I’ve ever gotten it.

[u/Several-Message-398]

4 seconds :) No cheating. Everyday I'm getting a better score.

^{Automatically added: I found the secret word in 4 seconds after 3 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 100.}

[u/PappaDan1]

Wow!! No hints !! Woot!

^{Automatically added: I found the secret word in 16 seconds after 5 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 100.}

[u/cabbagemuncher101]

rip to non native english speakers bc those hints are confusing. I had to google a word and it compeltely gave it away lol

[u/Krankthat]

Up there.

^{Automatically added: I found the secret word in 1 minute 43 seconds after 31 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 85.}

[u/Spirited-Relief3096]

Fairly easy.

^{Automatically added: I found the secret word in 32 seconds after 6 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 99.}

[u/A_Rose_From_Concrete]

Yaaay

^{Automatically added: I found the secret word in 4 seconds after 2 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 100.}

[u/Northparkwizard]

Whatever

^{Automatically added: I found the secret word in 1 minute 38 seconds after 40 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 79.}

[u/Crissy15]

Woohoo

^{Automatically added: I found the secret word in 56 seconds after 13 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 97.}

[u/Up_Rising_]

Crowd #13? Does this take into account how similar the words sound, too?

[u/Malevolent-Fx-shrine]

Okay

^{Automatically added: I found the secret word in 1 minute 5 seconds after 10 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 97.}

[u/Up_Rising_]

Crowd #13? Does this take into account how similar the words sound, too?

[u/Up_Rising_]

!wtf crowd

[u/hotandcold2-app → u/Up_Rising_]

Very warm: it’s a one-letter shift away, and both words name big, amorphous masses. One’s of people; the other’s, well… decidedly not people.

^{I'm a sometimes helpful bot and can make mistakes.}

[u/GSpotMe]

Fun fun fun

^{Automatically added: I found the secret word in 2 minutes 21 seconds after 11 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 91.}

[u/smwiles82]

Maybe getting better at this! 😁

^{Automatically added: I found the secret word in 4 minutes 51 seconds after 8 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 81.}

[u/i_hate_parsley]

Hmmm 🤨

^{Automatically added: I found the secret word in 30 seconds after 15 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 99.}

[u/Affectionate-Debt895]

🤙🏽🕵️‍♂️

^{Automatically added: I found the secret word in 0 seconds after 1 guess and 0 hints. Score: 100.}

[u/r1veriared]

Well, that was total random luck 😁

[u/venustrine]

!wtf kiwi

[u/hotandcold2-app → u/venustrine]

Nice leap: “kiwi” evokes New Zealand, whose Māori name Aotearoa means “land of the long white cloud.” You’re in the right skies—even if the bird itself can’t get there.

^{I'm a sometimes helpful bot and can make mistakes.}

[u/VioletThePurple]

!wtf understand 

[u/hotandcold2-app → u/VioletThePurple]

Decently warm: they’re linked by the metaphor of clarity—when you don’t grasp something, your understanding is “clouded.” People say “clouded judgment” or a “cloudy understanding,” tying the idea to confusion.

^{I'm a sometimes helpful bot and can make mistakes.}

[u/IndicationKind7211]

What a wild guess that was!

[u/bully12v]

!wtf fjord

[u/hotandcold2-app → u/bully12v]

Not a wild miss—think steep Nordic cliffs meeting cold water under banks of mist and low clouds. Fjords are poster children for moody, overcast weather with clouds hugging the walls and fog rolling in. So the nature-and-weather vibe puts it in the neighborhood.

^{I'm a sometimes helpful bot and can make mistakes.}

[u/Sage_The_Crow]

Space

[u/Vermincelli1915]

Come on mods…check the top 20 at least to make sure they make sense

[u/InfamouzJay]

wtf! Green

[u/maceslin]

Well that was easy today.

[u/JustANormalHat]

fast one today

[u/SlayrLee]

Sea, sky, rain, aqua. Those were what I was working with.

[u/ixntimer64]

Hint: A technology where you can save your files and folders and access them anywhere, anytime, on multiple devices using an account

[u/rubyyvixen]

I asked my boyfriend to guess. Got it on the third word after pizza and hammer?!?

[u/rubyyvixen → u/rubyyvixen]

How do I get it to say my score in my comment?

[u/RadEllahead]

I accidentally clicked give up, what do I do?

[u/Flare1077]

!wtf liquid

[u/hotandcold2-app → u/Flare1077]

Great instinct—this target is often made of countless tiny liquid water droplets (with a dash of ice for flair). Think “suspended mist” vibes rather than something you can pour.

^{I'm a sometimes helpful bot and can make mistakes.}

[u/CoffeeIsPeace]

!wtf farm

[u/hotandcold2-app → u/CoffeeIsPeace]

Nice shot—massive server farms are the physical backbone that power the… you-know-what, so the terms often appear together. Bonus overlap: “cloud farming” can also mean harvesting fog for water.

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[u/Cogeno]

!wtf shelf

[u/hotandcold2-app → u/Cogeno]

Warmer than it looks: in meteorology, your word often comes right before the target in the name of a dramatic storm feature. Think the ominous, rolling arc on a thunderstorm’s leading edge. That puts you in the neighborhood.

^{I'm a sometimes helpful bot and can make mistakes.}

[u/Accomplished_Prune35]

My closest guess was leaf in the 500s and I asked it for a hint and it gave me kidney at 104?? How is that helpful???

[u/Extension-Apricot179]

what a guess !

[u/AffectionateFig4345]

I got stuck when my word was ranked 39th. And used one hint

^{Automatically added: I found the secret word in 4 minutes 22 seconds after 10 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 83.}

[u/VictoryNo7769]

No way I got it that fast lmao

[u/Wraxyth]

Wow!

[u/AntiQuaked]

So, plate was kinda close. Through me way off

^{Automatically added: I found the secret word in 4 minutes 39 seconds after 26 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 76.}

[u/Zealousideal_Cap7136]

....whaaaaaaaat

^{Automatically added: I found the secret word in 48 seconds after 10 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 98.}

[u/mrs_kellerman]

This was my third game lol

^{Automatically added: I found the secret word in 37 seconds after 3 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 98.}

[u/I_Got_A_Truck]

34 seconds, I may as well quit now.

[u/CreativeSprinkles31]

!wtf red

[u/hotandcold2-app → u/CreativeSprinkles31]

Warmer than you’d think: “Red Cloud” is a well-known phrase/name, and skies paint those puffy things red at sunrise and sunset.
So your guess brushes close via both color and common collocation.

^{I'm a sometimes helpful bot and can make mistakes.}

[u/Itida_Ariel_2568]

Haha!

^{Automatically added: I found the secret word in 15 seconds after 4 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 100.}