just re-read this & nearly choked on a pretzel rod lol'ing, thank u karl
if no one responds or tries, i will take that as a signal that you all are working on your own versions of the game for your personal profit, and i will see you in court, and then in hell
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 1 July 2021 17:22 (two years ago) link
Why'd you have to start threads like this at the most inconvenient time.
FACEACHEDIALODDS
― In the wastelands of Birmingham and Manchester, massages are back (ledge), Thursday, 1 July 2021 17:28 (two years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Sator_Square_at_Opp%C3%A8de.jpg/220px-Sator_Square_at_Opp%C3%A8de.jpg
― imago, Thursday, 1 July 2021 17:37 (two years ago) link
PALEOPENDEAD
-- emil.y
first qualifying 4x3 grid
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 July 2021 17:50 (two years ago) link
C L A PR A G EA M E NW E S T― Lavator Shemmelpennick
C L A PR A G EA M E NW E S T
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 July 2021 17:52 (two years ago) link
^^^ shit! i meant first qualifying 4x4 grid!!! ^^^
this is hard work for me, making this money
FROMRAPEERASEELS
― johnny crunch
i think this is the finest example we have so far. but i cannot call it a flawless victory (and neither can you - I'm trademarking that)
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 July 2021 17:54 (two years ago) link
B A L MA R E AL I N TE A T S
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Thursday, 1 July 2021 17:58 (two years ago) link
that grid looks like it was strategically created! :)
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 July 2021 18:00 (two years ago) link
Augh, this is hard. You become attached to certain words and create your own problems.
― jmm, Thursday, 1 July 2021 18:03 (two years ago) link
the first person to solve each successively larger stage of the problem will be rewarded with a thin mint
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 July 2021 18:08 (two years ago) link
i tried to do one with things Pantera's Dimebag Darrell (R.I.P.) wanted from his passive humbucker pickups in order to get a flawless... no luck so far
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 1 July 2021 18:10 (two years ago) link
we've got a 4x4, can i get a 4x5? do we have a 4x5?? *gets mint out of bag*
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 July 2021 18:10 (two years ago) link
― Lavator Shemmelpennick
first attempt at concept grid, Lavator Shemmelpennick
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 July 2021 18:11 (two years ago) link
if it wasn't hard to do, i wouldn't give you these thin mints
participation trophies? when i was a kid you didn't get bold print let alone thin mints unless you actually won something
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 1 July 2021 18:12 (two years ago) link
first person to get sued for defamation on this thread, Lavator Shemmelpennick
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 July 2021 18:14 (two years ago) link
i won't back down until you break a new record for real
oh shit. working on it
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 1 July 2021 18:14 (two years ago) link
to those who are angry about the legal system - what you got a better idea? until then, let's expand the grid
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 July 2021 18:15 (two years ago) link
*idly eats thin mints*
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 July 2021 18:33 (two years ago) link
IDLYEATSTHINMINT
― The 💨 that shook the barlow (wins), Thursday, 1 July 2021 18:38 (two years ago) link
*broken whistle sound*
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 July 2021 18:39 (two years ago) link
i guess 4x5 is impossible. it's like the 4 minute mile, just completely impossible
3x3 grid: https://i.imgur.com/45NNvCk.png
4x4 grid: just about anybody of average intelligence could pull this off in under an hour
5x5 grid: either you're legitimately gifted or you were patient/crazy enough to dedicate a week's worth of your free time to a linguistic button-mashing exercise
6x6 grid: Karl could comfortably offer a $1,000 cash prize for this (if he could somehow weed out bots/cheaters), because there's only about a 1-in-100,000 chance that one of ilx's 8,471 registered users has the branepower to pull this off
7x7 grid: you are the greatest linguistic genius in human history
8x8 grid: there are more neurons in your brain than there are atoms in the observable universe
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Thursday, 1 July 2021 18:55 (two years ago) link
T OO N
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 1 July 2021 19:08 (two years ago) link
I don't understand what makes the successful grids itt non-flawless
― bruce spr!ngisH3r3 on broadway (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 1 July 2021 19:11 (two years ago) link
6x6 grid: Karl could comfortably offer a $1,000 cash prize for this (if he could somehow weed out bots/cheaters)
i pledge to outweed EVERYONE HERE if we don't see some progress. this is fucking bullshit
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 July 2021 19:11 (two years ago) link
to be flawless, you must be able to say the words in a sentence. so jonny crunch's is the closest we have to an admittedly very subjective thing:
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 July 2021 19:12 (two years ago) link
TARTEAGAINRAGEDSEERS
Agae and maybe Tarte are letting me down
― a hoy hoy, Thursday, 1 July 2021 19:12 (two years ago) link
i think a good stepping stone to the IMPOSSIBLE 5x5 would be a 5x4, or something like a 6x3. let's stretch it out, let's innovate. let's ideate and let's make some big money for me
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 July 2021 19:14 (two years ago) link
Agae, how dreadfully marvellous, that's the plural of Aga
― imago, Thursday, 1 July 2021 19:14 (two years ago) link
Is a sentence just the stacked words or the stacked words and then also the columned words
― bruce spr!ngisH3r3 on broadway (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 1 July 2021 19:14 (two years ago) link
oh damn a hoy hoy, first venture out into "beyond four"died at sea, i'm afraid, as it does NOT qualify.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 July 2021 19:15 (two years ago) link
xp whiney
i think both rows and columns. and i think they should be in some sort of logical order (like all the columns left to right then all the rows top down, for example). i suppose there will probably be some sort of achievement/lawsuit for the first person to make one that uses all the words in a way that makes sense but is also rearranged.
we have to play this by ear. this is like the first season of jeopardy! they were making it up as they went
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 July 2021 19:16 (two years ago) link
i also want to throw out a vision, not for now, because it is actually impossible, but:
what about a 5x5 Flawless Victory Grid where it's not only those 10 words (5 across, 5 down) but also a CROSS-word that goes from one corner to the other. And if you could manage to do 2 of those, that would be 12 words, AND it made sense??????????
again, this is not for our current minds. but i do think that one day, possibly within an hour or two, someone may write a program that does that, surprisingly easy, even. and then i'm taking that sucker to court for violating my IP
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 July 2021 19:18 (two years ago) link
This is so hard
― a hoy hoy, Thursday, 1 July 2021 19:26 (two years ago) link
5x5 crazy hard
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 1 July 2021 19:46 (two years ago) link
working on 5x5's has legitimately made me insane
thanks karl
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 1 July 2021 19:47 (two years ago) link
i'm getting close on a 5x4
not that i play
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 July 2021 19:53 (two years ago) link
ladies and gentlemen
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 1 July 2021 19:53 (two years ago) link
it killed my afternoon, but
G R A N DR A G E RA R I S EM E L T SP R E S S
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 1 July 2021 19:54 (two years ago) link
either you're legitimately gifted or you were patient/crazy enough to dedicate a week's worth of your free time to a linguistic button-mashing exercise
I like to think I am both
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 1 July 2021 19:55 (two years ago) link
the key for me was avoid all vowels except A & E, and even A in final lines, and maximize S and R. next question
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 1 July 2021 19:56 (two years ago) link
i get it, you're all speechless
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 1 July 2021 20:01 (two years ago) link
!!
first 5x5 completion, Lavator Shemmelpennickfirst successful appeal after being sued in this thread, Lavator Shemmelpennick
just astonishing
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 July 2021 20:02 (two years ago) link
Haven't tried my hand at 5x5 yet but I bet it's incredibly tough - congrats, LS!
― emil.y, Thursday, 1 July 2021 20:05 (two years ago) link
RAGER is some bullshit. Yours, a competitor
― imago, Thursday, 1 July 2021 20:06 (two years ago) link
before i post mine, how do we feel about the word vorst
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 July 2021 20:07 (two years ago) link
nice, ledge!!! I'll wait for km to provide the official bold text, should he so choose
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 2 July 2021 14:41 (two years ago) link
I wrote something to generate a five by five list. After thinking for a few minutes it spat out this:
AAHEDABACIHAOLEECLATDIETS
After modifying it to exclude repeated words it's been silent, it might finish sometime in the century after this one. With a shorter word list it might be quicker.
― In the wastelands of Birmingham and Manchester, massages are back (ledge), Friday, 2 July 2021 14:47 (two years ago) link
You’re gonna get sued
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Friday, 2 July 2021 14:49 (two years ago) link
yeah, lawyer up
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 2 July 2021 15:06 (two years ago) link
i can't even keep these cases straight. so many flaws in these grids
― Karl Malone, Friday, 2 July 2021 15:08 (two years ago) link
The machine got one! Took 45 minutes, still with the first word in the list in the first row, and the tenth word in the list in the second. It's all scrabble words...
AAHEDABASERAITAGYRONHASPS
― In the wastelands of Birmingham and Manchester, massages are back (ledge), Friday, 2 July 2021 15:20 (two years ago) link
those are all scrabble words?! i can play AARGH?!
that is very good to know :)
― Karl Malone, Friday, 2 July 2021 15:29 (two years ago) link
ILXXORLOL
― Mark G, Saturday, 3 July 2021 13:13 (two years ago) link
LOOROLL
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 3 July 2021 15:22 (two years ago) link
you lol now.
but wait until the settlement, which i will redistribute to "the good ilxors" as part of phase 1 of the long promised #PaymentForPosts platform
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Saturday, 3 July 2021 16:04 (two years ago) link
then posts will really start to count, as will my new IP-protected floating currency system
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Saturday, 3 July 2021 16:05 (two years ago) link
I have spent an unreasonable, indeed a ridiculous amount of time, and paper, trying to make a 6x6 grid but the best I can manage is ten words out of twelve. I have a sort of system to get that far but beyond that it's pot luck and I have no idea, if I keep trying, whether I'll hit on a solution imminently or if it will take a hundred years.
― In the wastelands of Birmingham and Manchester, massages are back (ledge), Tuesday, 6 July 2021 09:25 (two years ago) link
the flawless grid challenge has defeated all of you
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Monday, 2 August 2021 19:23 (two years ago) link
the flawless grid challenge is undefeated
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 22:14 (two years ago) link
I made this 4x4 one just now, my first go at it:
AREACHAITERMSANS
― Jimmy Iovine Eat World (bernard snowy), Thursday, 9 December 2021 13:59 (two years ago) link
https://www.famousbirthdays.com/headshots/rhea-perlman-7.jpg
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 9 December 2021 15:36 (two years ago) link
Also a genus of South American flightless birds!
― Jimmy Iovine Eat World (bernard snowy), Thursday, 9 December 2021 15:39 (two years ago) link
Tracer’s image is the Official image of the Flawless Grid Challenge
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 December 2021 15:54 (two years ago) link
nailed it
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 9 December 2021 16:34 (two years ago) link
the metadata description of the image is "betchu cain't do a 5x5!"
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 December 2021 16:48 (two years ago) link
I'll do a 6x6 one day...
― namaste darkness my old friend (ledge), Thursday, 9 December 2021 16:54 (two years ago) link
only the image has completed a flawless 6x6
it destroyed her
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 December 2021 17:03 (two years ago) link
wait that IS Carla! lol
only Carla from Cheers has done this
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 December 2021 17:04 (two years ago) link
Ended up using a couple of dubious Middle English words, but finished my first 5x5:
ZILCHESUREBLAINREUSEASSES
― Jimmy Iovine Eat World (bernard snowy), Thursday, 9 December 2021 19:00 (two years ago) link
the test is whether you would be willing to say each of the 25 words, out loud, to carla from cheers, with cliff and all the other regulars there to egg her on.
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 December 2021 19:26 (two years ago) link
i would start with Asses, but i'm not sure if i could say Blain to her. and Henes. however, even a Carla-violation 5x5 is a 5x5 nonetheless, congrats!
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 December 2021 19:27 (two years ago) link