Flawless grid Challenge - the game that was invented in less than 10 seconds and sucks

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

T O
O N

I don't understand what makes the successful grids itt non-flawless

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

I don't understand what makes the successful grids itt non-flawless

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:

FROM
RAPE
ERAS
EELS

TARTE
AGAIN
RAGED
SEERS

Agae and maybe Tarte are letting me down

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

Agae, how dreadfully marvellous, that's the plural of Aga

Is a sentence just the stacked words or the stacked words and then also the columned words

oh damn a hoy hoy, first venture out into "beyond four"
died at sea, i'm afraid, as it does NOT qualify.

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

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

This is so hard

5x5 crazy hard

working on 5x5's has legitimately made me insane

thanks karl

i'm getting close on a 5x4

not that i play

ladies and gentlemen

it killed my afternoon, but

G R A N D
R A G E R
A R I S E
M E L T S
P R E S S

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

the key for me was avoid all vowels except A & E, and even A in final lines, and maximize S and R. next question

i get it, you're all speechless

!!

first 5x5 completion, Lavator Shemmelpennick
first successful appeal after being sued in this thread, Lavator Shemmelpennick

just astonishing

Haven't tried my hand at 5x5 yet but I bet it's incredibly tough - congrats, LS!

RAGER is some bullshit. Yours, a competitor

before i post mine, how do we feel about the word vorst

How is "rager" bullshit??

i went to enough ragers to not be able to fully complete a 5x4 flawless grid, that's for sure

G R A N D
R A G E R
A R I S E
M E L T S
P R E S S

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, July 1, 2021 3:54 PM (nineteen minutes ago)

was the diagonal word (GAITS) intentional, or was that just the universe rewarding you for your efforts? mad props either way

O_O

*AIRHORN*

that's the first 5x5 single-cross-word DLC, Lavator Shemmelpennick, who many are saying is the figurehead of a profitable movement

CHALP
AORAL
LOTTA
YEAHS
XYLEM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aoral_District
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/artal
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Chalp

I do not expect to be understood, nor liked, nor celebrated

i'm afraid it is much worse, imago. far from being celebrated, your grid is NOT RECOGNIZED as it is DISQUALIFIED, and i suggest we both look up international law because we're going to court

it's not about the people or the friendships we made along the way, it is about money and IP

GOING
BOING
BEING
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/veing
VEINS
REINS
RAINS
PAINS
PAINT
POINT
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=moint
MOUNT
COUNT
COURT

my diagonals btw

https://patex.com.pk/
https://cothm.edu.pk/

BOTH PAKISTANI. coincidence? or there is a deeper intelligence at play?

i am adding the cost of my blown whistle to the charges

the cost of my blown whistle: a life of puzzles, profits, pyramid schemes, and prosecutions

https://i.imgur.com/pbPcfF7.jpg

uuuuuugh, that's frustrating

C R A F T
R A Z O R
A Z U R E
P O R T S
S R E S S

Goldarn it, so close

I should've gone with CRAPD and then made forceful, hysterical arguments about its common usage

sressful game :(

costs have to be cut somewhere to be profitable, and i'm not going to be nice and lose money at the same time

is this what they do at MENSA? they complain about how hard the puzzles are? i wouldn't know -- i wasn't even asked to join MENSA. and i didn't even want to in the first place. so who knows what they do in there.

I'd like to see you try your hand at this Karl... you talk mighty big, show us what you got

i was really close to a 5x4, but then the browser ate it (i swear!). but i think it was close to this:

COAST
ARIAS
SANTA
ELTER

also, those of you who know how to program and write functions - please don't do that to immediately come up with all solutions. or i will sue your ass

― Karl Malone, Thursday, July 1, 2021 8:56 AM (six hours ago)

I might

if this was a big reddit or something, i bet someone already would have done it. not that i know how, of course, i just know there are whiz-kids

i would be making flawless grids with ease but for all these lawyer phone calls i have to field regarding how much we should sue for

Ended up using a couple of dubious Middle English words, but finished my first 5x5:

ZILCH
ESURE
BLAIN
REUSE
ASSES

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.

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!