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
How is "rager" bullshit??
― emil.y, Thursday, 1 July 2021 20:09 (two years ago) link
i went to enough ragers to not be able to fully complete a 5x4 flawless grid, that's for sure
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 July 2021 20:10 (two years ago) link
― 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
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Thursday, 1 July 2021 20:15 (two years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 July 2021 20:17 (two years ago) link
CHALPAORALLOTTAYEAHSXYLEM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aoral_Districthttps://www.thefreedictionary.com/artalhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Chalp
I do not expect to be understood, nor liked, nor celebrated
― imago, Thursday, 1 July 2021 20:28 (two years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 July 2021 20:35 (two years ago) link
it's not about the people or the friendships we made along the way, it is about money and IP
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 July 2021 20:38 (two years ago) link
GOINGBOINGBEINGhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/veingVEINSREINSRAINS PAINSPAINTPOINThttps://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mointMOUNTCOUNT COURT
― imago, Thursday, 1 July 2021 20:52 (two years ago) link
my diagonals btw
https://patex.com.pk/https://cothm.edu.pk/
BOTH PAKISTANI. coincidence? or there is a deeper intelligence at play?
― imago, Thursday, 1 July 2021 20:58 (two years ago) link
i am adding the cost of my blown whistle to the charges
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 July 2021 21:01 (two years ago) link
the cost of my blown whistle: a life of puzzles, profits, pyramid schemes, and prosecutions
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 July 2021 21:03 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/pbPcfF7.jpg
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Thursday, 1 July 2021 21:19 (two years ago) link
uuuuuugh, that's frustrating
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 July 2021 21:48 (two years ago) link
C R A F TR A Z O RA Z U R EP O R T SS R E S S
Goldarn it, so close
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 1 July 2021 22:00 (two years ago) link
I should've gone with CRAPD and then made forceful, hysterical arguments about its common usage
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 1 July 2021 22:03 (two years ago) link
sressful game :(
― jmm, Thursday, 1 July 2021 22:04 (two years ago) link
costs have to be cut somewhere to be profitable, and i'm not going to be nice and lose money at the same time
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 July 2021 22:12 (two years ago) link
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
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 1 July 2021 22:15 (two years ago) link
i was really close to a 5x4, but then the browser ate it (i swear!). but i think it was close to this:
COASTARIASSANTAELTER
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 July 2021 22:20 (two years ago) link
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
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Thursday, 1 July 2021 22:20 (two years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 July 2021 22:22 (two years ago) link
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
hey y'all i had to depart from the digital world to deal with some irl responsibilities but i admire all the great efforts here except imago's disrespectful mockery of The Beautiful Game.
To answer unregistered's question, i will be honest and say that my diagonal GAITS was unintentional and unnoticed! But I will take any accolades that accompany it. Some of the greatest achievements are unintentional, I believe we call it "pulling a Homer"
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 1 July 2021 22:46 (two years ago) link
km happy to hear your law practice is booming so hard. i just hope it doesn't get to the point where the Flawless Grid Challenge really only exists to support the legal practice, you don't want to end up a patent troll
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 1 July 2021 22:47 (two years ago) link
D I A C TU M B R A C A R O LA G O R A T O N E R
I did not start with it, I swear.
― They do the Shug a loo, do the Shy Tuna, do the Kemba Walker (fionnland), Thursday, 1 July 2021 23:18 (two years ago) link
C U M
― ✖, Thursday, 1 July 2021 23:59 (two years ago) link
can i get the 3x1 bolded please
first cum, by ✖
― Karl Malone, Friday, 2 July 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
:p
― Karl Malone, Friday, 2 July 2021 00:02 (two years ago) link
god that feels good
― ✖, Friday, 2 July 2021 00:02 (two years ago) link
you must be able to say the words in a sentence
if you're not too fussy about it, literally any set of words, however many or diverse, could be placed into the confines of one grammatical English sentence. It would require a strategy that would amount to cheating in most people's minds, but would not disqualify it as grammatical English. It would even have a meaning after a fashion, albeit an extremely dull and annoying meaning. For example:
The words frog, capstan, oligarchic, tenth, and longitudinal can all be found in an unabridged English dictionary.
― it is to laugh, like so, ha! (Aimless), Friday, 2 July 2021 00:09 (two years ago) link
on the other hand, if you're not too fussy with it, that totally doesn't count come on!!
― Karl Malone, Friday, 2 July 2021 00:10 (two years ago) link
the game is just fucking it's over. it's fucking OVER
― Karl Malone, Friday, 2 July 2021 05:45 (two years ago) link
Karl want you to know I wrote a whole computer program tonight and it was not a solution to the flawless grid challenge
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Friday, 2 July 2021 05:45 (two years ago) link
:D
I can't believe you found something more profitable to work on
― Karl Malone, Friday, 2 July 2021 05:52 (two years ago) link
$25 cheap, death to open source https://silby.itch.io/abort-retry-fail
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Friday, 2 July 2021 05:53 (two years ago) link
$255x5InterestingAnd yet you deny all influence
― Karl Malone, Friday, 2 July 2021 06:01 (two years ago) link
Luckily this thread was started just as I finished work and just before I had to do the kids bedtime and get things ready for a birthday party, or I might have pissed away more minutes of my life on fruitless activities. Nevertheless I tried in the few spare minutes I had to come up with something with my daughters names in using just pencil and paper, and failed. Hit the word lists this morning and succeeded but maybe I'll try another one without EDEMA (scarcely better than enema) or LARDS.
HAZELEDEMAAMBERTIREDSTARS
― In the wastelands of Birmingham and Manchester, massages are back (ledge), Friday, 2 July 2021 08:46 (two years ago) link
emeer - okay, okay
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 2 July 2021 09:34 (two years ago) link