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

i like jmm's

FROM
RAPE
ERAS
EELS

Jmm's makes good thematic sense but not a sentence. I think johnny crunch has hit something? "From rape eras, eels free rare opal mess" might not be that meaningful, but it's a sentence!

emil.y - how about

SCAM
HARE
OPEN
DEAD

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

Why'd you have to start threads like this at the most inconvenient time.

FACE
ACHE
DIAL
ODDS

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Sator_Square_at_Opp%C3%A8de.jpg/220px-Sator_Square_at_Opp%C3%A8de.jpg

PALE
OPEN
DEAD

-- emil.y

first qualifying 4x3 grid

C L A P
R A G E
A M E N
W E S T

first qualifying 4x3 grid

^^^ shit! i meant first qualifying 4x4 grid!!! ^^^

this is hard work for me, making this money

FROM
RAPE
ERAS
EELS

― 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)

B A L M
A R E A
L I N T
E A T S

that grid looks like it was strategically created! :)

Augh, this is hard. You become attached to certain words and create your own problems.

the first person to solve each successively larger stage of the problem will be rewarded with a thin mint

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

we've got a 4x4, can i get a 4x5? do we have a 4x5?? *gets mint out of bag*

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

first attempt at concept grid, Lavator Shemmelpennick

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

first person to get sued for defamation on this thread, Lavator Shemmelpennick

i won't back down until you break a new record for real

oh shit. working on it

to those who are angry about the legal system - what you got a better idea? until then, let's expand the grid

*idly eats thin mints*

IDLY
EATS
THIN
MINT

*broken whistle sound*

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

ZEE
IVY
TEE

LOS
AGO
ZED
YEA

what are 'los'? they are many lo

Service Oriented Enterprise Architecture?

I've been toying with ogee for a while.

nice, ledge!!! I'll wait for km to provide the official bold text, should he so choose

I wrote something to generate a five by five list. After thinking for a few minutes it spat out this:

AAHED
ABACI
HAOLE
ECLAT
DIETS

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.

You’re gonna get sued

yeah, lawyer up

i can't even keep these cases straight. so many flaws in these grids

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...

AAHED
ABASE
RAITA
GYRON
HASPS

those are all scrabble words?! i can play AARGH?!

that is very good to know :)

ILX
XOR
LOL

LOO
ROLL

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

then posts will really start to count, as will my new IP-protected floating currency system

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.

the flawless grid challenge has defeated all of you

the flawless grid challenge is undefeated

I made this 4x4 one just now, my first go at it:

AREA
CHAI
TERM
SANS

https://www.famousbirthdays.com/headshots/rhea-perlman-7.jpg

Also a genus of South American flightless birds!

Tracer’s image is the Official image of the Flawless Grid Challenge

nailed it

the metadata description of the image is "betchu cain't do a 5x5!"

I'll do a 6x6 one day...

only the image has completed a flawless 6x6

it destroyed her

wait that IS Carla! lol

only Carla from Cheers has done this

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!