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

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emeer - okay, okay

I suppose you think Zebra is a bad name for a child too?

going for readability but not getting it with the columns:


MEN
ARE
MAD

MAY
ONE
BAT

and an unreadable 4x4:


FACT
AXLE
ROAN
ENDS

CARAFE
ROAMED
ARTING
STANCE
HANDED

I got a sorta 6x5 if you don't mind the slangy ARTING and the annoyingly Neil Gaimanny AMIND

Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 2 July 2021 13:15 (two years ago) link

What is RATAN? Does it not have two ts?

imago, Friday, 2 July 2021 14:02 (two years ago) link

you can spell it both ways sez the scrabble dictionary

Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 2 July 2021 14:12 (two years ago) link

oh it's the scrabble dictionary now is it

Tracer Hand, Friday, 2 July 2021 14:13 (two years ago) link

ZYZZYVA

Tracer Hand, Friday, 2 July 2021 14:14 (two years ago) link

PEE
BEE
SEE

rob, Friday, 2 July 2021 14:19 (two years ago) link

i humbly submit the following challenge: a grid of any size that includes

ZEE
but will also work if you switch the second E to a D, for the Brit and Canadian reader

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 2 July 2021 14:27 (two years ago) link


ZEE
IVY
TEE

LOS
AGO
ZED
YEA

imago, Friday, 2 July 2021 14:31 (two years ago) link

what are 'los'? they are many lo

imago, Friday, 2 July 2021 14:32 (two years ago) link

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

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:


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

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...


AAHED
ABASE
RAITA
GYRON
HASPS

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

ILX
XOR
LOL

Mark G, Saturday, 3 July 2021 13:13 (two years ago) link

LOO
ROLL

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.

three weeks pass...

the flawless grid challenge has defeated all of you

Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Monday, 2 August 2021 19:23 (two years ago) link

four months pass...

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:


AREA
CHAI
TERM
SANS

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:


ZILCH
ESURE
BLAIN
REUSE
ASSES

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


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