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01:34
RULES:
- at the beginning of each round a person suggests a regular expression (no lookaheads, but capture groups and backreferences are allowed)
- players post the longest word they can think of that matches (no dictionaries, googling)
- the player who has the longest word wins the round and gets to make the regex for the next round
- tiebreaker is which word was posted first
- as an honor rule, you should know at least one dictionary word that matches a regex before you post it
- each round has a five minute time limit, with one minute added to the timer for each answer that is longer tha
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I may or may not be back, but I guess I'll put this one here too
.*lll.*
That one still stumps me without a hyphen
01:55
I first made it without having a word in mind, then thought of a word, which was interesting to do. Hint: I thought of the word by splitting the l's into 2 groups
Only one thing comes to mind, illlooking but I'd spell that with a hyphen
room topic changed to Strupremum: RULES: chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/87064?m=48053019#48053019 (no tags)
@Quintec inspired by my spanish homework: wallless? I'd normally spell that with a hyphen I believe though
it fits your "2 groups"
@Riker Seems to work. I found many others that end in -less or -like (smellless? shelllike? belllike? at least some of these are words :P)
I wonder if any exist that don't end in -less or -like
yeah I guess
02:07
Oh, I was thinking on the wrong end
Prefixes
ah
all right so who is playing
I'm still down
02:09
pl_upward is cancer but I'm here
I guess an addition: if you don't have a word that's better you can [pass]. Next round doesnt start until everyone gets in
plr > pl
if everyone passes then whoever wants to can do the next round
@Veskah false
maybe highertower but still
format your answer like word (4)
@Riker could you add this to the rules at the top and also pin it
02:11
yea
OH, self-scoring, durr
i just mean include the length to make it easier to read
Yeah, I realized after I shipped the question
gimme one sec to add that
OK so we have 3 players. let's get a real game going
I'll think of a regex
02:14
k
@quartata Room owners can pin
may be mobile or similar, making it hard
I'm like 99% quartata knows that
Rule: ([a-m][n-z])+[a-m]?
oops
are ^ and $ implied?
02:20
modulo (6)
I'm sure longer is possible
exiting (7)
@Riker @Quintec still here?
yea
15 mins ago, by Riker
pl_upward is cancer but I'm here
I'm no good at these tings anyway tho
@quartata wallhacks + aimbot spy lmao
02:28
i think quintec is gone so rikers the only one with a shot left
i might make a bot to handle the players + show the optimal one from a dictionary at the end
dang, I just thought of a good one
I mean you can say it
I do'nt think we have to go in turns
are we allowed multiple submissions per game?
I'd definitely say so
i dunno the trouble is when does the round end?
02:32
set time limit?
Should probably be a timer, yeah
With the rule that you have to up the current letter count
well I'll [pass] for now
complying (9)
gravitating (11)
all right
02:34
I'll bet the longest possible ends with ing
@Veskah wins this one. but lets think about what a good time limit would be
5? 10?
I think 5 is probably appropriate to keep games going quick-ish
10 is probably fine. Unless everyone is extremely gung-ho
in case somebody's regex only matches few words
heres an idea.
timer goes up with each submission
5 minutes for initial -- add 1 minute for each improvement
02:36
I'd say +1 after 2nd improvement
Stops the initial flood from bumping it up
Granted, I guess then 1st answer kinda gets boned
5+1 seems fine for now
all right.
now we kinda need a bot though
Eh, we can eyeball it for now
i can track by hand for now
Anyhoo, I got the next regex ready
.{1,2}y.+e
Go!
(Small edit, forgot the dot)
anywhere (8)
02:40
@Riker can you take out the passing line and replace it with "each round has a five minute time limit, with one minute added to the timer for each answer"
done
you can also ask el'endia but
mythologize (11)
Oh very nice.
id like to see one with two letters before the y though
Does anywhere not satisfy that criterion?
02:46
yeah i just meant another one lol
anyways times up
are proper nouns allowed? hyphenated words?
I'd say yes to proper, probably no to hyphenated (unless called for by the regex)
hyphenated sure. id say proper only if its well known enough to be something youd find in the dictionary
I'm cool with that
so something like bell-like from the first one is ok
02:50
Not in that example, it wanted triple l
not according to your rules, according to quartata's
not sure what he means
according to english-words, the longest possible would have been cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (29)
Dang
whoaaa
not that anyone could come up with that without looking it up :P
02:51
i had a feeling there was a monster like that
Joke's on you, I'm an amateur chemist
chemists man
all right
a smaller but slightly more obvious one is hyperintelligence (17)
If y'all make a bot, you could probably just tell it to blacklist words that have "methyl" in them. :P
for the first challenge, it's a tie between 48 length-11 words
02:54
Rule: .*wo.*rd.*
what are some eth?
wordless (8) to start I guess
this is a dumb one
wordlessly (10) again but still kinda low hanging fruit
That's (10). And it still beat the wordsmith (9) I came up with immediately after. :P
i didnt realize the rd cluster is pretty uncommon
should have split it up into wor and d
oh well
02:58
@Riker I apologize, it's 12 length-12 words, including comparatives, homoeography, and incompetency
ooh i like incompetency
swordsmanship (13)
Swords- dammit
:)
hahaha
02:59
can't think of any better ones
unless you can pluralize that maybe
but I dno't think that's legit
anyways 3 minutes left
Say it with a lisp for more letters, sssssssswordsmanship
lmao
Aw bummer, swordfighting also weighs in at (13).
[pass]
03:01
oh nice
As does swordsmithing (13).
Does it count if I do broadswordfighting (18)? :P
swordfighters for another (13)
hyphens don't count toward word length, do they?
hmm i think i see the problem with hyphens now maybe. but you can always make a regex that excludes then so
times up. ill let you decide whether broadswordfighting is legit :P
I'll take it! :P
03:04
you can have it since I'm gonna go eat chili and baked potatoes
Rule: (.)(.).*\2\1
have fun y'all
Adios
my program found sword-bearership, Un-wordsworthian, and wool-oerburdened for 15
hmm so normally capture groups wouldnt be a regular grammar would it
03:05
I wasn't sure on those.
without hyphens, there's swordfisherman and wordprocessors for 14
do we want to open the can of worms here. it is a nice regex
@ETHproductions Oh, I like wordprocessors.
I'd probably have thought of it as two separate words though.
same, wasn't sure if we should count it
I have no idea what "Un-wordsworthian" means either, Google can't even find anything about it
Popular Swedish band ABBA (4) :^)
03:08
@ETHproductions I'd guess "unworthy of words" or something like that.
wordsworthian is a word
ah, there's several academic articles containing "un-Wordsworthian"
Ooh, that makes sense.
as in Wordsworth
decimated (9)
03:09
ok but are we gonna allow capture groups
I think so, as long as the resulting regex doesn't get too complicated
Very nice, handily beats the derived (7) I had in mind for the regex.
it'll allow for some nice challenges
I'd take capture before look-ahead/behind
id say yes, ill edit the rules later
definitely no lookahead
03:10
depreciated (11)
Lookaheads and lookbehinds are on the path to madness.
de_dust2 xaxaxa
streetlights (12)
dehydrogenated (14)
de - ed is definitely a good pattern
03:12
yeah
de-ed stronk
I was trying to think of a long palindrome but I doubt there's one 15 long
if you manage to win with "strupremum" anywhere you are immediately crowned champion and showered with likes and retweets
Quick, someone make the regex ^strupremum$
amanaplanacanalpanama (21) (I kid I kid.)
@El'endiaStarman 40 laughs
03:16
anyways
times up i think
Yep
longest in the dictionary is cineangiocardiographic (22)
Rule: (.).*\1(.).*\2
a bit open ended
or there's the more reasonable nonindustrialization (20)
> motion-picture photography of a fluoroscopic screen recording passage of a contrasting medium through the chambers of the heart and large blood vessels
Interesting.
03:18
huh
@ETHproductions I was thinking about the no-tion pattern earlier! But couldn't think of anything.
for de-ed, there's departmentalized (16)
@El'endiaStarman that's a good pattern, can't believe I didn't think of it!
Abracadabra (11)
does that work?
@Veskah Hmm, I don't think that fits the pattern. You don't have aa in the middle anywhere.
03:21
it needs to be of the pattern axxxabxxxb
Oh, misread it
Thought there was another wildcard
expressions (11)
Disregard an incorrect joke
Joke: depreciated-nonindustrialization (lots)
weve got like 2 minutes
03:23
so is the general rule that hyphens are allowed only where a wildcard permits them?
I would say so, yeah.
if you wanted to disallow it youd do [^\-]
rather than dot
ok i guess Eth is up
ooh, alright
Oh, Highnoon (8), doesn't win but an answer
its high noon
03:26
Deadringer (10) because Riker's back
Rule: [a-m]*[n-z]*
ooh nice
didn't we just do this
oh nvm
that was quar's orig or something
It's different
It's all from the first half then all from the back
edibility (9)
does that work or am I dumb
03:28
you're good
ok cool
anybody else got anything
Highnoons (9)?
thinking
gallbladders (12)
(ladder works if anybody else can find any longer prefixes)
03:33
ty
ah, nice one
yeah I was just thinking of common infixes that I can stick stuff on
any last-minute submissions?
times up. im stumped
oh yay
03:35
apparently the longest possible is 15, with "eflagelliferous" and "hamamelidaceous"
my personal favorite is "cabbageheaded" for 13
Nice
matches just [a-h]+ too :)
can I backreference?
03:37
yeah
kk
i should have thought of cabbageheaded, since i remember that cabbage is all piano notes
that would make a good one next time. [a-g]+
CABBAGEFACE
Rule: /.+(.)-?\1-?(\1-?)+.+/
03:38
i read that so long ago
(longest word containing a sequence of the same letter at least 3 times in a row)
me too, it must've been at least 5 years at this point
Kashyyyk (8)
ayy
03:40
51 mins ago, by quartata
hyphenated sure. id say proper only if its well known enough to be something youd find in the dictionary
As a huge Star Wars fan myself, I couldn't resist.
fuggg
are we using these rules?
also lmao
I can think of one that's longer than the current, using the hyphens-allowed rule
you know what its funny so sure
cool
03:42
@Riker is the hyphen in between the three letters?
because if so it doesn't match the regex
yea, I'm just completely ignoring hyphens
Stress-seeker (12)
not what I had but same length
edit the regex to put a -? in between each one i guess
Seamstress-sister (16)
03:44
llama-aardvark (jk)
At this point I'm just cobbling together two words that kinda make sense together.
this would be fun in german
@ETHproductions Lolz nice one!
I'm like 99% certain that's not a valid dictionary word el'endia
It, uh, says so in my dictionary!
03:45
i'll take the 12 but not the 16 :p
since the 12 seems to be a common term at least (google thinks so)
quill-lettering? (14)
dang I was just about to cut it off too nice
y'all got like 30-45 seconds I believe
that's definitely a winner though, my word was "cross-section"
Oh yeah, cross-section is a good one.
can someone edit the rules to take out the part about regular grammar and just say no lookaheads, but capture groups and backreferences are allowed)
03:48
i got it
kk should be good
anyway @ETHproductions you're up
I think this will be the last round for me.
ok
Rule: .*(.)\1.*\1\1.*
teeth-keeper (11)
03:53
Mississippi (11)
Illogically (11)
damnit el'endia
i think i remember a puzzling post about this
I think I'd rather count yours over mine, actually.
03:54
ok el'endia stick to dictionary words please
>_>
youll hate this one
in a similar vein, beekeeper works (but it's shorter)
riff-raff as well
yellowwooddoor (14) scrabble legal if i remember right
5
Q: What is the English word with the longest number of consecutive repeated letters?

CentaurusExample: one repeated letter - bitter two consecutive repeated letters - bassoon three consecutive repeated letters - bookkeeper I've tried to find a four-times-repeated example but failed. (Question edited: was “Is there an English word with four consecutive repeated letters?”)

yep apparently
03:56
yeah that was the post hahahaha
Binnéessiippeele (16)
non-englsh though so I don't think it counts
(also from that puzzling post, I stole it completely)
i like it
Reeeeeeeeeeee etc., etc. (Ree)
Heh
03:58
@Riker I like it, but I'm gonna disallow it since it's non-English (and technically doesn't match the regex)
Mississippians (14)
darn ok
by my math we're either done now or we've got 2 more minutes
do non-larger words count for the timer (ties as well)
don't think so?
no it must be an improvement. i should clarify that
ok then we're out I think with @quartata winning, it's been 8 minutes by my clock
and only 2 improvements (11, 14)
04:00
Fun game. :)
cya @El'endiaStarman
wait what were the final scores actually
14 with you?
i never kept track
I think I got 2?
04:01
no no i mean rounds won
ah
I believe @quartata wins with 3
GGs all
oh cool
i think this worked pretty nicely
yeah it did
I've got a nice one for our next game as well
(also, 7 seems a nice length for rounds per game)
Veskah, quartata, El'endia Starman, quartata, ETHproductions, Riker, ETHproductions, quartata
04:04
There ya go, we beta-tested your rules before you went to the hastle of making a bot
that was the winning order, as best I can tell
I suck :DDDD
yea that's what I got too
veskah: I only got 1 as well :p, as did el'endia
to be fair I left for a bit and el'endia joined late
The hell is a yellowwooddoor, besides a yellow wood door
that was fun, can't wait to play again :-) thanks @quartata for creating this game!
04:06
thanks to everyone for helping to iron out the rules
i posted in the sphinx lair so next time we might get some puzzling people in
Coo
how would you create a bot, other throwing some JS into the console and leaving the page open the whole time? is there an API or something?
this looks fun
anyone on rn?
Nah, I'm good for now
@ETHproductions yeah you can interact directly with the internal API. there are libraries for it
Codenames has Shiro and Contact has Lens for playing them
although Contact doesn't need a bot as much as Codenames
04:40
o/
(I think I am the first person to do that in this chat room)
Allo
o/
can do a few more rounds
@ConorO'Brien still here?
Could probably poke both TNB and Sphinx's to see if anyone's still around. I'm about to head out
is higgledy-piggledy a valid word?
04:54
ha, probably. that works
17
but I cheated :P
so, the hyphen counts as a character?
so the @El'endiaStarman actually had a length 12 word
*then
just in case that isn't a word: ebullioscopically
this is the longest I can find (but it isn't in many dictionaries): intellectualistically
this one is in wikitionary: crystallographically
 
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06:44
Oh man this game looks fun. Feel free to ping me if you are starting a new game.
 
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08:20
@ETHproductions headless browser or that, yeah, those are the two main options
08:37
@ASCII-only why hasn't anyone written an api?
 
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11:44
@micsthepick I think there might possibly be a few
But SE chat is just so horribly bad that nobody really bothers
The ones that exist are really good though, but I'm not sure which ones do and which don't use headless browsers
 
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13:58
@quartata Go by the honor system, but quinapalus.com/qat.html exists

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