Post making contest 3.0

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Passes 2 and 5

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Reality Forge

aaaaa Reality Forge

aaaaaReality Forge

wxyzyxw

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passes rule 3

Reality Forge

passes rule 2

aaaaa Reality Forge

passes no rules

aaaaaReality Forge

passes no rules

wxyzyxw

passes rule 5

PeanutButterChocolateBar MotherFucker

Oneiric

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You know what it's time for?

/‎m‎e slides qwerx3 one whole dollar.

"You know, this post passes every rule, right?"

Enough gerrymandering!

*slides qwerx3 TWO dollars*

this post passes the laws of physics.

*slides qwerx3 another dollar*

don't tell anyone i said that

This is update #155.

The Mongolian Space Consortium rolled its keshiks into London purely so that I could rename it to Lubrication, and that's all you need to know about how our game went.

(I may well have claimed victory had we played it out, but only two out of six of us were in any position to win, hence we gave up)

End of message.

I do not know rule 1.

*slides qwerx3 TWO dollars*

Well, look at mister moneybags over here. Two whole dollars.

PeanutButterChocolateBar MotherFucker

Passes no rules

Oneiric

Passes 2 and 5

aaaaa

Passes no rules

You know what it's time for?

/‎m‎e slides qwerx3 one whole dollar.

"You know, this post passes every rule, right?"

This post passes no rules

Enough gerrymandering!

*slides qwerx3 TWO dollars*

this post passes the laws of physics.

*slides qwerx3 another dollar*

don't tell anyone i said that

Cool, a dollar more buys you passing rule 1

This is update #155.

The Mongolian Space Consortium rolled its keshiks into London purely so that I could rename it to Lubrication, and that's all you need to know about how our game went.

(I may well have claimed victory had we played it out, but only two out of six of us were in any position to win, hence we gave up)

End of message.

passes no rules

I do not know rule 1.

passes no rules

*slides qwerx3 TWO dollars*

Well, look at mister moneybags over here. Two whole dollars.

passes no rules

Okay, heads up, serious times - I got rule 1, but in order for Aks to make the winning post I've ceded to him, we need you all to not post in the thread for an hour. Because that's rule 1 - post must be made at least an hour after that last. You can go and check if you like, it's bloody brilliant. So, yeah, the only winning move is not to post! If we could all keep quiet now, we can defeat this ruleset with minimal hassle! I'll see you all on the other side...

i guess MONEY TALKS, EH KIEROS

*slides THREE dollars... to no one in particular. It disappears anyway.*

*come to think of it, Credit thinks someone simply just robbed him of the three dollars*

For only sheqels, codgers, view the expert zither jive! God bless the post inventing contest.

laughing and laughing

and laughing and

CrimsonMage are you prepared to go next?

Oh! Sure, I can do that.

I'm going back to giving a single hint for each rule like Kaynato's ruleset around 50 pages ago because that's when I made this ruleset. Nothing here should take years to figure out, but what do I know, maybe I've accidentally made the worst rule ever. So, without further ado, the five rules!

Rule 1: Creativity
Rule 2: Two-Faced
Rule 3: Matrix
Rule 4: Give Up
Rule 5: Copycat

This post passes no rules!

i guess MONEY TALKS, EH KIEROS

*slides THREE dollars... to no one in particular. It disappears anyway.*

*come to think of it, Credit thinks someone simply just robbed him of the three dollars*

This post passes no rules...

For only sheqels, codgers, view the expert zither jive! God bless the post inventing contest.

This post passes all of the rules!

RULES

1. Patience: This rule is passed if at least 1 hour has elapsed between this post and the previous one.

2. English: All words (defined to be a run of alphabetic characters delimited by nonalphabetic characters) in post must be Scrabble-legal. Words are checked using OWL2.

NOTE: single letter words are not scrabble legal. Usernames are probably not scrabble-legal either.
NOTE: Substitutions like h3llo will be judged as H, LLO (neither which are scrabble-legal)

3. Multiplication/Division: Total post length, in characters, must be a factor of the post count number.

Character count will be determined as follows: quote tags will only have the characters inside the quote tag counted; for pictures a rough approximation will be attempted; also invisible characters are ignored. Emoticons count as their original unexpanded form.

4. Addition: Post must contain every letter not contained in poster's username

Patch: If a letter is impossible to satisfy both 2 and 5 simultaneously, you do not have to post that letter.

e.g. There are no scrabble legal words containing a Q but no letters from CRIMSONMAGE, so CrimsonMage does not need to post a word containing Q. (He can still post Q without breaking 4 - though one of 2 and 5 would certainly fail.)

5. Subtraction: Post must not contain any letter contained in poster's username


Commentary

Merged Multiplication and Division because I get only 5 rules.
Originally P and E were supposed to be Parentheses and Exponentiation, but I couldn't think of something good for Exponentiation, and the Parentheses rule was pretty artificial (although I might save it for a later round).

Definitely, the new P is much better. My goal was to make each rule individually easy to pass but require good understanding of all the rules in order to pass them all simultaneously (especially rules 2, 4 and 5)

Important events

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SpoilerROUND START #6019
RULE 5 FIRST PASSED #6021 (Akumu)
RULE 4 FIRST PASSED #6027 (CrimsonMage)
RULE 2 FIRST PASSED #6032 (Reecer6)

FIRST POST TO PASS 2 AND 4 TOGETHER
FIRST POST TO PASS TWO RULES #6035 (CrimsonMage)

FIRST POST TO PASS 3 AND 5 TOGETHER
RULE 3 FIRST PASSED #6045 (SeaWyrm)

FIRST POST TO PASS 1 AND 4 TOGETHER
RULE 1 FIRST PASSED #6066 (SeaWyrm)

FIRST POST TO PASS 2 AND 5 TOGETHER #6081 (CrimsonMage)

FIRST POST TO PASS 2 AND 3 TOGETHER
FIRST POST TO PASS 2,3,5 TRIPLE
FIRST POST TO PASS THREE RULES #6093 (Kíeros)

FIRST POST TO PASS 1 AND 2 TOGETHER #6114 (CrimsonMage)

'0 w0' FIRST SEEN #6168 (Akumu)

FIRST POST TO PASS 4 AND 5 TOGETHER #6208 (Ixcaliber)
[full understanding of 4 and 5 around here]

FIRST POST TO PASS 2,4,5 TRIPLE #6211 (Ixcaliber)
#6225 (Akumu)
#6236 (Sruixan)
[rule 2 details figured out]

SRUIX POSTS THE ALPHABET #6255-6292 (Sruixan)

'(0 w0)' INVASION #6336-6348 (Akumu, Kaynato)

KAYNATO POSTS CODE #6373 (Kaynato)

FIRST POST TO PASS 3 AND 4 TOGETHER
FIRST POST TO PASS 2,3,4 TRIPLE
FIRST POST TO PASS 3,4,5 TRIPLE
FIRST POST TO PASS FOUR RULES #6380 (Akumu)
[rule 3 figured out]

FIRST POST TO PASS 1 AND 3 TOGETHER #6386 (CrimsonMage)

DEFINITELY BRIBERY #6409-6410 (Kíeros, ICan'tGiveCredit)

RULE 1 FIGURED OUT, POST POLICE POST ~#6415 (Sruixan)
lol #6416 (ICan'tGiveCredit)

FIRST POST TO PASS 1 AND 5 TOGETHER
FIRST POST TO PASS 1 AND TWO OTHER RULES TOGETHER (123 124 125 134 135 145)
FIRST POST TO PASS 1 AND THREE OTHER RULES TOGETHER (1234 1235 1245 1345)
ALL RULES PASSED! #6417 (Akumu)

ROUND END #6422