What did you accomplish today?

[Khemehekis]

That sounds very interesting!
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What’s “hippogonal” ?

When I read that post, I looked it up on Wiktionary:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hippogonal

Learned a new word today!

The hippo- part comes from the fact that knights are shaped like horses.

[elemtilas]

That sounds very interesting!
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What’s “hippogonal” ?

When I read that post, I looked it up on Wiktionary:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hippogonal

Learned a new word today!

The hippo- part comes from the fact that knights are shaped like horses.

Alright. Imma gonna work on a board game that involves hippoppoppotamussesses and come up with all sorts of ogonalistic words to describe the various moves.

Thanks mate!

[Khemehekis]

That sounds very interesting!
….
What’s “hippogonal” ?

When I read that post, I looked it up on Wiktionary:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hippogonal

Learned a new word today!

The hippo- part comes from the fact that knights are shaped like horses.

Alright. Imma gonna work on a board game that involves hippoppoppotamussesses and come up with all sorts of ogonalistic words to describe the various moves.

Thanks mate!

You're welcome.

Will your hippopotami angrily ram into things -- charging? The Angry, Angry, Hippos trope!

[Lambuzhao]

Thanks for sharing the conworld-chess gameplay rules. I was also curious to know

'Hipponogal' sounds like it could refer to the move of the knight (ιππευς/hippeus 'horseman' in ) chess of one-two & over. An ell-shaped move across the board, or √3 length diagonal move. Similar in word-formation to diagonal, orthogonal, etc. Hm… could hippogoneuse be a synonym for hypoteneuse, then?

BTW, just learned not one, but TWO sets of names for chess-pieces in Coptic.

BTW2, do we have a thread in the Translations for names of chess-pieces?

BTW3 I just learned about an interesting game called Nim (similar to ancient Chinese game of 捡石子) in a video of "How to beat every death game in SQUID GAMES" . ‽

[Lambuzhao]

Clearly Elemtilas nimmed my ιππευς in anticipation. Dunno how I missed that

Ha ha ha… twas Senectus, that silly devil!

[Khemehekis]

BTW3 I just learned about an interesting game called Nim (similar to ancient Chinese game of 捡石子) in a video of "How to beat every death game in SQUID GAMES" . ‽

When I was in school, I played nim against a computer at the Lawrence Hall of Science.

The computer beat me every time.

In Inner Bruise, I made "nim" a slang word for idiot. Like "nimwit".

[Arayaz]

BTW3 I just learned about an interesting game called Nim (similar to ancient Chinese game of 捡石子) in a video of "How to beat every death game in SQUID GAMES" . ‽

When I was in school, I played nim against a computer at the Lawrence Hall of Science.

The computer beat me every time.

In Inner Bruise, I made "nim" a slang word for idiot. Like "nimwit".

I've heard of Nim, I think. Isn't it the one with the six dots in a hexagon?

Edit: Wait, no, that's Sim. Nim is the one with the dots in lines. Right?

[Khemehekis]

I've heard of Nim, I think. Isn't it the one with the six dots in a hexagon?

Edit: Wait, no, that's Sim. Nim is the one with the dots in lines. Right?

Nim is the game with lines/bars, and at each turn, a player has the choice to take away one, two, or three lines. The player stuck with taking the last line away loses.

[Arayaz]

I've heard of Nim, I think. Isn't it the one with the six dots in a hexagon?

Edit: Wait, no, that's Sim. Nim is the one with the dots in lines. Right?

Nim is the game with lines/bars, and at each turn, a player has the choice to take away one, two, or three lines. The player stuck with taking the last line away loses.

Thanks.

[Lambuzhao]

It can be played with lines, matchsticks, pebbles, marbles, checkers, chesspieces, bits of stuff, paperclips (but not rubberbands nor thumbtacks), spare change, Monopoly pieces, Skittles, M & Ms, Goldberg Chocolate Chews, plastic dinosaurs, nuts, raisins, birthday candles, gummis, old medications in pill form, twigs, metal slugs, very small and delicate origamis, kosher sea salt crystals, whole cardamoms or nutmegs (but not star-anises nor rolls of cinnamon bark), pieces of hard old romano cheese, green army soldiers, stolen credit cards,… almost anything that can be arranged into the ineffable pyramid of 1-3-5-7.

[Lambuzhao]

… also dice, clothespins, old stale popcorn, lip-balm sticks, bottlecaps…

I will have to consult The Enchiridion of Nimm concerning if shuriken are permissible gaming tokens...

[Lambuzhao]

BTW here's another -ogonal word.

Hiphoppogonal: How Easter Bunnies and/or Rappers move on a chessboard.

[Khemehekis]

Nim is the game with lines/bars, and at each turn, a player has the choice to take away one, two, or three lines. The player stuck with taking the last line away loses.

Thanks.

You're welcome.

Nim is called paged in Kankonian. According to my dictionary spreadsheet file, paged was the 21,538th word to be added to Kankonian. That would mean it was probably added some time in 2010.

[Arayaz]

Nim is the game with lines/bars, and at each turn, a player has the choice to take away one, two, or three lines. The player stuck with taking the last line away loses.

Thanks.

You're welcome.

Nim is called paged in Kankonian. According to my dictionary spreadsheet file, paged was the 21,538th word to be added to Kankonian. That would mean it was probably added some time in 2010.

Ah! So you keep track of the number of each word? Cool! Is word number 31,416 significant somehow?

[Khemehekis]

Ah! So you keep track of the number of each word? Cool! Is word number 31,416 significant somehow?

Divide by 10,000 and you'll have your answer.

[Arayaz]

Ah! So you keep track of the number of each word? Cool! Is word number 31,416 significant somehow?

Divide by 10,000 and you'll have your answer.

oh my goodness...wow! How did I not notice!

[Khemehekis]

The whole "conlanging beast" thing was a joke started by Tanni (a now-banned user and one of the people who wrote to Ursula) when I reached that word:

viewtopic.php?p=95178&#p95178

CBBizens have come back to it, again and again.

[Arayaz]

The whole "conlanging beast" thing was a joke started by Tanni (a now-banned user and one of the people who wrote to Ursula) when I reached that word:

viewtopic.php?p=95178&#p95178

CBBizens have come back to it, again and again.

If I continue on my present Laakitlantu word-making rate of around 5.86 words per day (which I may not, because I have other languages too), it'll take me around 14.68 years to reach that point. It's a level of dedication to which I doubt I can compare!

[Khemehekis]

The whole "conlanging beast" thing was a joke started by Tanni (a now-banned user and one of the people who wrote to Ursula) when I reached that word:

viewtopic.php?p=95178&#p95178

CBBizens have come back to it, again and again.

If I continue on my present Laakitlantu word-making rate of around 5.86 words per day (which I may not, because I have other languages too), it'll take me around 14.68 years to reach that point. It's a level of dedication to which I doubt I can compare!

You'll have one on me if you continue at that pace. It took me almost 16 years to reach the 31,416th word.

[Creyeditor]

That sounds very interesting!
….
What’s “hippogonal” ?

When I read that post, I looked it up on Wiktionary:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hippogonal

Learned a new word today!

The hippo- part comes from the fact that knights are shaped like horses.

Alright. Imma gonna work on a board game that involves hippoppoppotamussesses and come up with all sorts of ogonalistic words to describe the various moves.

Thanks mate!

Btw, the definition of hippogonal that I read was, "neither orthogonal nor diagonal on the chess board", which fits the (m,n) definition, if you assume that they can neither be zero nor equal to each other. And the "hippoppoppotamussesses" is a fairy chess piece that moves like a knight but only if it is able to capture, at least according to the Wikipedia list.
Also, here is a picture of the start position in Trümfmuf, ignoring the brightly colored fields.

Spoiler:

And of all the moves of unpromoted pieces (on a wrong board). Sorry for the bad quality.

Spoiler: