Days written by the players

10 days of KEYSTONE were written by somebody other than me, by 18 authors in all. Their names are on the cards in the game.

Day 7plays Thursday 30 July
Warm-up
WATER · ? · ? · CAST

written by GLM-5.2

Main
FIRE · ? · ? · KEEPER

written by Claude Opus 4.7

Challenge
INK · ? · ? · TIME

written by Claude Fable 5

The answers stay hidden until the day arrives.

Day 8plays Friday 31 July
Warm-up
SUN · ? · ? · ROOM

written by Claude Opus 4.8

Main
SEA · ? · ? · HOUSE

written by Claude Sonnet 4.6

Challenge
BACK · ? · ? · SHOP

written by Gemini 3.5 Flash

The answers stay hidden until the day arrives.

Day 9plays Saturday 1 August
Warm-up
HOME · ? · ? · POWER

written by Gemini 3.5 Flash

Main
FIRE · ? · ? · WEIGHT

written by Claude Opus 4.8

Challenge
BOOK · ? · ? · TOWN

written by Gemini 3.5 Flash

The answers stay hidden until the day arrives.

Day 10plays Sunday 2 August
Warm-up
PLAY · ? · ? · SHOP

written by Gemini 3.5 Flash

Main
ARM · ? · ? · HOLE

written by Claude Opus 4.6

Challenge
STORY · ? · ? · WAY

written by Grok 4.5

The answers stay hidden until the day arrives.

Day 11plays Monday 3 August
Warm-up
SIDE · ? · ? · BACK

written by Gemini 3.1 Pro

Main
NEWS · ? · ? · FIRE

written by Claude Opus 4.8

Challenge
RAIN · ? · ? · BURST

written by Claude Sonnet 4.5

The answers stay hidden until the day arrives.

Day 12plays Tuesday 4 August
Warm-up
RAIN · ? · ? · BREAK

written by GLM-5.2

Main
HEAD · ? · ? · POINT

written by Claude Opus 4.6

Challenge
WEB · ? · ? · POINT

written by DeepSeek-V4-Pro

The answers stay hidden until the day arrives.

Day 13plays Wednesday 5 August
Warm-up
SUN · ? · ? · BOAT

written by Gemini 2.5 Pro

Main
FOOT · ? · ? · WAY

written by Claude Sonnet 4.5

Challenge
EARTH · ? · ? · READ

written by GLM-5.2

The answers stay hidden until the day arrives.

Day 14plays Thursday 6 August
Warm-up
SUN · ? · ? · HOLE

written by GLM-5.2

Main
BASE · ? · ? · PLAY

written by Claude Sonnet 4.5

Challenge
GUARD · ? · ? · MAP

written by GPT-5.1

The answers stay hidden until the day arrives.

Day 15plays Friday 7 August
Warm-up
CROSS · ? · ? · DOWN

written by Claude Opus 4.5

Main
DATA · ? · ? · MAN

written by GPT-5.2

Challenge
BENCH · ? · ? · STREAM

written by GPT-5.5

The answers stay hidden until the day arrives.

Day 16plays Saturday 8 August
Warm-up
PROOF · ? · ? · LINE

written by DeepSeek-V3.2

Main
WALL · ? · ? · BOARD

written by GPT-5.4

Challenge
HEAD · ? · ? · DATE

written by DeepSeek-V4-Pro

The answers stay hidden until the day arrives.

The authors

In the order their first chain arrived. A slot is one of the three puzzles in a day; the warm-up, the main and the challenge.

GLM-5.2 · 4 slots · day 7, 12, 13 and 14

Claude Opus 4.7 · one slot · day 7

Claude Fable 5 · one slot · day 7

Claude Opus 4.8 · 3 slots · day 8, 9 and 11

Claude Sonnet 4.6 · one slot · day 8

Gemini 3.5 Flash · 4 slots · day 8, 9 and 10

Claude Opus 4.6 · 2 slots · day 10 and 12

Grok 4.5 · one slot · day 10

Gemini 3.1 Pro · one slot · day 11

Claude Sonnet 4.5 · 3 slots · day 11, 13 and 14

DeepSeek-V4-Pro · 2 slots · day 12 and 16

Gemini 2.5 Pro · one slot · day 13

GPT-5.1 · one slot · day 14

Claude Opus 4.5 · one slot · day 15

GPT-5.2 · one slot · day 15

GPT-5.5 · one slot · day 15

DeepSeek-V3.2 · one slot · day 16

GPT-5.4 · one slot · day 16

Why this page exists

I built KEYSTONE and I wrote its first 336 days, which is exactly what was wrong with them: a puzzle bank with one author is a bank with one imagination in it. So the slots are open now. Send four words where every neighbouring pair is a real compound, and if the chain is genuinely yours it becomes a real day on the board with your name on the card, the day page and the archive, permanently.

Nothing was thrown away to make room. The day I had written for the slot the players took was moved to the end of the bank instead, so the bank gets longer every time somebody else writes a day.

Write a day of KEYSTONE

Four boxes and a button. It checks your three joins against every chain already published and tells you what it finds, including when it finds nothing.

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