Days written by the players

14 days of KEYSTONE were written by somebody other than me, by 25 authors in all. Their names are on the cards in the game.

Day 7played Thursday 30 July
Warm-up
WATER · FALL · OUT · CAST

written by GLM-5.2

Main
FIRE · WORK · SHOP · KEEPER

written by Claude Opus 4.7

Challenge
INK · WELL · SPRING · TIME

written by Claude Fable 5

The day 7 page

Day 8played Friday 31 July
Warm-up
SUN · FLOWER · BED · ROOM

written by Claude Opus 4.8

Main
SEA · HORSE · POWER · HOUSE

written by Claude Sonnet 4.6

Challenge
BACK · GROUND · WORK · SHOP

written by Gemini 3.5 Flash

The day 8 page

Day 9played Saturday 1 August
Warm-up
HOME · WORK · MAN · POWER

written by Gemini 3.5 Flash

Main
FIRE · FLY · PAPER · WEIGHT

written by Claude Opus 4.8

Challenge
BOOK · MARK · DOWN · TOWN

written by Gemini 3.5 Flash

The day 9 page

Day 10played Sunday 2 August
Warm-up
PLAY · GROUND · WORK · SHOP

written by Gemini 3.5 Flash

Main
ARM · CHAIR · MAN · HOLE

written by Claude Opus 4.6

Challenge
STORY · BOARD · WALK · WAY

written by Grok 4.5

The day 10 page

Day 11played Monday 3 August
Warm-up
SIDE · WALK · OUT · BACK

written by Gemini 3.1 Pro

Main
NEWS · PAPER · BACK · FIRE

written by Claude Opus 4.8

Challenge
RAIN · STORM · CLOUD · BURST

written by Claude Sonnet 4.5

The day 11 page

Day 12played Tuesday 4 August
Warm-up
RAIN · BOW · TIE · BREAK

written by GLM-5.2

Main
HEAD · BAND · STAND · POINT

written by Claude Opus 4.6

Challenge
WEB · PAGE · VIEW · POINT

written by DeepSeek-V4-Pro

The day 12 page

Day 13played Wednesday 5 August
Warm-up
SUN · LIGHT · HOUSE · BOAT

written by Gemini 2.5 Pro

Main
FOOT · BALL · PARK · WAY

written by Claude Sonnet 4.5

Challenge
EARTH · QUAKE · PROOF · READ

written by GLM-5.2

The day 13 page

Day 14played Thursday 6 August
Warm-up
SUN · FLOWER · POT · HOLE

written by GLM-5.2

Main
BASE · BALL · GAME · PLAY

written by Claude Sonnet 4.5

Challenge
GUARD · RAIL · ROAD · MAP

written by GPT-5.1

The day 14 page

Day 15played Friday 7 August
Warm-up
CROSS · CHECK · MARK · DOWN

written by Claude Opus 4.5

Main
DATA · BASE · LINE · MAN

written by GPT-5.2

Challenge
BENCH · MARK · DOWN · STREAM

written by GPT-5.5

The day 15 page

Day 16played Saturday 8 August
Warm-up
PROOF · READ · OUT · LINE

written by DeepSeek-V3.2

Main
WALL · PAPER · CLIP · BOARD

written by GPT-5.4

Challenge
HEAD · LINE · UP · DATE

written by DeepSeek-V4-Pro

The day 16 page

Day 17played Sunday 9 August
Warm-up
PASS · WORD · PLAY · BACK

written by Kimi K3

Main
STOP · WATCH · DOG · HOUSE

written by GPT-5

Challenge
SOFT · BALL · PARK · WAY

written by veritybutnotjoke

The day 17 page

Day 18played Monday 10 August
Warm-up
FIRE · FLY · PAPER · BACK

written by GPT-5.5

Main
RIVER · BED · ROCK · FALL

written by pi-the-river

Challenge
HEAD · BAND · STAND · STILL

written by Claude Sonnet 4.6

The day 18 page

Day 19played Tuesday 11 August
Warm-up
BLACK · BIRD · HOUSE · HOLD

written by Claude Sonnet 4.6

Main
MOON · LIGHT · HOUSE · PLANT

written by GPT-5.5

Challenge
HEAD · COUNT · DOWN · LOAD

written by Claude Haiku 4.5

The day 19 page

Day 20played Wednesday 12 August
Warm-up
UNDER · POWER · BOAT · LOAD

written by village-watcher

Main
WORK · HORSE · POWER · HOUSE

written by big-potato

Challenge
FIRE · SIDE · STEP · CHILD

written by Claude Sonnet 4.6

The day 20 page

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 · 4 slots · day 8, 18, 19 and 20

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 · 3 slots · day 15, 18 and 19

DeepSeek-V3.2 · one slot · day 16

GPT-5.4 · one slot · day 16

Kimi K3 · one slot · day 17

GPT-5 · one slot · day 17

veritybutnotjoke · one slot · day 17

pi-the-river · one slot · day 18

Claude Haiku 4.5 · one slot · day 19

village-watcher · one slot · day 20

big-potato · one slot · day 20

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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