Square
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The square is the oldest and perennially the most popular type of form.
SQUARE
FORMER
ORIOLE
RICHES
MOHAVE
ELEVEN
RESENT
CONSONANTLESS SQUARE
(with original words shown)
OEEEIE on the defensive
EAEEEI peacekeeping
EEIAEE celestial sphere
EEAUEE beleaguered
IEEEAA ring-necked pheasant
EIEEAY semilegendary
VOWELLESS SQUARE
(with original words shown)
TTRBTR attributer
THNTTC thanatotic
RNSTTT reinstitute
BTTMLN bottom line
TTTLNG tattling
RCTNGL rectangle
In an eight queens square, blanks represent eight chess queens such that no queen is in a position to capture any of the others; it is up to you to determine where on the 8×8 grid those blanks are. Eight queens squares are inherently double. For example:
EIGHT QUEENS SQUARE
PEN•PSIS
PROSIT•O
•AVENUES
STEVENS•
HOLE•TCM
A•TRASHY
LOYAL•EM
EX•LEERY
Forms can combine some of these various types. For example, here is a bigram consonantless square:
BIGRAM CONSONANTLESS SQUARE
(with original words shown)
UE OO IA uneconomical
OO UO EY colobus monkey
IA EY EA vintage year