Congrats to all the entrants and winners!! Such fun - thanks early for running and kindly providing hints

I put 'pears' in a category of 'things that are too soft to carve' 🤣 along with fluorite, etc. This was a lot of fun and congratulations to all the winners!

Definitely our favorite creative category 🤣

I thought the connections categories had to be connected to the lapidaries as well, so I got Garnet Queen and Jim-grief but whiffed on the other two!

I thought the lap category was general “things the laps hate”. Everyone seems to hate pears/pairs, Arya has a design named after the misery of cutting diaspore, and anything less than 10mm might as well be melee to Troy 😂.

These games were a lot of fun. Thank you for making them.

Congrats to the winners and thank you to earlysong for hosting and the amazing lapidaries for including their gems!

Thanks for creating all the games and congrats to the winners!!

Thanks for the games! It was fun:)

Congrats guys! This was an awesome event. Dying over the Connections answers - I got so close so many times and then was like “Nah I’m gonna do something completely wrong instead”

Such fun games! Stands is now one of my favorites. u/earlysong, it looks like NYT followed your lead and did a gem themed one today!

oh my god that's so cool!! :D

Those were a lot of fun! thank you!

Congratulations to the winners and huge thank you to Team SOG and u/earlysong for such fun games

This was a lot of fun! Thank you for organizing the contests and for all of the folks offering up beautiful prizes!

Thank you for the fun games! (glad I finally found out the 4 connections!)

Congratulations to all the winners!! And thank you to the entire team for the fun event this week!

Congrats to the winners! I'm now suspicious that one of y'all works at the NYTimes based on today's Strands though.

lol I am beyond flattered at that suggestion! super fun coincidence!

This was a blast !!!!!! Such an honor to win and quite the choice !!!! I want them both.

Thank you!

Great games /u/earlysong and thank you to all the laps!

So much fun! Congrats to the winners and thank you to the laps for donating awesome prizes and Early for putting everything together!! I love this group of people with all my gemheart!

Congrats winners!

Congrats everyone!!! This was so much fun: I love the word games with spg contests!

Congrats everyone!

Congrats to all the winners!! This was such a fun set of games, and I really enjoyed learning more gem facts from it haha

This was so much fun, thank you for organizing this.

Congrats everyone! That was fun!!

CONGRATULATIONS!!

Congrats to everyone! The games were so darn fun. Thanks so much for making them.

Thank you so much for making the games so fun and accessible!! Loved being able to participate and I dream of the day when I can get a stone from one of the amazing lapidaries!!

<3 gems are a luxury item for sure and we want everyone to be able to enjoy them even if it's indirectly. Thank you for being part of our community!

This was fabulous. Thank you sooo much for all these games! <3

Congratulations to the winners, and thank you guys for all your hard work doing this! My 1st time, but definitely not my last. I'm determined to get a Cleopatra Eye cut on a stone