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Posted: **December 31st, 2025, 10:32 am**

(Well, It's already 2026 in some place, so I posted this thread.)

Rules from this 2018 thread apply. In essence: nominations should be interesting and nontrivial, and they should be from the 2025 calendar year (UTC).

Nominations will close when the voting thread is created, which won't happen until June 1st, 2026 at earliest.

It would be appreciated if you include a short description for each of your nominations to explain why they may be interesting to others.

Posted: **December 31st, 2025, 12:02 pm**

Two of your years seem to be off by one. I assume the discoveries need to be from 2025 and voting will start in 2026?

Unrelated, but I also think 5 months is way too long of a wait; people will forget what happened in 2025.

Posted: **December 31st, 2025, 12:17 pm**

hotdogPi wrote: December 31st, 2025, 12:02 pm Two of your years seem to be off by one. I assume the discoveries need to be from 2025 and voting will start in 2026?

Thanks, at the time between 2 year, I always get confused. I think i fixed that.

hotdogPi wrote: December 31st, 2025, 12:02 pm Unrelated, but I also think 5 months is way too long of a wait; people will forget what happened in 2025.

Last year's voting starts also on June, so why too long?

Anyway, to keep it ontopic, here's nominations' names that's made by myself:

HexaSmodel rule: first infinite nested SMOSMOS...MOS on a hexagonal grid in 32 states
TNT: first OCA recreation of APGsembly and a lot of other things engineered
ugh i can't remember more...

Posted: **December 31st, 2025, 1:50 pm**

B2-ak3ce4eikqrz5-iknq6-ek8/S1c2aek3aekn4eiknry5eiky6-ei7c8: A rule with more than 1100 NRSS (nonadjustable reduced speed of ship).

Posted: **January 1st, 2026, 5:07 am**

The first SMOSMOSMOS in INT - Ampere
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3071&start=250#p210748
INT SMOS made of three separate 2 ship interactions - yaochen2
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3071&start=300#p218720
This 2c/21,712,240,845o Ship which is the first nonadjustable ship in INT over period 10 billion - NimbleRogue
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=6649&p=216034#p216034
The INT rule with the second most known NRSS and the most NRSS slopes - FWKnightship
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=6458&start=75#p217084
Unstable version of B23/S2V that can move its bounding box - Sylvie
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1971&p=217741#p217741

Posted: **January 1st, 2026, 5:28 pm**

corderization of small 20c/44 engine in B3468/S0357 viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1074&p=214513#p214513
(by confocaloid) glider extraction from (B3/S023) DotLife flotillae: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1798&p=219626#p219626
(May13, et al) amongst several new hexagonail spaceships, there is an oblique one in outer/totalistic hexagonal rule B256/S256H: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3670&p=223029#p223007
strongly based on Layz Boi's contribution - B34/S0134V von Neumann n.h. CA in 2 dimension and as a corollary several relative rules in higher dimensions are Turing-complete, due to this Rule-110 unit cell: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2597&p=223249#p223249

Posted: **January 1st, 2026, 9:18 pm**

islptng’s 256c/544330d geminoid in T and Tub, along with 128c/28024o orthogonoid. (First nomination I’ve done, so might have got things wrong). Link: https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopi ... 56#p212113

Posted: **January 5th, 2026, 9:06 am**

TTs, a Turing-Complete margolus supporting 2TFL rule with known p3, p5, p7, p8, and p11 reflectors of the 'T' spaceship. The most recent version of the full stamp collection can be found at User:PK22/OCA:Travelling Ts/Full Stamp Collection This is outdated. 2 important things it does not include are the 3c/8 distaff and the most recent version of the quadratic growth pattern. I will try to make the collection before OCA DOTY 2025 voting.
EDITED x2

Posted: **January 12th, 2026, 8:40 pm**

I nominate my other SMOSMOSMOSes:
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3071&p=212971#p212971
These should be added to the nomination of the first SMOSMOSMOS.

Posted: **March 23rd, 2026, 4:23 pm**

Nominating my OCA rule Checkerboard, Day and Night, with the initial post on Jan 8:

R2INT wrote: January 8th, 2025, 2:22 pm I have recently been experimenting with rules that are not only self-complimentary, behaving the same way in both black and white universes, but also checkerboard-complimentary, meaning they also behave the same in a checkerboarded universe. Here is a sample soup of the rule:
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#R B2en3cin4aciknqt5eny6ikn78/S2-ikn3-eny4cjnqyz5-cin6-en78
!
# [[ RANDOMIZE ]]
[...]

The thread for exploration of that rule is at viewtopic.php?f=11&t=7050. I have used the p34 to construct technologies such as splitters and NAND gates.
This rule is interesting because all patterns behave the same way when XOR pasted onto a checkerboard agar.

Posted: **August 27th, 2026, 6:19 am**

Is the voting going to start soon?
Nobody has made any nominations for a while, so if you want your pattern to be the OCA discovery of the year, you should do it now!

Posted: **September 7th, 2026, 2:03 pm**

NNlk05 wrote: August 31st, 2026, 2:29 pm
ThePlayzr wrote: August 27th, 2026, 6:19 am Is the voting going to start soon?
Nobody has made any nominations for a while, so if you want your pattern to be the OCA discovery of the year, you should do it now!
Here you go. It's almost September now, so I may as well start it.

Entries

#1 HexaSmodel (islptng)
First infinite nested SMOSMOS...MOS on a hexagonal grid in 32 states

#2 T-and-Tub (B2cik3-cijn4cknqr5-anqy6ekn7/S1c2acn3-aijq4cjktw5ejny6aen7c8)
(islptng, H. H. P. M. P. Cole, hibiscus, Disaster16439, I6_I6, R2INT, and others.)
First OCA recreation of APGsembly and a lot of other things engineered (i.e., a gemoid)

#3 B2-ak3ce4eikqrz5-iknq6-ek8/S1c2aek3aekn4eiknry5eiky6-ei7c8
(Yujh, NimbleRogue, vilc, WhiteHawk, unix with clock, R2INT, FWKnightship, b-engine, et al.)
A rule with more than 1100 NRSS (nonadjustable reduced speed of ship).

#4 viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3071&start=250#p210748 (AforAmpere)
The first SMOSMOSMOS in INT.

#5 viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3071&start=300#p218720 (yaochen2)
INT SMOS made of three separate 2-ship interactions.

#6 viewtopic.php?f=11&t=6649&p=216034#p216034 (NimbleRogue)
First nonadjustable ship in INT over a period of 10 billion.

#7 viewtopic.php?f=11&t=6458&start=75#p217084 (FWKnightship)
The INT rule with the second most-known NRSS and the most NRSS slopes.

#8 viewtopic.php?f=11&t=6458&start=75#p217 ... 41#p217741 (Kathina)
Unstable version of B23/S2V that can move its bounding box

#10 viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1074&p=214513#p214513 (Naszvadi)
Corderization of small 20c/44 engine in B3468/S0357

#11 viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1798&p=219626#p219626 (confocaloid)
Glider extraction from (B3/S023) DotLife flotillae.

#12 viewtopic.php?t=3670 (Various)
Several new hexagonal spaceships, with an oblique one in the outer totalistic hexagonal rule B256/S256H.

#13 viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2597&p=223249#p223249 (Lazy Boi, Naszvadi)
Turing Completeness proof of B34/S0134V and related rules.

#14 Another SMOSMOSMOS (splitterrules)
A set of 54 SMOSMOSMOSes.

#15 Checkerboard, Day and Night (R2INT)
A rule that is not only self-complementary under black/white inversion, but also under XORing with a checkerboard.

#16 Traveling T's (Various, incl. ThePlayzr, Resu, mmmmmmmmm, hotcrystal0, hibiscus, PK22, H. H. P. M. P. Cole, LuveelVoom, pifricted, AbhpzTa, rabbit, R2INT, yujh, EvinZL, FWKnightship, shuich01, PkmnQ, I6_I6, NNlk05, yyh_baboon and others the list missed.)
a Turing-Complete margolus supporting 2TFL rule with known p3, p5, p7, p8, and p11 reflectors. The most recent version of the full stamp collection can be found at User:PK22/OCA:Travelling Ts/Full Stamp Collection. This does not include the 3c/8 distaff, which can be found here.

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Voting closes on 2026-11-07 23:59:59 UTC-12:00 (Which is 4am for me so you may still have a few hours.)
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Anthing I missed?

Posted: **September 27th, 2026, 10:52 am**

Some time had passed... can we start now?

Posted: **September 28th, 2026, 12:08 pm**

NNlk05 wrote: September 27th, 2026, 10:52 am Some time had passed... can we start now?

The voting thread has already been created at https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=234702. Can the moderators pin the thread?

Posted: **September 29th, 2026, 4:02 am**

I will try to make some time to review the and finalize the list over the weekend, but just from a precursory glance I can see a few errors/obvious things that can be improved

There are 2 big errors:

The nomination list is still missing #9.

Katrina has her name misspelled as Kathina. Additionally the link leads to this thread not her post

Some things that should really be fixed :

nomination 16 has "and others the list missed"
I like the formatting here better "(Yujh, NimbleRogue, vilc, WhiteHawk, unix with clock, R2INT, FWKnightship, b-engine, et al.)" Additionally we could just put in less names/ narrow the nomination.

The nomination is also way to long without providing meaningful information for the nomination. I would say that if we want to talk

Nomination 2 should also have its attributions cleared up

Nominations 4 and 13 are too similar. I would vote that they either be merged into one, or at least we say something more about the SMOSMOSMOS by splitterrules other than just "another 54 SMOSMOSMOS"

Posted: **September 29th, 2026, 11:00 am**

NimbleRogue wrote: September 29th, 2026, 4:02 am

I'll thank you in advance.

Posted: **October 3rd, 2026, 4:25 am**

I doubt it's still open, given it started and stopped once, but if it is, I'd like to nominate my proof that phoenix spaceships without B012a can't reach the speed limit.

Proof that phoenix spaceships without B012a cannot reach the speed limit of rules without B012a - Docsy
https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic ... 07#p223307

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