All white.

White koans:
NO
NORTH
OR
ORTH

Black koans:
AC
AD
AG
EAST
SO
SOUTH
OTH
OUTH
WEST

White koans:
NO
NORTH
ORTH

Black koans:
EAST
SO
SOUTH
OTH
OUTH
WEST

Both black.

Yeah, no worries, I'm not upset or anything, just didn't want my earlier words to be taken wrongly.

New round!

White koans:
NORTH

Black koans:
SOUTH

A koan has the Buddha-nature if its letters are in either alphabetical order or reverse alphabetical order.

Quote from: Silken Healer on November 20, 2024, 04:10:03 PMI respect it's up to Simon, but in my opinion all this talk about adding a turn system

There is already a "turn system", and the only suggestion was to limit the number of guesses per turn, as I felt that WillLem's guess of four wildcard templates at once (104 koans total) was excessive.

Quoteand guesses having a goal in mind

I assume you mean Ramon's post #840, but again you are stripping away the context: Ramon said that he misinterpreted WillLem's guess as being "I guess all koans up to 4 letters", and was explaining why he disagreed with making such a guess. No-one has argued for "guesses must have a goal in mind" to be an explicit rule, which would drain the fun out of the game as well as being nearly impossible to enforce.

* * *

CORRE
GNORW
LEFT

I think it would be good if we agreed on a rule in future to avoid wildcard guesses getting out of hand. I suggest:

On your turn, you may guess a wildcard pattern, such as X*A or ***E, which is understood as a set of 26 koan guesses, replacing all wildcards with each letter in turn (all wildcards must be replaced by the same letter). Only one wildcard pattern may be guessed at a time.

CDE
N
NED

Quote from: Silken Healer on November 18, 2024, 08:05:57 PMNone disproved Proxima's guess at the time of posting though, so it's still in the rules you need to provide a counter-example.

No, it isn't. NNN is a valid counterexample to my rule guess.

ENN
NEE
NEN

A koan has the Buddha-nature if it is three letters long and starts with E.

OJ
YO
YOJ

SOY is on both lists.

JJ
JJJ
O

JOYJOY
JOYSWIM
SWIMJOY
SWIMSWIM