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[Nepster]

I totally missed the Eleusis round. To be honest I'm not sure I understand it

As far as I know, there was no Eleusis round. Ramon wanted to start one, but it was changed to a Zendo game during the first few replies.

AKHTBN iff; the letters in the koan go in order; up the alphabet, then down, then up etc.. or visa versa.

Sorry, but I don't quite understand your guess. Wouldn't the white koan ELEUSIS correspond to up-down-up-down-down-up and thus being black according to your rule?

All your new koans are black:
LIKE
ELECTRODE
SING
ZZOZZ
ZOZ
QELL
FART

[ccexplore]

ELEUSISELEUSIS
MUSICKOAN
ELEUSISBUDDHA
ELEPHANTBUDDHA
BUDDHAELEPHANT
ELUSI
OLOASUS

[Proxima]

As far as I know, there was no Eleusis round. Ramon wanted to start one, but it was changed to a Zendo game during the first few replies.

Correction: Ramon suggested we play Eleusis next round, and minimac misunderstood him to mean the (then) current round was Eleusis.

[Nepster]

Correction: Ramon suggested we play Eleusis next round, and minimac misunderstood him to mean the (then) current round was Eleusis.

Then I am deeply sorry for misunderstanding Ramon as well and starting a Zendo round instead of an Eleusis one.

White koans:
ELEUSISELEUSIS
MUSICKOAN
ELEUSISBUDDHA
ELEPHANTBUDDHA
BUDDHAELEPHANT
ELUSI
OLOASUS

Interesting that people choose koans that are either all white or all black .

[Ramon]

WOLOLO

[ccexplore]

NKAO
KN
EKEUNIN
USIS
AABCDDEEHIIKLMNOSSSUUU
NEPSTER

[Ben]

ELEISIS
ZUNDO
MENDO
KOANS

(prediction: MENDO will be white, the other three black?)

[Nepster]

White:
NKAO
EKEUNIN
USIS
AABCDDEEHIIKLMNOSSSUUU
MENDO (as predicted)

Black:
WOLOLO
KN
NEPSTER (very far from Buddha-nature )
ELEISIS
ZUNDO
KOANS

[Ben]

Gonna have to go with a modified version of my original attempt...

AKHTBN iff, when the letters in it are arranged alphabetically, the last letter is a vowel.

[Nepster]

AKHTBN iff, when the letters in it are arranged alphabetically, the last letter is a vowel.

100% correct this time !

[Ben]

Awesome, ha.

Nepster, I don't want to admit to how much of my time at work yesterday was spent looking at that incomprehensible string of letters, brow furrowed. Nice.

[Minim]

Ben, congratulations on a well thought out guess. Are you calling open floor or would you like to create a challenge?

I'd like to start off a game if you're calling open floor, but if you'd like to make a rule I'll scratch this game make YES and NO koan guesses.

Initial white koan: NO
Initial black koan: YES

[Ben]

Thanks!
Floor's wide open

Does this game mean that any koan guess has to be answerable by either a yes or a no?

[Simon]

No, merely that minimac would abort this round that starts with initial koans of YES and NO if you wanted to host a round.

YE
SAY
NOT
YEAH
YESSIR

-- Simon

[Ben]

Makes more sense, ha. Need more coffee, I suppose

AYE
EYES
ON