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#1
Lix Main / Re: Lix 0.10.29 released
January 29, 2025, 06:06:03 PM
That's a really fun animation for the breaking jackhammer, but I must admit my first thought when seeing it was being worried that it could clutter the screen, especially with many diggers. Additionally, since the parts fly away at high velocity, they attract the player's eyes' attention very quickly, and I feel that *could* make it a bit annoying or exhausting long term when trying to focus on other things. I haven't seen it in real gameplay yet, so I might be too quick to judge.
#2
Forum Games / Re: Zendo, play by forum
December 17, 2024, 09:32:52 AM
Quote from: Simon on December 16, 2024, 11:41:23 PMYou are enlightened!

A koan is white iff it becomes a palindrome after forgetting the differences among the 25 non-I letters.

You provided the perfect black starting koan, the round looped back to it nicely.
#3
Forum Games / Re: Zendo, play by forum
December 16, 2024, 11:31:06 PM
We count the letters to the left of the leftmost I (which is 0) and we count the letters right of the rightmost I (which is 0)
#4
Forum Games / Re: Zendo, play by forum
December 16, 2024, 11:26:15 PM
II is white under my rule.

But I have a better formulation: A koan containing an I has the buddha nature if the positions of its "I"s are symmetric within the koan.
#5
Forum Games / Re: Zendo, play by forum
December 16, 2024, 11:18:24 PM
I also just realized your starting koan disproves the rule. Can't be far off though, most of the white non-chaff koans fit the bill  :lix-suspicious:

Let's adjust it to: A koan does NOT have the buddha nature if it contains an I and there is a different amount of letters to the left of the leftmost I than to the right of the rightmost I.
#6
Forum Games / Re: Zendo, play by forum
December 16, 2024, 11:11:37 PM
A koan does NOT have the buddha nature if it contains an I and is not palindromic.

If this is the correct rule: Well, it should have been faster to figure it out. The hint was pretty good and "I" (see what "I" did there?) actually like the combination of how the inclusion of a specific letter made it tougher. I'd also pass the next master round on to kaywhyn.
#7
Forum Games / Re: Zendo, play by forum
December 16, 2024, 02:25:12 PM
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#8
Forum Games / Re: Zendo, play by forum
December 12, 2024, 10:45:33 PM
Quote from: Simon on December 12, 2024, 10:13:10 PMYou can give the black counterexample ABCA.

I don't quite follow. Under my rule, that would still be white (ABA and ACA are both palindromic subsequences).

But I mainly posted to give kaywhyn the green light for the second rule!
#9
Forum Games / Re: Zendo, play by forum
December 12, 2024, 09:40:04 PM
I'm going to give you the enlightenment here, because shortly after the round started I realized that my intended rule could actually be massively simplified to a wholly different wording and it didn't actually produce very interesting white and black koans, making it substantially less fun to master.

I was thinking of: AKHTBN iff it contains a subsequence (minimum length 3) that is a palindrome.
Then too late I realized that is equivalent to something akin to your guess (it is sufficient for a koan to have the pattern ...x...y...x... anywhere in the koan), and while that is an okay rule, it strongly diverges from my original vision. Then I considered adjusting the rules to the effect that the letters of the subsequence each must be the same distance from each other, but that just feels like an arbitrary addition that could get frustrating.

But I did say I just wanted to make a quick one, so I'm not really bummed out :lix-tongue:
#10
Forum Games / Re: Zendo, play by forum
December 12, 2024, 07:54:13 PM
Slightly disappointed that WOLOLO didn't make it into your guess list!

White koans:
  CASHMERE
  MERE
  SILKS
* WOLO
* WOOLO
  WOOLW

Black koans:
  CASH
  CASHME
  SILK
  WOOL
  WOOLS
* WWOOL
#11
Forum Games / Re: Zendo, play by forum
December 12, 2024, 03:28:53 PM
White koans:
  CASHMERE
  MERE
  SILKS
* WOOLW

Black koans:
  CASH
* CASHME
  SILK
  WOOL
* WOOLS
#12
Forum Games / Re: Zendo, play by forum
December 12, 2024, 12:33:15 PM
WOOL does not have the buddha nature.

White koans:
  CASHMERE
  MERE
  SILKS

Black koans:
  CASH
  SILK
* WOOL
#13
Forum Games / Re: Zendo, play by forum
December 11, 2024, 11:42:21 PM
White koans:
  CASHMERE
* MERE
* SILKS

Black koans:
* CASH
  SILK
#14
Forum Games / Re: Zendo, play by forum
December 11, 2024, 10:35:52 PM
Let's go for a quick one then!

CASHMERE has the buddha nature.
SILK does not have the buddha nature.
#15
Forum Games / Re: Zendo, play by forum
December 03, 2024, 01:14:45 PM
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