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[mobius]

accusation: akhtbn if numbering the letters of the alphabet from 1-26, each letter corresponds to a number and the letter/numbers added up--the sum must be even.

more guesses:

OCKODUCKU
LETTER
BUNG
S
SSSS
POP
GOAL
STRIFF
BAGGAGE

[Proxima]

accusation: akhtbn if numbering the letters of the alphabet from 1-26, each letter corresponds to a number and the letter/numbers added up--the sum must be even.

This is not correct. A counterexample is INSANESTEVE, which is white even though its alphabetic values sum to 133.

In chat, möbius also guessed that the alphabetic values of the first and last letters must have an even total. This is not correct; a counterexample is SAYUYAGAMI, which is black even though 19 + 9 = 28.

White:
S
SSSS
POP

Black:
OCKODUCKU
LETTER
BUNG
GOAL
STRIFF
BAGGAGE

[Minim]

Interesting one. Well, with the different natures of PRAMIOX and PROXIMA we know so far that it affects word order, but still have no idea of a guess, especially when all of my previous koans were shown to be all black.

IN
ELY
YORK
LEEDS
OLDHAM
CARDIFF
SOLIHULL
SHEFFIELD
PORTSMOUTH

[Proxima]

White:
ELY
PORTSMOUTH

Black:
IN
YORK
LEEDS
OLDHAM
CARDIFF
SOLIHULL
SHEFFIELD

[Nepster]

Some more variations of Proxima:
PROMIXA
PRAXIMO
PROMIAX
APRIMOX
QRAMIOX

[Proxima]

White:
PROMIAX

Black:
PROMIXA
PRAXIMO
APRIOMX
QRAMIOX

[Ramon]

PROMIX
PROMX
PROX
PRX
PX

[Proxima]

^ All white.

[Ramon]

Ok, after categorizing all the guesses into their respective equivalence classes (first and last letter) I've come to the following conclusion which holds for all the guesses that have been made up to now:

A koan has the buddha nature iff the difference of its first and last letters' numeric value modulo 4 equals zero.

In other (simpler) words, the first letter of the koan must be a multiple of 4 letters away from the last letter (within the alphabet), the rest of the letters within the koan are irrelevant.

[Proxima]

 

[Ramon]

If anybody's still up for it, I got one more which I once started on IRC a while ago but never finished. Also, how about some Eleusis for a change?

White LEMMING Black PROXIMA

[Proxima]

Just throwing a few words out there to see what emerges....

LIX
RAMON
FUN
TRICKY
TAXING
MAYHEM

[Ramon]

White LEMMING Black FUN LIX MAYHEM PROXIMA RAMON TAXING TRICKY

[Minim]

I don't think anyone else would've guessed that previous rule without listing it. So it actually wasn't about word ordering at all? Erinomaista työtä Ramon.
Have we played an Eleusis game before? I don't remember, and I don't know what the goal is in this version; Well, I know so far that we're allowed to select koans, so...

HOW
IS
ELEUSIS
GOING
TO
MAKE
THIS
GAME
DIFFERENT

[Ramon]

In fact this is still a round of Zendo, in Eleusis, players would try to add letters to an existing sequence of letters (which would either work or not) instead of guessing full koans.

White LEMMING Black DIFFERENT ELEUSIS FUN GAME GOING HOW IS LIX MAKE MAYHEM PROXIMA RAMON TAXING THIS TO TRICKY

Buddha nature seems to be hard to obtain this time around