On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:33:32 -0800, Christopher Hickman wrote: > What's the best way to get small black and white stones for marking > Koans? Wy wife got some glass "stones" from Williamsburg Pottery, > but they are twice the size I'd want them, and they aren't > opaque. I'd like some like the ones in the boxed Zendo. And I've > eaten all my Christmas M&Ms (green for true, red for false, works > well, but they only sell those at Christmastime) I don't know what the original boxed set stones looked like, but I did spend a fair amount of time exploring every inch of my local craft store before I found something I was quite happy with. What I eventually purchased were sets of small beads, (the cheapest ones ended up being pre-strung on necklaces). The white and brown (no green was available) ones I got are very thin "flying-saucer" shaped pieces. They also didn't have black available in that shape, so I ended up getting some tiny tear-drop shaped beads instead. At first I was really dissatisfied that the black markers didn't have the same shape as the white ones, but I quickly took a liking to that. And the tear-drop shaped markers do have a tremendous benefit in being able to actually point at the relevant koan. I'm almost tempted to go look for white beads of the same shape now. About the only thing that isn't perfect about the "stones" I've got is that they do have tiny holes drilled through them. My wife says that the holes are really unnoticeable---but she also laughed at me for putting so much thought and work into finding perfect markers for this game anyway. Maybe I'll take some photos of a game in progress here and try to get them on the wiki, (I've already taken some photos of my pyramid carry case for the very purpose of posting in on the wiki, but I haven't quite gotten around to doing that yet). -Carl
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