I almost universally play Speed Zendo these days in which you get information much faster and the Null Koan doesn't generally gain you much so I don't care one way or the other. In traditional Zendo though I find it frequently does more harm than good as people misunderstand the logic of it. On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Joshua Kronengold <mneme@xxxxxx> wrote: > Christopher Hickman writes: >>On Mar 9, 2009, at 8:57 PM, Doug Orleans wrote: >>> Playing With Pyramids says in multiple places that a koan has one or >>> more pyramids. The null koan is an obvious variant that lots of >>> people allow, but I prefer to disallow it because of the ambiguity of >>> rules like "contains only grounded pyramids". >>Could somebody explain the ambiguity of this rule in relation to the >>null koan? > > There isn't any. It's clearly true for the null koan. > >>Clearly the null koan doesn't contain any pyramids, let >>alone only grounded ones. How could anyone think this could be marked >>anything but no? > > It's obvious. "contains only grounded pyramids" means "contains > nothing -but- grounded pyramids" a koan that contains nothing clearly > contains that is not a grounded pyramid. > > Regardless, I never play with the null koan, because it's expressly > disallowed in the rules and Kory doesn't like it (and I don't think it > adds much to the game). > > > > -- > Joshua Kronengold (mneme@(io.com, labcats.org)) |\ _,,,--,,_ ,) > --^-- "Did you know, if you increment enough, you /,`.-'`' -, ;-;;' > /\\ get an extra digit?" "I knew," weeps Six. |,4- ) )-,_ ) /\ > /-\\\ "We knew. But we had forgotten." '---''(_/--' (_/-' > _______________________________________________ > Icehouse mailing list > Icehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.looneylabs.com/mailman/listinfo/icehouse > -- Sam Zitin Director of Information Management Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity Office:317-876-1913 Cell: 317-710-0925