On Mar 12, 2009, at 5:31 PM, David L. Willson wrote:
IIRC, this puzzle is for non-Zendo players.
Actually, everyone who is in the game has played Zendo, I think. I
know at least three of them have played extensively.
Oh, well then, this'll be a walk in the park. or, dungeon.
whichever.
We'll see. The players don't get a second guess. They have to build
both a yes koan and a no koan and press the button. If they are
wrong, they have to defeat the chain golem that forms before they can
try again (well, I guess they could keep trying in the middle of
combat, hmm). I'm going with the equivalent of this: A koan has the
Buddha nature if and only if for each of color, size, and orientation
all of the three pieces are the same or each of the three are
different (with the meta-rule that only three-piece koans are even
valid).