The thing that bothers me is that the only way to express the rule without reference to Scrabble not only complicates the rule beyond elegance and fairness but actually just ends up by necessity as a comprehensive descriptive list of each and every possible correct koan. It's like making a map of the world in 1:1 scale, you can't really use such a map to navigate in the world because reading the map is exactly like being stuck in the world without a map. |