On 2011-08-06 15:14, Shadowfirebird wrote: > Despite what I said about Zendo being inherently proof against > valid-but-too-difficult rules, I wonder if this situation could be > fought against by a house rule that said if no player can present a koan > which the master marks white within ten (or seven, or twenty, or > whatever) rounds, then the master automatically loses control to a > random other player? What's so special about "white"? There is always an inverse rule that marks white rather than black and vice-versa. -- Daniel W. Johnson panoptes@xxxxxxxxxx http://members.iquest.net/~panoptes/ 039 53 36 N / 086 11 55 W