Good point - the rule would also have to apply if no player could manage to create a koan that was marked black... ----- Original message ----- > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Icehouse mailing list > Icehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.looneylabs.com/mailman/listinfo/icehouse