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#1
Forum Games / Re: Zendo, play by forum
Last post by Simon - Today at 01:00:50 PM
AKHTBN iff
  • it contains an R, or
  • it contains a Q, or
  • it contains more Ns than Zs.

Ah, and something cute:

AKHTBN iff it has more straight diagonal line segments with negative slope \ than with positive slope /. Equivalently, it has more appearances of N, Q, R added together than appearances of Z. All other letters either have no diagonals, or have both kinds of diagonals (A) but in same amounts.

-- Simon
#2
Forum Games / Re: Zendo, play by forum
Last post by Ramon - Today at 12:25:43 PM
ACR
ADR
AGR
AOR
Z
ZR
ZNR
ZNER
OQ
OOQ
OQO
N
NN
#3
Forum Games / Re: Zendo, play by forum
Last post by Proxima - Today at 11:45:47 AM
White koans:
AR       QUICK    SOURTH
NE       QUIG     ZNNE
NO       QUOTE    ZONNE
NORTH    QVW
ONO      R
OR       RO
ORTH     RR
PAR      SOR
Q        SORT
QUEST    SORTH


Black koans:
AC            OS       WO
AD            OTH      XYZ
AG            OUTH     ZN
AO            OW       ZNE
BDP           S        ZONE
CEFGHIJKLM    SO
EAST          SOUTH
MO            V
O             W
OO            WEST
#4
Forum Games / Re: Zendo, play by forum
Last post by Simon - Today at 10:53:17 AM
PAR
QUOTE
QUEST
QUIG
QUICK

-- Simon
#5
Forum Games / Re: Zendo, play by forum
Last post by Ramon - Today at 10:22:45 AM
ZNNE
OW
WO
S
SOR
SORT
#6
Forum Games / Re: Zendo, play by forum
Last post by Proxima - Today at 04:52:09 AM
Thanks, fixed.

White koans:
AR       RO
NE       RR
NO       SORTH
NORTH    SOURTH
ONO      ZONNE
OR
ORTH
Q
QVW
R


Black koans:
AC            OS       ZNE
AD            OTH      ZONE
AG            OUTH
AO            SO
BDP           SOUTH
CEFGHIJKLM    V
EAST          W
MO            WEST
O             XYZ
OO            ZN
#7
Forum Games / Re: Zendo, play by forum
Last post by Simon - Today at 04:05:20 AM
Quote from: Proxima on Today at 03:56:53 AMWhite koans:
AR       RR
NO       SOUTH

[...]

SOUTH is suddenly white here. It's still correctly black, too. SORTH is the missing white koan.

-- Simon
#8
Forum Games / Re: Zendo, play by forum
Last post by Simon - Today at 04:01:32 AM
The outermost peel of the onion has come off.

NE
ZN
ZNE
ZONNE

-- Simon
#9
Forum Games / Re: Zendo, play by forum
Last post by Proxima - Today at 03:56:53 AM
Added the counterexample ZONE.

White koans:
AR       RR
NO       SORTH
NORTH    SOURTH
ONO
OR
ORTH
Q
QVW
R
RO


Black koans:
AC            OS
AD            OTH
AG            OUTH
AO            SO
BDP           SOUTH
CEFGHIJKLM    V
EAST          W
MO            WEST
O             XYZ
OO            ZONE
#10
Forum Games / Re: Zendo, play by forum
Last post by Simon - Today at 03:36:59 AM
AKHTBN iff it contains an R or a letter at ±4 from R (which are N and V).

This would be the only pattern I see. Everything else is an arbitrary set of letters that doesn't seem to make nice words, or be at nice distances from each other. If that's not the solution: Test the following three ...

V
Q
W

... and then guess: AKHTBN iff it contains at least one of: R, N, or a white one of those three (Q, V, W).

-- Simon