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[Minim]

AYE - white
EYES - black
ON - white
YE - black
SAY - black
NOT - black
YEAH - black
YESSIR - black

After that, my postal count's tied with Dullstar now, the most active member back at the time when the forum was created in 2009.

[Clam]

EYA
SEY
NONO
NOON
NOAYE
WHITE
BLACK

[Minim]

EYA - white
SEY - black
NONO - black
NOON - black
NOAYE - black
WHITE - black
BLACK - white
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[Proxima]

Please arrange koans into whites then blacks when replying, it makes it so much easier.

Here's what we have so far.

White:
AYE
BLACK
EYA
NO
ON

Black:
EYES
NOAYE
NONO
NOON
NOT
SAY
SEY
WHITE
YE
YEAH
YES
YESSIR

New guesses:
AYA
AYEAYE
EYE
YAS
YEA

[Nepster]

Just one long koan:
THISKOANHASTHEBUDDHANATURE

[Minim]

OK Proxima, I'll do as you requested:

White:
YEA
THISKOANHASTHEBUDDHANATURE (The longer the word, the longer I take to work it out. http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/tongue.gif" alt=":P" title="Tongue" class="smiley" />)

Black:
AYA
AYEAYE
EYE
YAS

[Simon]

No idea at all yet even with 3-letter words, here's a batch of koans in Deutsch.

KRAUT
UND
RUEBEN
DIE
LASS
LIEGEN
NAGETIER

-- Simon

[Proxima]

Guess: A koan has the buddha-nature if the sum of its alphabetic values (A = 1, B = 2 etc) is prime. (Nepster's koan sums to 277, if my arithmetic is correct.)

[Minim]

Perfect Performance Proxima! (and Nepster's does indeed add up to 277)
As for the koans listed by Simon:

White
KRAUT = 71
NAGETIER = 79

The rest are black.

[Proxima]

All right then, round 15!  http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/cool.gif" alt="8)" title="Cool" class="smiley" />

A student asked the Master: Should those who seek the Way study the mathematics?

The Master replied:
EUCLID has the buddha nature.
EULER does not have the buddha nature.

[Nepster]

Hmm, that is not yet a conclusive answer. So let's ask the Master about...
FERMAT
GAUSS
PYTHAGORAS
DESCARTES
GALOIS
HILBERT
WILES

[Proxima]

Having buddha nature:
FERMAT
PYTHAGORAS
DESCARTES
GALOIS

Lacking buddha nature:
GAUSS
HILBERT
WILES

[Simon]

EULERSUM
CLAD
CANTOR
EUNTOR
HAUSDORFF

Guess: AHKTBN iff the length is not a prime number.

-- Simon

[Proxima]

Having buddha nature:
CLAD
CANTOR
EUNTOR
HAUSDORFF

Lacking buddha nature:
EULERSUM

Guess: AHKTBN iff the length is not a prime number.

This is incorrect. For example, MORIARTY does not have buddha nature, though 8 is clearly not prime.

[Clam]

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