Zendo, play by forum

[Simon]

CITA
CI
CL
LEDATIC

-- Simon

[Proxima]

White koans:
CITADEL

Black koans:
ADEL       GENERATION
CASTLE     GIGANTIC
CATLE      GYM
CENTURY    LEDATIC
CIRCLE
CI
CITA
CL
CYCLE
CTAEL

[Simon]

C
I
ITADEL
CITADELL
CCITADEL
CITADELCITADEL

-- Simon

[Simon]

CASDLE
MNEMONIC
REST

-- Simon

[Proxima]

White koans:
CITADEL

Black koans:
ADEL       CITADELCITADEL    LEDATIC
C          CITADELL          MNEMONIC
CASDLE     CL                REST
CASTLE     CTAEL
CATLE      CYCLE
CENTURY    GENERATION
CCITADEL   GIGANTIC
CIRCLE     GYM
CI         I
CITA       ITADEL

[Simon]

AKHTBN iff it is exactly CITADEL.

-- Simon

[Proxima]

That's correct    Sorry for the troll round; once I had the idea I wanted to go with it to see how things would play out.

Did you feel sure it was right at this point or was this just probing for a more helpful koan?

[Simon]

I had given it 70 % to win outright, 20 % to see TOWN or similar sementaic-related white koan (WillLem had prodded in that direction but I had not), and 10 % to see semantically unrelated white koans for an obscure narrow letter-based rule (but it could hardly be anything).

After this many black koans, it's an important guess; others are likely to guess this otherwise.

I'll leave it for somebody else again to master next!

-- Simon

[Proxima]

Incidentally, in case anyone wondered why I chose CITADEL as the word, WillLem's previous round made me think of the rule "AKHTBN if it's a Repton 3 level password", but I wouldn't expect anyone here to be familiar with those. so I chose just one 

[kaywhyn]

I think I would like a try at being rulemaster. After observing the last several rounds played in the last several weeks, I understand how the game works now. Lots of fun, and I still enjoy playing words/letters games even though I'm a math/science person

White koans:
TELEPHONE

Black koans:
CELLPHONE

[Silken Healer]

MOBILEPHONE

[Silken Healer]

I still enjoy playing words/letters games even though I'm a math/science person

I know this is sort of a joke remark, I'd actually say Zendo is a lot more mathematics-like then it is word/letters-like. Zendo is as much like words/letters than Suduko is to do with maths. We could play with numbers, colours, etc. It's more about observing patterns, and having an intuition of what to do, which is used all the time in mathematics e.g. those trigonometry substitution questions.

After observing the last several rounds played in the last several weeks, I understand how the game works now

There are also the instructions at the start of the thread, but I don't think those are very good. I just had to watch other people play too to understand.

[Proxima]

CELL
PHONE
TELE

[WillLem]

CALL
CITY
CALCULATOR
CIRCULAR
GIANT
GYM
GIRAFFE
GARGANTUAN
GOLF

[kaywhyn]

All guesses are black

White koans:
  TELEPHONE

Black koans:
* CALCULATOR    * GIANT
* CALL          * GIRAFFE
* CELL          * GOLF
  CELLPHONE     * GYM
* CIRCULAR      * MOBILEPHONE
* CITY          * PHONE
* GARGANTUAN    * TELE