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Oh, man, Zendo sounds like a wicked cool game. I must play it. I must play it NOW!!!!

Zendo is a game of inductive logic in which one player, the Master, creates a rule that the rest of the players, as Students, try to figure out by building and studying configurations

When you are selected to be the Master, your first task is to come up with a secret rule that will be used during this game of Zendo. According to your rule, some koans will “have the Buddha-nature”, and others will not. For the students, the object of the game is to try to figure out what your secret rule is.

An example of a simple rule is “a koan has the Buddha-nature if and only if it contains one or more green pieces.” An example of a very difficult rule would be “a koan has the Buddha-nature if and only if it contains an odd number of pieces pointing at other pieces.” You are also allowed to create “negative” rules: “a koan does not have the Buddha-nature if it contains exactly three pieces touching the table, otherwise it does.”

Thanks Cam