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[http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Kory/Games/Zendo/ Zendo] is an inductive reasoning/guessing game similar to [http://www.logicmazes.com/games/eleusis.html Eleusis], [http://www.pagat.com/eights/mao.html Mao] and [http://www.archimedes-lab.org/mastermind.html Mastermind].

Zendo is played with stackable plastic pyramids; see [http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Kory/Games/Zendo/HowToPlay.html The Zendo Rules] for more information.

This is not (yet) an attempt to translate the rules, but merely to translate the more commonly used terms in the game so it can be played fairly easily by people speaking Lojban.

Emphasis is on correctness rather than emulating the pseudo-buddhistic poetics of the original.

All unusual words should be in jbovlaste; [mailto:rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org bug me] if they're not.

Feel free to replace words with links to their jbovlaste pages.

== Terminology ==

A fair bit of this was pulled from [http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Kory/Games/Zendo/Terminology.html The Zendo Terminology Page].

;koan:le/lo mupli

;master, the form of address:la/doi ctuca

;master, the request:doi ctuca ko pajni tu'a le mi mupli

;mondo:doi ctuca ko pajni lo nu jivna (more formally: lo nu mi jivna lo drata tadni)

;guessing stone:pa rupnu (be fi la ctuca)

;rule (as in the rule the master has in mind):le javni

;A koan has the buddha nature if it contains ...:da poi mupli cu mapti le javni gi'o gunma ...

;A pyramid:mumbli, sort of.  In fact, a Zendo pyramid is something like "bliku lo slasi vo plita kubli be li re bei li ci be'o .e

pa kevna kubli be li re bei li vo"

;A pyramid, easy version:lo/le bliku  :-)

;contains:gunma

;contains only:[http://jbovlaste.lojban.org/dict/mulgunma mulgunma]

;flat:vreta

;upright:sanli

;wierd:no'e sanli

;small:cmalu

;medium:no'e barda/no'e cmalu

;large:barda

;size:[http://jbovlaste.lojban.org/dict/nilbra nilbra]

;the piece has a pip count of X:le bliku se barna cu kanli li X

;grounded:se sarji le loldi/le jubme

;ungrounded:na se sarji le loldi/se sarji lo drata bliku

;pointing towards another piece:farsni lo drata bliku

;pointing in the same direction as another piece:farsni fo lo panra be lo drata bliku

;pointing in the opposite direction as another piece:farsni fo lo dukti panra be lo drata bliku

;touching:lamji

;tower, stack:derxi

;higher than piece X:galtu fi X

;lower than pice X:dizlo fi X

;highest piece:le galtu traji bliku

;lowest piece:le dizlo traji bliku

;majority:[http://jbovlaste.lojban.org/dict/xabmau xabmau]

;plurality:[http://jbovlaste.lojban.org/dict/datmau datmau]

==  Rule Examples ==

No implication that rules below are good is intended.

Note that you want "joi" after "gunma" or "mulgunma", not ".e"; the latter means that the koan is partially/entirely composed of each of the things listed seperately.

Much of this is based on [http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Kory/Games/Zendo/RulesForBeginners.html Zendo Rules For Beginners].

;Contains only red pieces:mulgunma lo xunre bliku

;Contains at least one red piece:gunma su'o xunre bliku

;Contains exactly one red piece:gunma pa xunre bliku

;Contains at least one stack:gunma su'o derxi

;Equivalently, contains at least one piece which is on top of another piece:gunma su'o bliku poi cpana su'o bliku

;Equivalently, contains at least one piece which is beneath another piece:gunma su'o bliku poi se cpana su'o bliku

;Contains exactly one stack with at least one red piece in it:gunma pa derxi poi gunma su'o xunre bliku

;Contains only pieces of one colour:mulgunma lo bliku poi simxu mintu lo ka skari

;Contains only pieces of one colour, another way:mulgunma lo bliku poi se skari pa da

;Contains only red or blue pieces, can be empty:mulgunma su'o no xunre bliku joi su'o no blanu bliku

;Contains only red or blue pieces, cannot be empty:mulgunma su'o pa bliku poi se skari lo xunre .a lo blanu

;Contains only red or blue pieces, another way:gunma no bliku poi na se skari lo xunre .a lo blanu

;Contains only two colours of pieces:mulgunma re se skari be lo bliku

;Contains only two colours of pieces, another way:mulgunma lo bliku poi se skari re da

;Contains only one size of piece:mulgunma lo bliku poi nilbra pa da

;Contains only flat pieces:mulgunma lo vreta bliku

;Contains at least one small piece:gunma su'o cmalu bliku

;Contains at least on of each of the four colours:gunma su'o bliku poi gunma vo skari