History: Zendo In Lojban

Zendo is an inductive reasoning/guessing game similar to Eleusis, Mao and Mastermind.

Zendo is played with stackable plastic pyramids; see 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; bug me if they're not.

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

No implication that rules below are good is intended.

koan

le/lo mupli

master

la/doi 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 .e pa kevna kubli be li re bei li vo"

A pyramid, easy version

lo/le dacti

Contains only red pieces

gunma lo xunre dacti po'o

Contains at least one red piece

gunma su'o xunre dacti

Contains exactly one red piece

gunma pa xunre dacti

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 dacti poi cpana su'o dacti

Equivalently, contains at least one piece which is beneath another piece

gunma su'o dacti poi se cpana su'o dacti

Contains exactly one stack with at least one red piece in it

gunma pa derxi poi gunma su'o xunre dacti

Contains only pieces of one colour

gunma lo dacti poi simxu mintu lo ka skari

Contains only red or blue pieces

gunma fu'e po'o su'o xunre dacti .a su'o blanu dacti

Contains only two colours of pieces

gunma re se skari be lo dacti

Contains only two colours of pieces, another way

gunma lo dacti poi se skari re da