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I think those two are still interesting.

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A good question to ask would be, if you reverse colours, do the koans change?

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If you reverse the colors, some Koans change, yet some don’t.

I think these examples are missing from the main post.

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Thank you! I added them now.

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I’d like to revert the colors of 22, or does anyone have a more sophisticated suggestion?

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So is it an official guess, or do you want to continue the discussion first?

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Let’s make it official. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Koan_46

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It seems the rule is still possibly translation and rotation invariant as far as we have discovered through our koans, but it is not symmetric with respect to colour, nor is it anti-symmetric (in the sense that the switching the colours switches between a red koan to green and in reverse).

I’m wondering what happens if we take unions:

Red + red

Green + green

Red + green

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Koan_47
Koan_48

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Green+Green = Green
Red+Green = Red

So it’s more likely to be a rule along the lines of “all things must have some property” than “there must be at least one thing with some property”.

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One observation of what distinguishes green from red koans: Either no black stones are touching white, all black stones are touching white or black has only one chain.

And what about:

?

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Oops, somehow I missed that one, sorry.

Koan_49

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Might as well make that a guess and ask for a counterexample from @martin3141

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Good observation, but here are counter examples:

Koan_50
Koan_51

Unfortunately I can’t edit to the first post anymore.

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Kind mods, please wiki it for us.

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First post is wiki now

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Green Koans
Koan_6Koan_7Koan_10Koan_11Koan_14Koan_17Koan_22Koan_23Koan_28Koan_44Koan_35Koan_37Koan_47Koan_50Koan_59Koan_60

Red Koans
Koan_9Koan_25Koan_27Koan_30Koan_46Koan_48Koan_49Koan_51Koan_57Koan_58


Other useful stuff:

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I think everyone else meant that first post

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