Zendobun is the name I came up with for a variant of Zendo using sentences for koans nstead of Icehouse pieces. As far as I know (which isnt very far), bun is the Japanese word for sentence, hence the name. Of course, someone with more knowledge of apanese said that it might be more properly called Bunzendo, but I like the sound of endobun better, so that stays. A group of us played a game by email, and it worked retty well. I have a log of the game. I also have a few notes Make sure your sentences are correct English sentences (unless youre playing in another language, then make it orrect for that language). Its more challenging and fun to make actual sentences than to just come up with strings of words.The question came up but it was never an issue for us: make sure you agree on how many syllables different kinds of words have. I guess theres a difference between American English and British English for some words. (If anyone knows for sure, let me know.) Another question that came up was gender. meone asked about the gender of the word banana. The master appropriately answered mu, which basically means unask the question. Most words in English do not have a gender. (Technical question: besides pronouns, do any English words actually have nder? For instance, is boy considered a masculine word?) It would be possible to do a rule involving gender, just be clear on what words you consider to be what gender, and dont go assigning a gender to banana,

Website: http://www.aq.org/~kevin/zendobun/