BGG Image Zendo - COME PLAY!
Matthew Tardiff
United States
Lewiston
Maine
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Let's play Zendo with BGG images.
Add a game and I will tell you if it has the BUDDHA NATURE!
Or, more specifically, if the image that you chose for that game has the buddha nature. This is a clue that the buddha nature has nothing to do with mechanics, etc... but just applies to the physical components.
Sorry - there is no prize for figuring out the "rule". This is just for fun.
I'll start with an image that follows the rule, and you folks can take it from there. I'll try to check back often to judge the new images.
I just want to be clear that the rule applies to an image, not a game. If the rule is "game uses pawns" and you add chess but the photo doesn't show the pawns, then it does not have the buddha nature!
*----EDIT----*
If you'd like to guess the rule, make your guess as a comment on the image that you posted.
The master of each round is encouraged to give a small GG reward to the student who guesses the rule first.
The "winner" of a round becomes the new master and should think of a new rule and post another image to get the whole game rolling again.
Current round (as of the time of this edit) starts here.
The BGG Image Zendo Player microbadge has been approved! You can purchase it here.
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Chris R.
United States
Unspecified
Missouri
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I guess I'll start out with the obvious one...
Does this image have the Buddha nature?
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Chris R.
United States
Unspecified
Missouri
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Hmm, just you and me?
Well, does this picture have the Buddha nature?
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153.
Board Game: Go
[Average Rating:7.78 Overall Rank:44]
Chris R.
United States
Unspecified
Missouri
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(I made a Buddha call or two.)
Buddha?
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T. Nomad
New Zealand
Winnipeg/Auckland/Cheonan
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Here too, one can find the Buddha nature.
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United States
Saint Joseph
Michigan
I would do all the things I have ever dreamed of doing. I would love to become a professional whistler.I'm pretty amazing at it now, but I wanna get, like, even better. Make my living out of it.
Bffffttt, Pffffttt, Buuuuurtt........
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Does this image have the Buddha nature?
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Arne Thomi
Germany
Hamburg
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The true Buddha hasn't been seen for some time. Is he within this picture?
And just to make a really really wild guess to get this going:
Spoiler (mouseover to reveal): Buddha is in flat 2D-pictures or at least pictures where you can interprete the 3D as 2D, with at least two elements
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Chris R.
United States
Unspecified
Missouri
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Would -- Buddha -- be -- here?
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Joshua Ostrander
United States
Henrietta
New York
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Master, does this image contain the Buddha nature?
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T. Nomad
New Zealand
Winnipeg/Auckland/Cheonan
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Behold the Buddha nature within.
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Brian Bersak
United States
Hillsborough
New Jersey
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Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring budda home?
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Tuomas Riekkinen
Finland
Kuopio
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Does this have buddha nature?
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162.
Board Game: Hansa
[Average Rating:6.98 Overall Rank:320]
Antti Tahvanainen
Finland
Helsinki
Uusimaa
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O wise master, your humble student wants to find out if this image is worthy for Buddha nature?
And also if the rule is Spoiler (mouseover to reveal): "At least two identifical items on a continuous surface"?
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I believe that this image does not contain the Buddha nature...
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I believe this image has the Buddha nature.
Spoiler (mouseover to reveal): There must be two or more of each component that appears in the picture
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T. Nomad
New Zealand
Winnipeg/Auckland/Cheonan
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One last kick at the meditating cat before image Zendo II gets retired, I guess.
The image below and left contains the Buddha nature.
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Shemp Fill-in: Chan?
United States
Fountain Valley
California
Which way did I go?
Pick a card.
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Round 3 (renumbered?)
On the chance that this game will start up again, thanks to the "Geeklists that should continue" Geeklist, I have a new rule, and here is an example of an image which possesses the Buddha nature.
It also happens to be an image I submitted, but that has nothing to do with its Buddha nature.
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Arne Thomi
Germany
Hamburg
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I shall refrain from making rash guesses. However, to progress on the path to enlightenment: does this image contain the buddha nature?
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Matthew Tardiff
United States
Lewiston
Maine
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Humble master, does this image contain the buddha nature?
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T. Nomad
New Zealand
Winnipeg/Auckland/Cheonan
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Oh sage one, does this image contain the buddha nature?
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Board Game: Zendo
[Average Rating:7.32 Overall Rank:292]
Nicholas Fletcher
United States
Ohio
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Oh wise one, doth Buddha shine upon this image?
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Nicholas Fletcher
United States
Ohio
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And of this, wise one?
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Arne Thomi
Germany
Hamburg
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Alas, following the path to enlightenment after all this time.
So may I humbly ask: does this image contain the buddha nature? And if so, is it because
Spoiler (mouseover to reveal): the game board or the game is on a table?
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Nicholas Fletcher
United States
Ohio
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Doth this image hold the Buddha nature, oh wise one?
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Ron Parker
United States
Fort Wayne
Indiana
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Oh great master, I humbly submit that the image to the left does not contain the Buddha, but the image below does.
Spoiler (mouseover to reveal): Can the Buddha be found in the corner of a table?
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Ron Parker
United States
Fort Wayne
Indiana
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Round 4, by the new reckoning
The new Buddha (not to be confused with the Nuddha, which is a whole different thing) can be found in the picture to the left.
Edit: as is customary, whosoever shall guess the Buddha's nature shall receive the tips for this entry. And lo, though I can't tip my own entry to make it obvious, that person shall also receive one  from me.
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Saint Joseph
Michigan
Owasso
OK
West Lafayette
Indiana
Medellin
Antioquia
http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/59430/item/1421198#item142...
los angeles
CA
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1. To be very specific - the image had to contain a
non-human animal of this planet.
2. Image contains glass beads of at least two
different colors.
3. An image has the Buddha nature if it shows the game
name, and the name contains the letter "R".
4. You have correctly found the rule that an image has
the Buddha nature if it contains a beverage/beverage
container/tankard of ale/etc.
5. Image contains numberless/pipless dice.
6. Shows an object/person in motion.
7. It was "no even numbers" not "no even digits."
8. "Game has to be clearly identifiable as a
non-english edition!"
9. An image contains Buddha if it contains components
arrayed in or displaying a fan pattern.
10. Single component touches all four edges of the
photo, but doesn't take up the full frame.
11. It has pieces which cover the intersection of
two lines.
12. Game on a wooden table
13. Image contains tiles laid out such that elements
of one tile match elements of an adjacent tile
at the intersection of those two tiles.
14. Have the name of the master Reiner Knizia showing
15. Image shows game box(es) on a shelf / shelves /
bookcase.
16. An image with a watch or someone wearing one.
17. (Not guessed) Image contains the colors black,
white, and cyan (light blue) on the same surface.
18. The image contains at least one octagon.
19. (Not guessed) the game components pictured are the
same colour(s)
20. (resurrecting the game) the corner of a table.
21. The picture contains at least one solid-colored
playing piece, but no solid-colored playing pieces
of cool colors (i.e. green/blue/violet.)
22. The image must clearly contain any letter from
BUDDHA and/or a single digit number (that is,
2 or 7 but not 27). Letters and/or numbers must
be completely visible in the image: no partial
numbers or letters.
23. The Buddha nature is found in a transparent object
in the picture.
24. It contains the image of a foodstuff.
25. An image has the Buddha nature if it contains the
name of another game. An expansion is part of the
main game, so if the text says "Power Grid:
Benelux/Central Europe" that does not contain the
Buddha nature (Power Grid is the same game)
but "Power Grid: France/Italy" has Buddha nature
(Ra). Likewise a game that is considered another
version of the same game is excluded (Formula
De contains Formula D, but does not count). If it's
really a different game, that counts, so Power Grid:
Factory Manager has Buddha nature.
26. Facial hair
27. To have the Buddha-Nature, it must depict
a (non-human) mammal.
28. An image has the Buddha nature if it shows two or
more game pieces that are the same color, but
different shapes.
29. Each Vowel (A,E,I,O,U) appears at least once
30. Contains the number and/or digit "3" at least once.
(the word "three" will not make it Buddha)
31. A human holding a gun.
32. There is someone with his/her arms crossed
in the picture.
33. It shows a chimney or smokestack.
34. The picture show a die with more than 6 sides.
35. Image contains something to write with (pen, pencil,
crayon, marker, chalk, etc...)
36. The picture show someone wearing glasses
37. Buddha is revealed whenever the GeekID contains
at least a double digit.
38. The image contains a male and a female (human, or
something close to human).
39. Images with the Buddha nature have pieces
in a 'wrong' orientation.
40. The picture shows a gameboard containing a
natural body of (stationary) water, that is to say
an ocean, sea or lake.
41. The image must contain a game board with a road.
42. The image must include a towel.
43. The image shows an odd number of people.
44. The image must contain at least one red
playing piece.
45. An image contains Buddha if the game's name is
displayed on a component (board, card, etc...).
Game boxes AND rule sheets don't count.
46. No cards are displayed in the photo.
47. The image contains a space and western
themed game.
48. Language Neutrality: The image has the Buddha
nature if it is LANGUAGE NEUTRAL. It must contain
no legible words. Single letter or numeric characters
are acceptable as singular symbols.
49. Arranged in a quincunx, the standard five-spot
formation.
50. Buddha is found in all LIVING things (be they animal
or vegetable).
51. Buddha Nature is found in double letters.
52. It contains a person or people and NOBODY
is looking at the camera.
53. The buddha nature is present if the image is blessed
with the presence of a camel.
54. Lucky Charms: An image has the buddha nature if it
contains at least four differently shaped and
colored wooden bits.
55. The picture must contain at least 1 red cube
56. The image must contain a game being played and
the box of a different game adjacent on the table
(not on a shelf in the background).
57. The picture must contain at least one storage tray
58. The Totemo rule: An image has the buddha nature
if it contains bits in two primary colors and their
mutual secondary color.
59. The picture must show at least one bowl with of
components of a game.
60. Original Picture must be at least 1000x1000 pixels
61. The Buddha Nature is found in a cardboard game
component that is oriented vertically, as opposed to
laying flat as most cardboard game components do.
62. The buddha nature is present if the picture contains
a person (or portion thereof) and a person shaped
game piece (meeple).
63. The Chairs edition: An image has the buddha nature
if it contains at least one empty chair.
64. An image contains the buddha nature if it contains
a bare foot
65. The
cardBOARD round: An image has the Buddhanature if it contains a non-cardboard board.
(i.e. it contains a board made of a material other
than that of traditional quad-fold boards).
66. An image has the buddha nature if it depicts a
structure with at least two stories.
67. The Buddha likes titles with only a single vowel!
68. An image has the Buddha Nature if it contains
a clear liquid (water).
69. The Buddha likes five letter words.
70. An image has the Buddha nature if it contains
the word KING.
71. The ELVIS Rule: An image has the buddha nature if it
contains a 5 pointed star.
72. At least four pieces with two different shapes in
two different colors, eg black die, black stone,
white die, and white stone.
73. The image has a 1 but not a 6 or 9.
74. Buddha is to be seen in pictures with games that
show a different name than they go by as their main
entry in the database and the name can't be just
a direct translation.
75. Buddha-nature is in images where the box of
the game in play is partially shown or seen.
76. Buddha is present if the game is in its
starting position.
77. The image needs to have the 3 primary colors of red,
blue, and yellow.
78. Buddha can be found in images in which
components (pieces or cards) are on the table,
AND the game board.
79. An image contains the buddha nature if the outdoors
are visible.
80. KRAMERLEISTE: An image has the Buddha nature if
it contains a score track in use.
81. The picture must show a game being played and
a box of a different game
82. An image has the Buddha nature if and only if it
shows a game in play on top of a tablecloth.
83. The picture must show a translucid object.
84. The image must contain a non-game physical manifestation
of a game in the image.
85. An image has the Buddha nature if it is wider than tall.
86. Buddha is present in pictures with one or more hats
(hats not helmets).
87. Buddha is present in images where the corner field(s)
differ from the other depicted fields of the score
track* (be it by size, shape, colour, art, all of
the above)
88. An image has the Buddha nature if it contains a window
89.