Zendobun

• Make sure your sentences are correct English sentences (unless you're playing in another language, then make it correct for that language). It's 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 there's 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. Someone 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 gender? 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 don't go assigning a gender to "banana".
• If everyone has email access within the same block of time, you can get a lot accomplished in one day. We played with 2 people in the UK, 2 on the east coast of the US, and one somewhere inland in the US. The game still went at a pretty good pace until . . .
• Our master went on vacation for a while and had spotty email access. The game was on hold for a bit, but it wasn't too bad, if you don't mind waiting a while. If it's a concern, it might be a good idea to make sure everyone is going to have email access for a period of several weeks, just in case the game goes for a while.
• For using guessing stones on a mondo turn, send the mondo guess to the whole list, and then privately send a note to the master saying that you may want to make a guess after the mondo. For using guessing stones on a master turn, you can also email the master privately when you make your guess, so that, if you decide not to make a guess, you haven't given away any more information to the other students.
• Until you get a feel for how difficult the rules are (we've only played one game, so we have no idea), I would recommend using very simple rules. Just like in regular Zendo, the game is still fun with an extremely easy rule, and you can always play another game. I won't say what James chose as our rule, in case you want to see the log and try to guess for yourself.