Cooperative Zendo

[Timepoof]

'Adarin'?

[DanielH]

Testing Moriwen’s guess: we know 'aeiou' works.

'aoeui' (Dvorak keyboard left hand home row)

[Timepoof]

'nargles'?
'waffles'?

[pedromvilar]

'cz'
'czz'
'czzz'
'czzzz'
'cc'
'ccc'
'cccc'
'ccccc'

'aaa'
'aab'
'abc'

'qwertyuiop'
'asdfghjkl'
'zxcvbnm'

Yes to the first batch
No, no, yes to the second
No, yes, yes to the third

'fore'?
'bi'?
'frost'?
'ood'?
'ox'?
'yo'?
'you'?

No to all

...Is the rule "if the string contains vowels, they must be in alphabetical order, starting at a, not skipping or repeating any, but possibly stopping before getting through all the vowels"?

Counterexample: 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz' is a yes even though all vowels are repeated once.

'Adarin'?

No

Testing Moriwen’s guess: we know 'aeiou' works.

'aoeui' (Dvorak keyboard left hand home row)

No

'nargles'?
'waffles'?

Yes to both

Koans

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Yes
bbc
ccb
BBC
Bbc
b
bbcc
{emptystring}
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
aeiou
aeiouy
ae
bcz
c
abcdefghijklm
s
ss
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
bcb
cbb
back
bbcbbc
abcdef
bzc
zbc
zcb
cbz
czb
baeiou
aeioub
bcc
qwx
zym
myz
xwq
a
y
d
f
g
h
j
k
l
m
n
p
q
r
t
v
w
x
y
z
bb
cz
czz
czzz
czzzz
cc
ccc
cccc
ccccc
abc
asdfghjkl
zxcvbnm
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
nargles
waffles

No
bee
aac
baa
ebb
ooaa
aaaaaabc
ebbc
beec
nopqrstuvwxyz
qwerty
Fëanor
aa
be
even
eeb
cobweb
beebee
bbcbee
beebbc
bbbece
bbebec
ebe
ghijklm
nopqrs
tuvwxyz
bbce
bbceeeeee
odd
thistest
before
brood
box
e
i
o
u
aaa
aab
qwertyuiop
fore
bi
frost
ood
ox
yo
you
Adarin
aoeui

[Throne3d]

'aeioua'
'aeiouae'
'aeiouaei'
'aeiouaeio'
'aeiouaeiou'

'aeiouaeioua'
'aeioaeiou'

Edit: Guess: vowels must be in alphabetical order (edit: starting at a) (or loop round and be in alphabetical, i.e. a, e, i, o, u, a, e, i, …, breaking at any point in the chain, separated by any number of consonants), not skipping any and not repeating in a single 'loop', where they appear?

(I predict the top five are yes, then a yes and a no?)

[DanielH]

Part of my test above was motivated by noticing that so far anagrams all match

'AeIoU'
'AEiou'
'aeIOU'

'ay'
'ya'
'aye'
'Rae'
'Darren'
'Aestrix'

'Aydanci'
'Aydance'

[pedromvilar]

Throne's guess and predictions are correct!

Encrypted rule: Vzhlla liwicfqag ty ahm dmympu uhse nfctp tlmqi.
Encryption key for a Vigenère cipher: allhailthecoin
Decrypted rule: Vowels appearing in the string must cycle aeiou.

[pedromvilar]

Does else want to be Master for a new rule, for that matter? I found this fun.

[Throne3d]

I would prefer not to be Master, so going by "person to guess the rule is next Master" isn't a good idea here :P

[DanielH]

I have a rule in mind but can't run it at the moment; maybe I will ask to take a turn after the next round.

What is the process for going from that rule and that key to the encrypted version? Vigènere cipher?