Cooperative Zendo

[Lambda]

aces
feet
speech
peach
gear
sear
seer
bees
beeswax
wildebeest

[Kappa]

pee

[DanielH]

That has less than four letters

[Kappa]

oh, i missed that hint because i was reading out of order

[Unbitwise]

DanielH: yes to colour
Lambda: yes to aces bees sear seer

Opinions on making the word list multi-column?

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Yes:
aces
bees
bookkeeper
boon
colour
keep
keeper
orange
sear
seen
seer
unseen

No:
beeswax
bell
belling
bells
biscuit
book
books
bulwark
colonise
colonize
color
cookie
defence
defense
feet
gear
geek
gray
green
grey
groom
keepers
keeps
magnificent
parallelled
parallellogram
peach
pee
peek
peeker
peekers
peeks
peep
picturesque
speech
transmogrification
which
wildebeest
witch
witches
witching

[DanielH]

secrete
secret
secretkeeper

easter
eaters

listen
silent

antidisestablishmentarianism
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Sure, go ahead, if it’s still possible. I was planning to try longer words anyway, though, I’m not doing this to mess up muli-column mode. Specifically, you said that all words are at least 4 characters; I thought longer words might have a higher chance.

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Yes to 'eaters'.

Hint to avoid wasting time on less-fun parts: The longest words in my /usr/share/dict/words that fit the rule are much shorter than 'antidisestablishmentarianism' and there are only 32 of that length.

Factoid: The approximate probability of a word being allowed by the rule is 0.05.

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Yes:
aces
bees
bookkeeper
boon
colour
eaters
keep
keeper
orange
sear
seen
seer
unseen

No:
antidisestablishmentarianism
beeswax
bell
belling
bells
biscuit
book
books
bulwark
colonise
colonize
color
cookie
defence
defense
easter
feet
gear
geek
gray
green
grey
groom
keepers
keeps
listen
magnificent
parallelled
parallellogram
peach
pee
peek
peeker
peekers
peeks
peep
picturesque
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
secret
secrete
secretkeeper
silent
speech
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
transmogrification
which
wildebeest
witch
witches
witching

[Lambda]

aced
iced
dice
boor
bore

ants
aunts
aunt
tans
snot

(I vaguely suspect it has something to do with alphabetical order, but there are some things that I just have no idea about, there...)

(No opinion on two-column mode, except that it sounds inconvenient to maintain if I'm ever the setter again.)

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Yes: boor bore dice tans
No: aced iced ants aunts aunt snot

[DanielH]

bet
bettor
debtor
better
best
besting
bets
betting
betted (listed as a valid past tense by Google)
vetted