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[Zendo](https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/6830/zendo) is the logical thinking game of all time. i don't think there's anything that comes close. it was [invented or discovered](http://www.koryheath.com/zendo/design-history/) in 2001 by the late Kory Heath ([GNU](https://wiki.lspace.org/GNU_Terry_Pratchett)). 

the game was originally played with [icehouse pyramids](https://looneypyramids.wiki/), but sometime around the start of 2020 i decided that i wanted a version that i could show to my coworkers, who i was only seeing thru video calls [for some reason](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic). but hey, y'know what every remote office solution has?

<img src="/a/thats-right-flowcharts.png" alt="that's right! flowcharts!" title="that's right! flowcharts!">

flowcharts! how could we possibly communicate if we didn't have some sort of digital equivalent of a whiteboard full of shapes and arrows, right? so with that in mind, I present to you: Graph Zendo!

## graph zendo rules summary

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