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- Clever ways to solve Mastermind? - Puzzling Stack Exchange
$\begingroup$ I wrote a script that bruteforces this algorithm against all solutions (6 color mastermind) and it showed that it found a solution in an average of 5 76 tries and a maximum of 9 tries! So this algorithm actually solves the game on my mastermind board where you get 10 moves to try to win $\endgroup$ –
- mastermind - Guess my number - Puzzling Stack Exchange
There is a popular game called Mastermind in which one player guesses another player's secret sequence - it could be a word, some colors, or numbers The guesser says a possible sequence, and they get back the number of correct numbers in the right spot and the number of correct numbers in the wrong spot
- Mastermind: What should I guess next? That depends
This is a completely standard game of Mastermind within the video game There are no special rules Black dots mean "right color, right place" and white dots mean "right color, wrong place" The six colors that Bob already used in guesses are the only colors available This is not a lateral-thinking puzzle I came up with this puzzle myself
- mastermind - Master Mind Rule ambiguity - Puzzling Stack Exchange
In the paper Mastermind is NP-Complete by Jeff Stuckman and Guo-Qiang Zhang give the following definition of b (the number of black pegs) and w-b (the number of white pegs) To make things short, they go for scoring method (2): So, to make the labeling clear:
- What is the optimal first move in Mastermind?
Any first move is equal, as long as it follows the pattern XXYY The way you number the holes in the first move is only a base reference point for the subsequent moves
- word - Cryptic Mastermind - Puzzling Stack Exchange
And now for something completely different: Cryptic Mastermind! Given below are five sets of five cryptic clues each, all resulting in five-letter words The black and white pegs, like in regular Mastermind, indicate the number of correct letters
- mastermind - History of Bulls and Cows - Puzzling Stack Exchange
According to codebreaker-mastermind-superhirn blogspot co uk The exact year when the number guessing game Bulls and Cows was invented is not known "Bulls and Cows has been played as a paper-and-pencil game for a century or more
- Mastermind: Win in two - Puzzling Stack Exchange
Bob was very lucky in his last game of Mastermind Alice was the codemaker; Bob was the codebreaker They played with six colors and a length four code Bob's first guess wasn't an immediate win But after Alice scored the first guess, Bob was confident "Then it must be this!" he said of his second guess
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