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Clever ways to solve Mastermind? - Puzzling Stack Exchange
Is there any specific way to solve Mastermind? Apart from the first step that is pure chance, is there any way to continue based on the colors that you think are correct?
How many guesses do you need at most to solve Mastermind variants?
Isn't the question how many you need at least in order to solve all possible answers, rather than at most (as written in the title)? At most, disallowing identical guesses, it's the same number as the amount of possible answers.
mastermind - Master Mind Rule ambiguity - Puzzling Stack Exchange
A recent question about Programming a Prolog solver for a Master Mind type problem generated a question about a scoring rule ambiguity for Master Mind, which is not solved by the Wikipedia page ent...
optimization - Optimal Strategy for Wordle Master Mode? - Puzzling ...
About a year ago, a friend and I created a custom variant of Wordle, called Wordle Master Mode. The gameplay is similar to Wordle, but with a couple of changes: Instead of 6 guesses, the player gets 10. Rather than highlighting individual letters, it's played like a game of Mastermind, where color-coded dots are added to the right of each guess, giving clues about the target word. If you're ...
Mastermind: What should I guess next? That depends
We start with usual Mastermind logic: Where can the second clue get a black dot from? Not one of the B’s otherwise clue 1 or 3 is broken. Therefore the first letter is E. The fourth clue tells us the second and third letters are D and C, respectively. That only leaves three choices: EDCC, EDCD, EDCE. Now the interesting part: The obvious strategy is guess randomly, e.g. choose EDCC first ...
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...
mastermind - History of "Bulls and Cows" - Puzzling Stack Exchange
Bulls and Cows is a game that predates Mastermind but is closely related. The wikipedia has for first dates of Mastermind as 1970. What is the earliest reference to the game Bulls and Cows?
Cross the Streams: Three's Company - Puzzling Stack Exchange
This is a Cross the Streams puzzle. A sort of nonogram on steroids. Quoting the rules from a puzzle whose theme I unintentionally reused: Shade some empty cells black to create a single group of bl...
Crack the lock code - Puzzling Stack Exchange
The tag mastermind was added a couple of days ago. Of course you need to make some assumptions to solve this puzzle, I will assume the puzzle is using base ten among other things, but I will not assume that mastermind's rules apply.
Triangles on regular pentagons - Puzzling Stack Exchange
The two regular pentagons share a vertex and an edge. The side of the larger pentagon is twice that of the smaller one. Which triangle has larger area, red or blue? Or do they have the same area?
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