Apr 28, 2015 · $\begingroup$ 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. $\endgroup$ –

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.

Jul 31, 2021 · 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.

Sep 23, 2022 · 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

Apr 18, 2020 · 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:

Nov 3, 2016 · 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.

Apr 12, 2020 · Can somebody help me solve this, or can you teach me how? 4 7 2 9 1 - One number is correct but not in right position 9 4 6 8 7 - One number is correct but not in right position 3 1 8 7 2 - Two nu...

Feb 2, 2023 · The variant can be made harder if a third small peg for "cold" (the number is not in the hidden code at all - equivalent to the empty slot in the original Mastermind) is mixed into the set of small pegs. Here is another example. In this example I will use three different symbols for each kind of pegs. (The order of the small pegs does not matter)

Oct 8, 2018 · The mastermind cannot lose. This can be achieved by the following strategy: 1: Place the Mastermind on the fifth rank, e5 for example. then * whenever white moves a (non-pawn) piece, move it back. Because white cannot capture white pieces, this completely cancels white's move, and is always a legal move, except in the case of castling.

May 27, 2019 · but I'm not going to tell you what it is. Instead you give me 6 letter words, and I mark them according to the normal rules of Mastermind. A 'word' can be garbage if you want, e.g. PZQABC, or a normal word like BUTTER. These get marked as 0r1w and 0r2w respectively. The answer word is a real word in this case.