How to solve the "Mastermind" guessing game? (2009)

Re:How to solve the "Mastermind" guessing game? (2009) by bschne on Saturday January 13, 2024 @09:52AM (#38980453)

ICYMI, 3blue1brown (Grant Sanderson) has a video applying information theory to solving Wordle, which is conceptually similar to mastermind -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v68zYyaEmEA

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Re:How to solve the "Mastermind" guessing game? (2009) by jeffbee on Saturday January 13, 2024 @11:24AM (#38981409)

There was also "Word Mastermind" which is almost exactly Wordle.

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Re:How to solve the "Mastermind" guessing game? (2009) by CyberDildonics on Sunday January 14, 2024 @12:10AM (#38987696)

You don't need "information theory", you can just make a text file with each option on its own line, then use grep on the command line for each constraint with pipes in between.

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Re:How to solve the "Mastermind" guessing game? (2009) by bschne on Monday January 15, 2024 @02:53AM (#38998393)

the point of 3b1b's video wasn't "how can I figure out what words are still an option", but "what is the optimal word to guess at each step to minimize overall attempts needed to solve". Picking a "good" word will give you more information about the actual solution than picking a bad word, so you will get there faster.

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