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

Re:How to solve the "Mastermind" guessing game? (2009) by AtlasBarfed on Saturday January 13, 2024 @12:45PM (#38982455)

So they are doing a large problem space investigation with Python?

Are there libraries that will allow for full multicore utilization in Python from the numeric analysis stuff? Am I wrong that Python isn't a great language for a computational experiment like this?

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Re:How to solve the "Mastermind" guessing game? (2009) by lrasinen on Saturday January 13, 2024 @02:35PM (#38983658)

There's nothing large about that space. With 6 colors and 4 choices you get 1296 possibilities. Would have been peanuts even for the first 8-bit home computers.

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Re:How to solve the "Mastermind" guessing game? (2009) by bell-cot on Saturday January 13, 2024 @03:00PM (#38983935)

The "Super Master Mind" version goes up to 9 colors and 5 holes. It claims that expands things to 59,049 possibilities.

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Re:How to solve the "Mastermind" guessing game? (2009) by AtlasBarfed on Saturday January 13, 2024 @03:33PM (#38984264)

That's kind of strange, I only was peripherally reading the discussion and saw they were doing random/entropic strategies, which IMO you do if the problem space is so large that you can't wrap around it using normal exploration techniques.

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