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