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Maxwell, you have a spelling mistake on the Success page. "Lock found in 20 attemps. You must hate this game by now."
PS: Pull requests are welcome ;-) https://github.com/maxwellito/breaklock
Solved the first puzzle on "easy" in 53 attempts. The first 20 attempts were me figuring out that the 4 dots beneath each try are not in the same order as I drew the pattern, so I can't directly deduce if a single dot is correct or not. Then it took me another ~8 attempts to find the four correct dots and then a very long time to get the order right. Fun game, interesting idea and nicely done! I'll probably play a fe…
It's surprising how effective Knuth's algorithm is. If I recall 4 or 5 guesses to solve 4 digit mastermind.
[1] Computer Recreations, Software – Practice & Experience 1.2, 201-204 (Apr-Jun 1971) [2] D.E. Knuth, The Computer as Master Mind, J. Recreational Mathematics Vol. 9 (1976/7)
I saw this game (Mastermind or originally called Moo or Bulls and Cows) in an article in Software Practice and Experience[1] in the 70's. A couple of years later I saw a very clear explanation of how to write an effective software opponent, written by Knuth[2]. It was a lot of fun to implement back in those days (first in Fortran and then in Pascal). I recommend the easy paper by Knuth. It's surprising how effective…
Interestingly, I find I'm using some similar logic to what I use playing Minesweeper. "Three of this quartet are in the pattern, one of this quartet is in the pattern, they overlap in two places, therefore the two non-overlapped points in the three-scoring quartet must be in the pattern."
First try took 19 attempts, second try took 13 and I think I can do better.
Solved the first puzzle on "easy" in 53 attempts. The first 20 attempts were me figuring out that the 4 dots beneath each try are not in the same order as I drew the pattern, so I can't directly deduce if a single dot is correct or not. Then it took me another ~8 attempts to find the four correct dots and then a very long time to get the order right. Fun game, interesting idea and nicely done! I'll probably play a fe…
52 attempts first here, then 25 then 20... exactly the same thought process.
Lucky to do in 10 attempts only