Mindbender, anyone?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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This is Mindbender and it’s very simple.

There are five colors that can be used: Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, and White.

However only FOUR colors will be used at any given time. The colors will be used in a four color mystery combination, like say, Blue Yellow Green Red. Colors may also be used more than once in a mystery combination, like say, White White Green White. It’s all up to the maker of the comination (AKA, whoever’s turn it is).

And whose turn it is is decided by who gets the previous mystery combination correct first.

You solve these mystery combinations with help from the combo maker.

A dash (-) means that a color that was mentioned in the guess IS in the Combo, but in the wrong spot. A star/asterisk (*) means that a color that was mentioned in the guess is in the combo AND is in the right spot.

For example, suppose the M.C. was: Red Blue Red Yellow

Now let’s say that Kat came in guessing “White Red White White”
I’d quote her guess with: -
(means one of the colors she guessed is in the combo but in the wrong spot, see?)

Or if Hal Briston came in with a guess of “Red Red Blue Green” I’d answer his quote with: *- -

White White White Yellow would get a *

Blue Red Yellow Red would get a - - - -

Blue Blue Green Yellow would get a **-
And so forth and so on.

Ready? Okay, I’ve got a mystery combination written down.
Go.

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red red red red

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Your location is curiously apt for this game. :slight_smile:

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Typing so this post won’t be “too short”.

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Red White White White

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Type

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Green Red White White

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**

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Green Red Blue Blue

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green red blue yellow

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Come on people. :stuck_out_tongue: You all can rush in with guesses. You won’t overwhelm me, I’ll just multiquote the topic.

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green red blue green

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Good job. Go at it, USCDiver.

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Are you guys playing mastermind?

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Yup!

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I used to play this (as the board game Mastermind) with my brother when we were kids. Player one put colored pegs in a board and hid them behind a little shield. Player two put his guess in the first row on the other end of the board; then player one would put smaller black and white pegs next to it (like your ‘*’ and ‘-’, they’re red and white in the picture on my link).

Then, in college, a friend of mine was writing a computer program to play against and he asked me to try it out. None of the clues were making sense. We got to talking about it, and we had both interpreted the rules differently. I don’t remember the exact issue, but it hinged on whether multiple pegs of the same color in the guess (or the answer) led to multiple clues.

So,

means, in order, “right color, wrong location”, “right color, right location”, “completely wrong”, “right color, right location”. The two blue pegs in the guess get two symbols in the hint, even though there’s only one blue peg in the answer.

But then

doesn’t make sense.

As it turned out, I found the game in the back of my closet. My friend and I were both doing it wrong.

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How not? There was only one red in the combination and since “red red red red” put the one red in it’s right spot, it would get just a *

  • = one of the colors is in the right spot.

** - two of the colors are in their correct spots. And so on.

The other reds were out of place and not even in the combo since I only count ONE red color.

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Also, I guess it doesn’t matter if anyone wants to think of/write down the next combo, just to keep the game going.

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Your example was “Red Blue Red Yellow”, and the guess “Blue Blue Green Yellow” gave the hint “**-”. Yellow is correct, so that’s one of the 's. Green is totally wrong. That leaves "-" for two blues in the guess, but only one in the answer.

I’m not trying to derail the game or anything, just want to understand the rules.