Welcome to Mastermind. I am the code maker. Best of luck cracking my code. . . . . . [Text of instructions spoken in game] I have set a four color code. Guess the code by clicking on the colors in sequence. After you have selected four colors, I will check your sequence. A red indicator means one of your selections was the correct color in the correct position. A white indicator means one of your selections was the correct color, in the wrong location. You have ten attempts to crack the code. Good luck!
Getting Unstuck 2020: Day 9 Create a project that does something interesting with a list. This is probably my favorite Getting Unstuck project yet. I love playing this game, and trying to recreate a mechanic that already exists helped me think more deeply about how I think while playing the game and how I might use lists to recreate that. It was easy to check for reds (guess position 1 = answer position 1 = red) but checking for whites was harder, and took some troubleshooting to make sure I wasn't "double counting" pegs. The code is pretty bulky, as a lot of it was me figuring out bit by bit and then snapping it together. If I was going to keep working on this, I would spend time using "MyBlocks" to clean that up a bit. I might also experiment with the number of possible colors and length of the sequence to make the game easier or harder. I put in a cloud variable to track user's wins and losses so I can see if changing the difficulty would be useful. Mastermind, the board game, was invented in 1970 by Mordecai Meirowitz, an Israeli postmaster and telecommunications expert. (Wikipedia)
