WORD Mastermind (*** Mobile Friendly ***) [** Stop Press: New Features, see below for details **] Click the Green Flag to receive full instructions. Hit Space or the (GO) button to start solving the randomly generated 4-letter word secret Code. Click a letter on the right side of the stage to choose it, then click on the position on the board where you want to place it. Hit the [check results] button to complete a guess. All guesses must themselves be valid words. If you guess a word not in the list of allowed words, a Red strike-through line appears over your guess. You do not lose a turn for it. Just change some letters and as soon as you make a valid word, it removes the Red line, then click the [check results] button again. NOTE: To get on the Leaderboard you only need to complete 5 Games in a row and solve at least one of them in 10 or less guesses (If you can't get a word in the 10 allowed guesses, it counts as solving it in 11 guesses). My record score was 3.8 guesses per word from 5 games (19 guesses in total) made with the following Words (# guesses): NAME (5), LIFE (3), WISE (4), TORN (2) & GENE (5). Obviously getting TORN on my 2nd guess was just a lucky fluke! I subsequently equalled that score with LOSE (2), GAME(3), DUAL (5), DOES (5) & ITEM (4). I could very easily have set a new record by getting the 6th word in 2 guesses, because LOSE is a common 2nd guess for me, but it was an extremely low probability that the game would pick the same random word twice in the one set of games, so it actually took me 5 guesses to get LOSE the 2nd time ... pity! I kept going and got POOL in 3, but that was followed by HOST & DAWN each in 5 so I stopped. I later changed it so it can't pick the same word twice in one set of games? WHOA! Just set a new record of 3.4 guesses per word (17 guesses in total) over 5 games with: ONCE (4), WISE (2), READ (3), KNOW (4) & DOOR (4)! I tried to improve it in a 6th game but sadly took 5 to get CAMP. However I think my best result, came when I averaged 4.00 guesses per game across a set of 8 games with: IDEA (2), SPOT (4), MISS (5), STEP (5), FORM (5), SING (3), LORD (4) & MOON (4). This game is basically just 4-letter Wordle, but it only tells you how many letters are right, not which ones! Like Wordle, most words should take you 6 or less guesses to crack. Have fun! [** New Features - updates since first shared ** ] (1) Anyone has has played Wordle often enough, has a favourite 1st Guess that they always use. This game is no different. So now after your 1st Guess in your 1st Game after clicking the flag, WORD Mastermind remembers that 1st guess. All subsequent games initiated by clicking (GO) or hitting Space will display that Word underneath the letters on the right. If you click it (while it is displayed), it will auto-populate your 1st guess with that Word. You can still change a letter or 2 after that if you want, or you can completely ignore it and choose completely different letters. If after playing a few games, you change your mind and have a new preferred 1st Guess, you'll have to click the Green Flag again to set it to a new word. I use it all the time now, because I always use the same 1st Guess. (2) The letters are now proper Tiles so it's much easier to select them, and they're arranged in a much more sensible order, as in left to right then down, making it easier to find the ones you looking for since that's the order we read in. (3) It now tells you how many words you guessed, how many you solved, and your average number of guesses per turn, at the end of each game. (4) Also in one random game between Games 2 & 5, it will pick a word from a small list of "fun" words. By fun, I mean that given the nature of the game, they are slightly ironic. For example each word in this sentence is in that list, "Find hard code word - easy, what?" I am happy to take suggestions for any other ironic words you think of, that you think should be in that list. (5) It now has a Leaderboard ... to get higher on the Leaderboard you need to get a Lower Average number of Guesses per Game. If 2 Scratchers are otherwise tied on the same score the one who played more games in order to get that score will be placed higher. You must play 5 or more games (without clicking the Green Flag again) to have your score recorded in the Cloud Data. (6) The same word will never be randomly picked twice in the one set of games (applied 22 August 2023). (7) The old Leaderboard (using a plug-in created by another Scratcher) only supported 8 users. I built a proper one myself that supports up to 40 Scratchers. Hope you like it!
Created by @gregatku for use in Coding Classes for Kids Unlimited, for whom I work as a Coding teacher. The project is a simulation of the classic Mastermind code cracking game, but instead of colours the secret code you have to guess is a 4-letter Word. Each guess must be one of the almost 4000 allowed words. The secret code word is chosen randomly from a list of 504 common 4-letter Words. Huge thanks to @colinmacc for allowing me to use the Word lists from his amazing Lingo project - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/489134201/ The project is effectively a remix of my Number Mastermind project - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/648925547/ Interestingly, I played "Number Mastermind" in the 1960's when I was a young kid, with my family and friends, using Paper & Pencil, many years before the award winning Mastermind game was invented. We called it Bulls & Shots, but some others called it Bulls & Cows. After a while we became bored with it, and decided to make it more interesting by making the secret code a Word, but where every guess also had to be a Word. If only I'd come up with the idea to turn it into Board Game, I'd be a wealthy man today. Although I had wanted to make this project months before Wordle had even been invented (when @colinmacc introduced me to LINGO), out of respect for the game Wordle, which was what motivated me to finally actually make this project, I turned the Black & White result markers to Green & Yellow ones instead. This list may help you decide which letter to try next? It's the list of how many times each letter occurs in the 2016 letters making up the 504 words from which the game picks a random code word: E 261 A 175 O 156 L 153 T 131 R 120 S 119 I 113 N 105 D 90 H 68 M 60 K 57 W 56 P 55 U 53 C 52 F 49 G 39 B 38 Y 29 V 22 J 7 Z 4 X 3 Q 1 Hope you enjoy playing it. I still do after all these years.
