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[–] 49 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)
  • [–] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Looks pretty similar to a game I had growing up called Mastermind.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 weeks ago

    I thought it would be connect 4.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    How does this differ from MasterMind? It looks like the same game with a different name.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I don’t think I’ve ever failed to crack Mastermind, even when I was a kid.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Maybe its a "what type of brain are you" thing? I did it every time and it was so easy. My brothers never could. They'd call me a cheater and demand to know how i did it and all I could say was "you know the rules, just look at the colours man, it solves itself"

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I prefer the physical game, where placing the pins takes longer time.

    Doing it on a screen is way too fast and really shows how simple the game is and destroys the suspension.

    For kids especially, the game trains the finer motor skill with those tiny pins.

    The clue pins are even smaller and tighter to fit, and it's also harder to figure out how to place those than the guessing pins, so the whole game is designed to be played by two kids, where one is older than the other, or a parent and a kid.

    I don't care much about guessing a random computer generated code. It's much more fun to play your siblings where the chance is higher of someone using the same code twice or making a code of all the same color, or screw up the clue pins and such.

    All of this interaction is missing when playing it against a computer.

    Anyway, by playing it online I only just noticed how similar it is to Wordle, which is better suited for online single player.

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