An algorithm to play the game of mastermind

1 October 1982

journal article
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM SIGART Bulletin

Vol. 82 (82) , 19-23
https://doi.org/10.1145/1056602.1056607

Abstract

The game of Mastermind (INVICTA) is played by two persons. It is quite popular and claimed to be quite complex. Recently, we were interested in computerizing this game. This paper summarized the method we discovered and implemented. Our method uses a simple list data structure to represent the knowledge gained. The algorithm was programmed in Pascal on a Burrough B-6800 machine. Some experimental results are presented at the end of the paper.

Keywords

ALGORITHM
MASTERMIND
GAME
LIST DATA
PAPER SUMMARIZED
SIMPLE LIST
DATA STRUCTURE
EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS
TWO PERSONS

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