Play Super Master Mind online
Play Super Master Mind and evaluate your strategy! During the game, each of your attempts is compared to what the optimal strategy would have played, which can help you to progress.At each attempt, the number of possible codes is displayed, and the lists of possible codes are shown at game end.
Several displays (with colors or numbers) and modes (from 3 to 7 columns and from 5 to 10 colors/numbers) are possible.
Game scores are stored online to rank players and follow their progression.
Play on your smartphone by installing the Android app
or directly on your computer using your browser.Game rules
The goal of Super Master Mind is to discover a secret code made up of 5 colors randomly selected from a pool of 8, with duplicate colors allowed.The player makes successive attempts to guess the secret code.
After each attempt, feedback is provided using pegs:
- a black peg ⚫ indicates a correct color in a correct position,
- a white peg ⚪ indicates a correct color in a wrong position.
The game is won when the player receives 5 black pegs (meaning the secret code has been correctly guessed), or lost when the maximum number of attempts is reached. In the classic Master Mind version, the rules are the same, but the secret code consists of 4 colors chosen from 6.
More generally, code breaker games follow the format M out of N, where M is the code length and N is the number of available colors.
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Strategy evaluation: scores and performances
Behind the graphical interface, the program is assisted by a calculator which provides hints to help you understand the optimal strategy. This calculator compares what you played to what the optimal strategy would have played. For each code played, it compares "the average number of attempts to find secret codes" which is reachable when an optimal code is played to this same average number when your code is played, and then displays the difference next to your code, called performance.For example:
- 0.00 means that what you played was optimal: no difference between your code and the optimal code(s),
- -1.00 means that what you played was useless: 1 attempt was lost on average, hence -1,
- -0.50 means that what you played was not optimal: you lost 0.5 attempt on average to reach secret codes in comparison to an optimal code. That means that if the optimal strategy reaches secret codes in 4 attempts on average, your code (followed by an optimal strategy) will reach them in 4.5 attempts on average. Of course, if you are lucky, your inefficient code might turn out to be the secret code, meaning you would win instantly!