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Mastermind

Designer(s)	Mordecai Meirowitz
Years active	1970 to present
Genre(s)	Board game Paper & pencil game [root]
Players	2
Setup time	< 5 minutes
Playing time	10–30 minutes
Random chance	Negligible
Age range	8 and up

Mastermind or Master Mind is a code-breaking game for two players. The modern game with pegs was invented in 1970 by Mordecai Meirowitz, an Israeli postmaster and telecommunications expert.^[1][2] It resembles an earlier pencil and paper game called Bulls and Cows that may date back a century.

Gameplay and rules[edit]

The game is played using:

• a decoding board, with a shield at one end covering a row of four large holes, and twelve (or ten, or eight, or six) additional rows containing four large holes next to a set of four small holes;
• code pegs of six different colors (or more; see Variations below), with round heads, which will be placed in the large holes on the board; and
• key pegs, some colored black, some white, which are flat-headed and smaller than the code pegs; they will be placed in the small holes on the board.

The two players decide in advance how many games they will play, which must be an even number. One player becomes the codemaker, the other the codebreaker. The codemaker chooses a pattern of four code pegs. Duplicates and blanks are allowed depending on player choice, so the player could even choose four code pegs of the same color or four blanks. In the instance that blanks are not elected to be a part of the game, the codebreaker may not use blanks in order to establish the final code. The chosen pattern is placed in the four holes covered by the shield, visible to the codemaker but not to the codebreaker.^[3]

The codebreaker tries to guess the pattern, in both order and color, within eight to twelve turns. Each guess is made by placing a row of code pegs on the decoding board. Once placed, the codemaker provides feedback by placing from zero to four key pegs in the small holes of the row with the guess. A colored or black key peg is placed for each code peg from the guess which is correct in both color and position. A white key peg indicates the existence of a correct color code peg placed in the wrong position.^[4]

If there are duplicate colours in the guess, they cannot all be awarded a key peg unless they correspond to the same number of duplicate colours in the hidden code. For example, if the hidden code is red-red-blue-blue and the player guesses red-red-red-blue, the codemaker will award two colored key pegs for the two correct reds, nothing for the third red as there is not a third red in the code, and a colored key peg for the blue. No indication is given of the fact that the code also includes a second blue.^[5]

Once feedback is provided, another guess is made; guesses and feedback continue to alternate until either the codebreaker guesses correctly, or all rows of the decoding boards are full.

Traditionally, players can only earn points when playing as the codemaker. The codemaker gets one point for each guess the codebreaker makes. An extra point is earned by the codemaker if the codebreaker is unable to guess the exact pattern within the given number of turns. (An alternative is to score based on the number of key pegs placed.) The winner is the one who has the most points after the agreed-upon number of games are played.

Other rules may be specified.^[6]

History[edit]

The game is based on an older, paper based game called Bulls and Cows. A computer adaptation of it was run in the 1960s on Cambridge University’s Titan computer system, where it was called 'MOO'. This version was written by Frank King. There was also another version for the TSS/8 time sharing system, written by J.S. Felton and finally a version for the Multics system at MIT by Jerrold Grochow.^[7]

The modern game with pegs was invented in 1970 by Mordecai Meirowitz, an Israeli postmaster and telecommunications expert. eclipse 1.7 download mac Meirowitz presented the idea to many major toy companies but, after showing it at the Nuremberg International Toy Fair, it was picked up by a plastics company, Invicta Plastics, based near Leicester, UK. Invicta purchased all the rights to the game and the founder, Edward Jones-Fenleigh, refined the game further. It was released in 1971–2.^[1][2][8]

Since 1971, the rights to Mastermind have been held by Invicta Plastics. (Invicta always named the game Master Mind.) They originally manufactured it themselves, though they have since licensed its manufacture to Hasbro worldwide, with the exception of Pressman Toys and Orda Industries who have the manufacturing rights to the United States and Israel, respectively.^[9]

Starting in 1973, the game box featured a photograph of a man in a white jacket seated in the foreground, with a young Asian woman of high caste standing behind him with the golden symbols of office visible on her sari, denoting the power and intellect behind the throne. The two amateur models (Bill Woodward and Cecilia Fung) reunited in June 2003 to pose for another publicity photo.^[10]

Algorithms and strategies[edit]

Before asking for a best strategy of the codebreaker one has to define what is the meaning of 'best': The minimal number of moves can be analyzed under the conditions of worst and average case and in the sense of a minimax value of a zero-sum game in game theory.

Best strategies with four pegs and six colors[edit]

With four pegs and six colours, there are 6⁴ = 1296 different patterns (allowing duplicate colours).

Worst case: Five-guess algorithm[edit]

In 1977, Donald Knuth demonstrated that the codebreaker can solve the pattern in five moves or fewer, using an algorithm that progressively reduces the number of possible patterns.^[11]The algorithm works as follows:

1. Create the set S of 1296 possible codes (1111, 1112 .. 6665, 6666)
2. Start with initial guess 1122 (Knuth gives examples showing that other first guesses such as 1123, 1234 do not win in five tries on every code)
3. Play the guess to get a response of coloured and white pegs.
4. If the response is four colored pegs, the game is won, the algorithm terminates.
5. Otherwise, remove from S any code that would not give the same response if it (the guess) were the code.
6. Apply minimax technique to find a next guess as follows: For each possible guess, that is, any unused code of the 1296 not just those in S, calculate how many possibilities in S would be eliminated for each possible colored/white peg score. The score of a guess is the minimum number of possibilities it might eliminate from S. A single pass through S for each unused code of the 1296 will provide a hit count for each coloured/white peg score found; the coloured/white peg score with the highest hit count will eliminate the fewest possibilities; calculate the score of a guess by using 'minimum eliminated' = 'count of elements in S' - (minus) 'highest hit count'. From the set of guesses with the maximum score, select one as the next guess, choosing a member of S whenever possible. (Knuth follows the convention of choosing the guess with the least numeric value e.g. 2345 is lower than 3456. Knuth also gives an example showing that in some cases no member of S will be among the highest scoring guesses and thus the guess cannot win on the next turn, yet will be necessary to assure a win in five.)
7. Repeat from step 3.

Average case[edit]

Subsequent mathematicians have been finding various algorithms that reduce the average number of turns needed to solve the pattern: in 1993, Kenji Koyama and Tony W. Lai performed an exhaustive depth-first search showing that the optimal method for solving a random code could achieve an average of 5625/1296 = 4.3403 turns to solve, with a worst-case scenario of six turns.^[12]

Minimax value of game theory[edit]

The minimax value in the sense of game theory is 5600/1290 = 4.341. The minimax strategy of the codemaker consists in a uniformly distributed selection of one of the 1290 patterns with two or more colors.^[13]

Genetic algorithm[edit]

A new algorithm with an embedded genetic algorithm, where a large set of eligible codes is collected throughout the different generations. The quality of each of these codes is determined based on a comparison with a selection of elements of the eligible set.^[14][15] This algorithm is based on a heuristic that assigns a score to each eligible combination based on its probability of actually being the hidden combination. Since this combination is not known, the score is based on characteristics of the set of eligible solutions or the sample of them found by the evolutionary algorithm.

The algorithm works as follows:

1. Set i = 1
2. Play fixed initial guess G₁
3. Get the response X₁ and Y₁
4. Repeat while X_i ≠ P:
   1. Increment i
   2. Set E_i = ∅ and h = 1
   3. Initialize population
   4. Repeat while h ≤ maxgen and E_i ≤ maxsize:
      1. Generate new population using crossover, mutation, inversion and permutation
      2. Calculate fitness
      3. Add eligible combinations to E_i
      4. Increment h
   5. Play guess G_i which belongs to E_i
   6. Get response X_i and Y_i

Complexity and the satisfiability problem[edit]

In November 2004, Michiel de Bondt proved that solving a Mastermind board is an NP-complete problem when played with n pegs per row and two colors, by showing how to represent any one-in-three 3SAT problem in it. He also showed the same for Consistent Mastermind (playing the game so that every guess is a candidate for the secret code that is consistent with the hints in the previous guesses).^[16]

The Mastermind satisfiability problem is a decision problem that asks, 'Given a set of guesses and the number of colored and white pegs scored for each guess, is there at least one secret pattern that generates those exact scores?' (If not, then the codemaker must have incorrectly scored at least one guess.) In December 2005, Jeff Stuckman and Guo-Qiang Zhang showed in an arXiv article that the Mastermind satisfiability problem is NP-complete.^[17]

Variations[edit]

Varying the number of colors and the number of holes results in a spectrum of Mastermind games of different levels of difficulty. Another common variation is to support different numbers of players taking on the roles of codemaker and codebreaker. The following are some examples of Mastermind games produced by Invicta, Parker Brothers, Pressman, Hasbro, and other game manufacturers:

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Game	Year	Colors	Holes	Comments
Mastermind	1972	6	4	Original version
Bagels[18]	1972	10 digits	3	Also played as a word game with 2- or 3-digit numbers
Royale Mastermind	1972	5 colors × 5 shapes	3
Mastermind44	1972	6	5	For four players
Grand Mastermind	1974	5 colors × 5 shapes	4
Super Mastermind (a.k.a. Deluxe Mastermind; a.k.a. Advanced Mastermind)	1975 (in Poland - Copyright Invicta 1972 in cooperation with Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza[19])	8	5
Word Mastermind	1975	26 letters	4	Only valid words may be used as the pattern and guessed each turn.
Mini Mastermind	1976	6	4	Travel-sized version; room for only six guesses
Number Mastermind	1976	6 digits	4	Uses numbers instead of colors. The codemaker may optionally give, as an extra clue, the sum of the digits.
Electronic Mastermind (Invicta)	1977	10 digits	3, 4, or 5	Uses numbers instead of colors. Handheld electronic version. Solo or multiple players vs. the computer. Invicta branded.
Walt Disney Mastermind	1978	5	3	Uses Disney characters instead of colors
Mini Mastermind (a.k.a. Travel Mastermind)	1988	6	4	Travel-sized version; room for only six guesses
Mastermind Challenge	1993	8	5	Both players simultaneously play code maker and code breaker.
Parker Mastermind	1993	8	4
Mastermind for Kids	1996	6	3	Animal theme
Mastermind Secret Search	1997	26 letters	3-6	Valid words only; clues are provided letter-by-letter using up/down arrows for earlier/later in the alphabet.
Electronic Hand-Held Mastermind (Hasbro)	1997	6	4	Handheld electronic version. Hasbro.
New Mastermind	2004	8	4	For up to five players
Mini Mastermind	2004	6	4	Travel-sized self-contained version; room for only eight guesses

The difficulty level of any of the above can be increased by treating “empty” as an additional color or decreased by requiring only that the code's colors be guessed, independent of position.

Computer and Internet versions of the game have also been made, sometimes with variations in the number and type of pieces involved and often under different names to avoid trademark infringement. Mastermind can also be played with paper and pencil.There is a numeral variety of the Mastermind in which a 4-digit number is guessed.^[20]

The game was compiled into Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics for the Switch under the name 'Hit & Blow'.^[21]

References[edit]

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7. ^Francis, John (January 2010). 'Strategies for playing MOO, or 'Bulls and Cows''(PDF). Archived from the original(PDF) on 2012-04-25. Retrieved 2017-12-26.
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10. ^'Landmark Reunion for Mastermind Box Models'. Retrieved 2006-10-05.
11. ^Knuth, Donald (1976–77). 'The Computer as Master Mind'(PDF). J. Recr. Math. (9): 1–6.
12. ^Koyama, Kenji; Lai, Tony (1993). 'An Optimal Mastermind Strategy'. Journal of Recreational Mathematics (25): 230–256.
13. ^Knuth, Donald (2011). Selected papers on fun and games. Center for the Study of Language and Information. p. 226. ISBN9781575865843.
14. ^Berghman, Lotte (2007–2008). 'Efficient solutions for Mastermind using genetic algorithms'(PDF). K.U.Leuven (1): 1–15.
15. ^Merelo, J. J.; Mora, A. M.; Cotta, C.; Runarsson, T. P. (2012). 'An experimental study of exhaustive solutions for the Mastermind puzzle'. arXiv:1207.1315. Bibcode:2012arXiv1207.1315M.Cite journal requires journal= (help)
16. ^De Bondt, Michiel C. (November 2004). 'NP-completeness of Master Mind and Minesweeper'. Radboud University Nijmegen.Cite journal requires journal= (help)
17. ^Mastermind is NP-Complete Retrieved 2010-09-02.
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21. ^'Nintendo Shares A Handy Infographic Featuring All 51 Worldwide Classic Clubhouse Games'. Nintendo Life. Retrieved 2020-07-21.

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