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After playing Code Breakers (a MasterMind clone) at Neopets for a while, my head started to hurt. I thought there's got to be a better way to win this thing. Hunting round the Net turned up the two very good resources in the Links section. I've adapted Frans van Gool's excellent MasterMind Java Applet into my own Visual Basic beast.

My MasterMind Solver project shows all the remaining possible solutions at each stage of the game. This could be further optimised by deciding which is the best guess to elimate the most possibilities (and it's not necessarily one of the remaining possibilities). But this one works good enough for me - and it's simple too.

Downloads

  MasterMindSolver.zip - contains: Complete Master Mind Solver Project ( kb)

Links

The excellent MasterMind java applet by Frans van Gool (on which this project is based)

A very good article on MasterMind solving algorithms by Gary Darby

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