Playing mastermind logically

  • Authors:
  • Ehud Shapiro

  • Affiliations:
  • The Weismann Institute of Science, Rehovot, ISRAEL

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGART Bulletin
  • Year:
  • 1983

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Abstract

I was intriqued by Mahadeva Rao's paper in SIGART #82 on an algorithm for playing mastermind, and its Pascal implementation. In this note I suggest a simpler algorithm for playing mastermind, and describe a miniature Prolog implementation of it.