Mastermind

Known as: Mastermind (game), Mastermind game

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…

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2011

In this paper we formally prove that the problem of cracking, i.e., correctly guessing, bank PINs used for accessing Automated…

2011

Mastermind is a popular board game released in 1971, where a codemaker chooses a secret pattern of colored pegs, and a…

2010

The Obama administration has continued to apply the wartime paradigm first developed by the Bush administration after 9/11 to…

2007

This thesis uses some of the key texts of the ‘romance revival’ of the late nineteenth century to develop a theory of the Man…

2007

This paper presents a systematic model, two-phase optimization algorithms (TPOA), for Mastermind. TPOA is not only able to…

2004

Preface.1. The Bomb in My Garden.2. Early Ambitions.3. The Centrifuge.4. Saddam's Grip.5. Shopping in Europe.6. The Crash Program…

1988

Logic programming is a convenient tool for stating combinatorial problems due to its nondeterminism and its relational form. It…

1984

There have been several recent articles in the SIGART Newsletter about the game of Mastermind (T. M. Rao, #82, E. Shapiro, #85, P…

1983

I was intriqued by Mahadeva Rao's paper in SIGART #82 on an algorithm for playing mastermind, and its Pascal implementation. In…