On 22 July 2012 18:54, Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi there, > > Interesting! Not a game I've ever heard of before, but the package > description covers it thoroughly. > >
Perhaps not under that name, but this is more widely known these days by the name of its 1970 commercial version, "Mastermind". See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_%28board_game%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulls_and_cows Various forms of the game, not all word-based, are already in the archive: $ apt-cache search mastermind 4digits - guess-the-number game, aka Bulls and Cows ace-of-penguins - penguin-themed solitaire games colorcode - advanced clone of the MasterMind code-breaking game gnome-mastermind - Mastermind (TM) clone for GNOME Desktop gtkboard - many board games in one program sgt-puzzles - Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection - 1-player puzzle games Of course that doesn't preclude the addition of another. T
