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Title says it all, any specific tricks? I always seem to go about it by randomly guessing.
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It’s a logic puzzle, I can usually breeze through most of them…, and some I think are impossible…although perhaps perfect play would get the answers…
The first step is to figure out the correct colors, worry about the order later.
I usually go all red. then change some to green depending on the reply, then blue, yellow. Hard to explain next part, just logic, I think there are some guides elsewhere in the forum…
or just google tips on solving mastermind.
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no of these puzzles are impossible…
solution for the puzzle within 4 Steps:
[http://helios.wh2.tu-dresden.de/~jooschi/boxlist.txt](http://helios.wh2.tu-dresden.de/~jooschi/boxlist.txt)
the colors are abbr. by numbers:
0:=red
1:=green
2:=blue
3:=yellow
start at the top:
0[0, 0] =\> try [0,0,1,2] means to test: red,red,green,blue
then look at your result: e.g. C=2, P=0, so you go down to:
1[2, 0] =\> try [0, 3, 0, 3]
^the leeding 1 shows that we had one try yet
test: red,yellow,red,yellow
result: C=1, P=1, so you go down to:
2[1, 1] =\> try [0, 0, 0, 1]
test: red,red,red,blue
result: C=0, P=1, so you go down to:
3[0, 1] =\> (3, 3, 1, 2)
round brackets announce solutions (if there are 2 solutions are listed: try one and in case of failure the other)
hope that helps you a bit ;)
ps: is there a need of redesign the solution more clearly?
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Actually,I have a method that helps me solve about 90% of the Colour Puzzle Boxes.
First,put all buttons to **Blue**.
Second,test each button one by one e.g. 1st **Green** rest **Blue**
Third,If no **P** comes out (means colour is in wrong column）don’t care about green any more,and try other colours.
It’s a bit hard to explain,but it works for me.=)
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> *Originally posted by **[jooschi](/forums/35/topics/75192?page=1#posts-1698277):***
>
> no of these puzzles are impossible…
>
> solution for the puzzle within 4 Steps:
> [http://helios.wh2.tu-dresden.de/~jooschi/boxlist.txt](http://helios.wh2.tu-dresden.de/~jooschi/boxlist.txt)
>
> the colors are abbr. by numbers:
> 0:=red
> 1:=green
> 2:=blue
> 3:=yellow
>
> start at the top:
>
> 0[0, 0] =\> try [0,0,1,2] means to test: red,red,green,blue
>
> then look at your result: e.g. C=2, P=0, so you go down to:
> 1[2, 0] =\> try [0, 3, 0, 3]
> ^the leeding 1 shows that we had one try yet
>
> test: red,yellow,red,yellow
> result: C=1, P=1, so you go down to:
> 2[1, 1] =\> try [0, 0, 0, 1]
>
> test: red,red,red,blue
> result: C=0, P=1, so you go down to:
> 3[0, 1] =\> (3, 3, 1, 2)
>
> round brackets announce solutions (if there are 2 solutions are listed: try one and in case of failure the other)
>
> hope that helps you a bit ;)
>
> ps: is there a need of redesign the solution more clearly?
Good indeed… Finally someone that had patience to make suck a scheme.. :)
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