kyle-heller / mastermind

Mastermind board game implemented in Ruby

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A command-line version of the board game Mastermind, written in Ruby

Play Online at Replit: https://replit.com/@xsys/Mastermind#

Read more about the game here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_(board_game)

Problems

Create a playable version of the board game Mastermind. Allow the player to choose to be either the codemaker or codebreaker. When playing as codebreaker, accept string input guesses and provide appropriate feedback on the correctness of the guess. End the game when appropriate. When playing as the codemaker, have the CPU intelligently guess and end the game when appropriate

What I used

Ruby classes/objects, arrays, hashes, accessor methods

What I learned

How to use user input to change how a game runs, how to compare arrays, basic game AI, % notation