Our Mastermind Game Rules

Here's a picture of Renz playing Mastermind with me where I'm playing as the codebreaker.

He's playing as codemaker and is checking and scoring my guess codes. Something frustrating with codebreaking is when the codemaker makes mistakes in scoring.

When a codemaker scores a code wrongly, the rest of the codebreaker's codes or tries get affected because the codebreaker bases his succeeding codes on the previous scores.

That's why we've devised our own rules and terms to put a little twist on the game.

Mastermind Game

Yesterday, Renz and I played the board game Mastermind. For the young ones out there, Mastermind is a board game that came out and became highly popular in the 70's.

As a child, I remember getting excited playing this game then simply because the rules were few and the objective was simple. It's not like chess where each chess piece had its own "rule". No wonder I never got good in chess.

The old Mastermind game I remember was a small case that was made of hard plastic that was brown colored. I think it looked like the one in the picture below from gamesmuseum.com: