Mastermind

Mastermind game simulator and solver in Python.

1. To learn how to play Mastermind board game and its variants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_(board_game)

2. To simulate the entire game (let the computer be both the codemaker and codebreaker):

python mastermind_simulator.py both

  code maker set to: ['green', 'blue', 'green', 'white']    
  code breaker start cracking:
  attempt 1: ['red', 'blue', 'green', 'white'], key pegs: {'black': 3, 'white': 0}
  attempt 2: ['red', 'blue', 'green', 'red'], key pegs: {'black': 2, 'white': 0}
  attempt 3: ['red', 'white', 'green', 'white'], key pegs: {'black': 2, 'white': 0}
  attempt 4: ['red', 'blue', 'yellow', 'white'], key pegs: {'black': 2, 'white': 0}
  attempt 5: ['black', 'blue', 'green', 'white'], key pegs: {'black': 3, 'white': 0}
  attempt 6: ['blue', 'blue', 'green', 'white'], key pegs: {'black': 3, 'white': 0}
  attempt 7: ['green', 'blue', 'green', 'white'], key pegs: {'black': 4, 'white': 0}
  solution reached after 7th attempt

3. To simulate the codebreaker only (require user inputs for number of black and white pegs):

python mastermind_simulator.py breaker

 attempt 1: ['red', 'white', 'white', 'green']
 num of black pegs:2 
 num of white pegs:1
 attempt 2: ['white', 'green', 'white', 'green']
 ...