K Yue
Abstract
Several articles have appeared in SIGART Newsletter on the game of Mastermind during the recent three to four years (1 - 8). In particular, P. Norvig described a heuristic for obtaining an approximation to the optimal solution(1). In this article, several simple heuristics to play Mastermind are analyzed.
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- Some heuristics for playing Mastermind
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