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Mastermind in Wood


nikbud

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Hi everyone, this not a kit but it is made in wood so I hope it counts.....

 

I used to love playing the board game Mastermind - "A game of cunning and logic for two players - Break the hidden code!" when I was a kid and I recently introduced my 12 year old daughter into the joys of said cunning and logic. The original game had 4 holes to encode and after playing this for a while we decided to purchase from ebay the super 5 hole version. Unfortunately, upon arrival the game stank of age/mildew etc, so I made my own from (hopefully) spare wood from my Vivacia build.

 

The bottom box is made from 3mm board for the base and 4mm birch ply sides. 

The top box from; 4mm birch ply for the playing surface, 5mm walnut for the sides, 2mm lime strips and .5mm maple for the edging. the code cover was made from 1mm basswood sheet.  I know the holes aren't perfectly straight but its unnoticeable while playing.

 

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Cheers, Paul

Completed Build --- Virginia 1819 - Artesania Latina

Other Models      --- German Armor plus others    Mastermind

 

Current Build --- Liveship Vivacia

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2 hours ago, druxey said:

Nice, but how do you play this game?

First player uses colored pegs to create a five-peg "code" sequence. Second player makes a series of attempts at cracking the code. First player uses a second set of pegs to indicate 1) guessed pegs that are both the correct color and in the correct slot in the sequence, and 2) pegs that are the correct color but not in the correct sequence. Play progresses until the second player either cracks the code or runs out of guesses.

Chris Coyle
Greer, South Carolina

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Current builds: Brigantine Phoenix, Hawker Hurricane

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  • 4 weeks later...

Here is a picture of my daughter solving my code in 8 tries, as you can see it sometimes boils down to luck in choosing the correct combinations at the start; getting three black score pins in row 4 narrowed down her decoding.

 

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Completed Build --- Virginia 1819 - Artesania Latina

Other Models      --- German Armor plus others    Mastermind

 

Current Build --- Liveship Vivacia

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1 hour ago, Wallace said:

Last time I saw your post I said to myself that I have to get me this game again, now I really do have to make it!!

Fixed it for you Mark!

Completed Build --- Virginia 1819 - Artesania Latina

Other Models      --- German Armor plus others    Mastermind

 

Current Build --- Liveship Vivacia

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