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Beating Mastermind: Winning Games, Translating Math to Code, and Learning from Donald Knuth
By: Adam Forsyth
Date: Nov. 8, 2018, 6 p.m.
Mastermind is a logic-based guessing game. Many years ago, Donald Knuth described a way to win the game in 5 moves or less. We’ll implement the game and the algorithm from the article. Come learn how to beat Mastermind and turn a paper by a famous scientist into code!