[Game Thread] Word Mastermind

[GodRosen]

Word Mastermind Word Mastermind consists of 2 types of people. 1. The Mastermind: Is the person who has a secret word for everyone else to guess and 2. The Players: Everyone trying to guess the secret word The Mastermind: 1. Which ever player guessed the secret word for the last round becomes The Mastermind for the next round. 2. The Mastermind must share how many letters his/her secret word is. 3. Word lengths can range from 3 to 15 letters long. The fewer the letters the easier it is to guess. The more letters there are the harder it is to solve. 4. It is recommended that the secret word be placed in a secret text with a spoiler button so it can be referred to again in case of memory loss or alternative a red may be asked to assist if The Mastermind goes MIA. (Reminder to the players Reds are volunteers of RPGX and are not required to assist be sure to be extremely kind to them if asking for their help. Then if even after that they say no... Roll a die to determine who will become The Mastermind and abandon the last game. It's not that serious.) 5. After providing the length of the secret word The Players will guess words of that exact length. The Mastermind will advise the players of the words provided how many letters are right and in the right spot and how many letters are right but are not in the right spot. These are commonly referred to as "Right Right" and "Right Wrong". To clarify The Mastermind does not have to clarify which individual letters are the right letters, only how many not which ones. 6. When working with double letters The Mastermind shall remember that if the secret word only has a particular letter once but the guessed word has it twice The Mastermind shall only count one letter right. Alternatively if the secret word has a particular letter twice but the guessed word only has it once The Mastermind shall once again only count one letter right. 7. While not required The Mastermind can count the total number of Wrong Letters. Because Wrong Letters plus Right Right plus Right Wrong shall always equal the number of letters of the word. Wrong Letters can be counted by determining how many letters must be changed to reach the secret word.

Mastermind Tools Giving inaccurate Right Rights and/or Right Wrongs can greatly hinder The Players' ability to guess the secret word. As such to guarantee 100% accuracy if you are The Mastermind GodRosen and JaDeX have created and shared their Mastermind Tools. Contact either of them with questions about how to obtain your own copy of it if you can't figure out the links below. (Be advised JaDeX's Google Sheet is a much more efficient design then GodRosen's Excel sheet. But you go ahead and use whatever you like) Originally Posted by JaDeX105 Link to JaDeX105's google sheet. Link to GodRosen's Excel sheet

Example of Gameplay On a 3 letter game: Secret Word: Cat Guessed Word: Ate The Mastermind's Response: 2 Right Wrong Explanation: The Guessed Word and the Secret Word both share the letters "A" and "T" but the "A" in "Ate" is in the first position while it is in the 2nd position in the Secret Word therefore this letter is Right but it is in the Wrong position. It is Right Wrong. Additionally the "T" in "Ate" is in the Second Position but it is in the Third Position in the Secret Word. This letter is also Right Wrong. 2nd Guessed Word: Car The Mastermind's Response: 2 Right Right Explanation: The Secret Word is still "Cat" and because the first letter of the Guessed Word is "C" same as the first letter of the Secret Word this letter is Right and in the Right spot. It is Right Right. Additionally the second letter just like in the Secret Word is an "A" so this letter is also Right Right. The secret word will probably be guessed next round. On a 6 letter game (double letter example): Secret Word: Letter Guessed Word: Attend The Mastermind's Response: 1 Right Right 2 Right Wrong Explanation: The 3rd letter of the Guessed Word is "T" just like in the Secret Word. This letter is Right Right. The 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, and 6th positions of the Guessed Word do not match it's corresponding position in the Secret Word. There is only 1 Right Right. The Guessed Word has a second "T" just like the Secret Word but it is not in the right position so this letter is Right Wrong. Additionally the Guessed Word has an "E" but only one. Even though the Secret Word has 2 "E" we shall only count it once since only one was in the Guessed Word. Though as established before this letter is in the wrong spot. It is Right Wrong. Finally, the letters "A", "N", and "D" do not appear in the Secret Word at all. These are Wrong. If one counts the number of Right Right (1), the number of Right Wrong (2), and the number of Wrong Letters (3) they should get 6 the same number letter of word we are working with this round. As a Final Example look at this 15 letter game that was held in this thread:   The Secret Word in this game was: Procrastinating take a look and compare how the Secret Word determined the Right Right and Right Wrong of each word. Originally Posted by GodRosen Also here have a letter by letter break down table. P R O C R A S T I N A T I N G Right Right I N T E R N A L I Z A T I O N 5 B I O A C C U M U L A T I O N 4 F A M I L I A R I Z A T I O N 4 U N C O P Y R I G H T A B L E 0 D E R M A T O G L Y P H I C S 1 V E N T R I L O Q U I Z I N G 4 M I T O C H O N D R I A L L Y 0 U N E X C E P T I O N A B L E 2 M I S C O N S T R U C T I O N 5 C O M P U T E R I Z A T I O N 4 P R E C O N S T R U C T I O N 7 D I S C O N T I N U A T I O N 4 P H O T O C O N D U C T I O N 4 C I R C U M S C R I P T I O N 4 O V E R C O N S U M P T I O N 2 P R E C O N D I T I O N I N G 6 P R E K I N D E R G A R T E N 3 P R E P O N D E R A N C I E S 3 P R E S Y N A P T I C A L L Y 2

 

Word Mastermind.
1. The person who won last round chooses a word (They will be referred to as The Mastermind)
2. That person tells everyone how many letters
3. Anyone else (we can call them The Players) guesses a word and The Mastermind will state how many letters are right and how many are in the right spot (Commonly referred to as "Right Right" and "Right Wrong")

example play.
Host chooses the word Cat.
player 1 chooses Ate.
Host will then tell player 1 that 2 letters are right but are in the wrong spot. Or "2 Right Wrong." for short
Then if the next word is car the host will tell the player that 2 letters are right and in the right spot or "2 Right Right" for short.

The game I got inspired to run this from typically only allows the player(s) 10 tries before declaring they lost. I don't care if we stick to that or not. Especially since said game only dealt with 3 and 4 letter words and this thread isn't limited to that.

Finally, I would recommend that the host upon choosing their word put it in secret and spoiler tags so they can look back at it as a reminder if necessary.

I will start us off.


Edit: After several rounds have been played it has come to my attention that maybe some additional info shall be added here.

If you are the one with the secret wordThe Mastermind please take advantage of these Mastermind Tools to help you in giving out the correct number of Right Rights and Right Wrongs every time.

Originally Posted by JaDeX105

Link to JaDeX105's google sheet.

Link to GodRosen's Excel sheet (BTW... JaDeX's Google Sheet is more efficient in design. Use JaDeX's Google Sheet over my Excel Sheet. It's okay I won't take offense to it.)

Questions get asked pretty frequently about Double Letters.



Here is how Bananabadger explains it:

Originally Posted by bananabadger

Double letters count, in effect, as separate single letters. Once a letter is "used up" in either column, it cannot be counted again, but the second instance of it can

But I would like to add to what he said by saying

Originally Posted by GodRosen

So as an example let's say the secret word is Letter and the guessed word is Attend. There is 1 Right Right (the 3rd position T) and 2 Right Wrong (the other T and the E) now one more thing to consider is how many letters are wrong? A, N, and D are not in the word Letter and so you have 3 wrong letters. 1 RR, 2 RW, 3 wrong 6 letters total. I hope this helps.

[GodRosen]

6 Letter Word. GO.

[bananabadger]

Secret

[GodRosen]

1 Right Wrong

[bananabadger]

Select

[GodRosen]

Originally Posted by bananabadger

Select

None

[bananabadger]

Roomba

[GodRosen]

1. Secret - 1 right wrong
2. Select - None
3. Roomba - 3 right wrong

[bananabadger]

Abrood

[GodRosen]

1. Secret - 1 right wrong
2. Select - None
3. Roomba - 3 right wrong
4. Abrood - 1 right right. 3 right wrong

[bananabadger]

Sector

[GodRosen]

1. Secret - 1 right wrong
2. Select - None
3. Roomba - 3 right wrong
4. Abrood - 1 right right. 3 right wrong
5. Sector - 1 right right. 1 right wrong

[bananabadger]

Shroom

[GodRosen]

1. Secret - 1 right wrong
2. Select - None
3. Roomba - 3 right wrong
4. Abrood - 1 right right. 3 right wrong
5. Sector - 1 right right. 1 right wrong
6. Shroom - 1 right right. 1 right wrong


Do you have a goal number of tries to beat this in?

[bananabadger]

Trying for 10 guesses. You can probably figure out my strategy of isolating letters, but I need to take some guesses soon.
Btw, just to clarify, I am assuming each letter is treated individually, even if the same letter repeats. If, for example, a word had 2 zeds, and I typed in jazzy when you were thinking of pizza, then you would say 1 right wrong (a) 2 right right (the zeds).