Master Match (Cont.)

Master Match Guess Example

In the example above, your first guess (on the bottom row) gives a match result of 1/2. This tells you that one peg is the correct color and is in the correct place, and two pegs are the correct color, but are not in the correct place.

For your second guess, the match result of 0/2 tells you that two of the pegs are the correct color, but none of the pegs are in the correct place.

You learn at least two things from the combination of these two results:
1. Although you used three of the same colors of pegs in your first and second guess, in your second guess, only two pegs were the correct color (three were correct in the first guess). So you know that yellow (the only color you omitted) is definitely in the puzzle, and the new color, purple, is definitely not in the puzzle.
2. Although you left white in the same place in each guess, the result for Correct Place & Color changed from 1 to 0 (nothing), so you know that white is definitely not in the correct place.

For your next guess, you should add a yellow peg to your guess, and you might want to try guessing white in a different place. Note that although you know yellow is in the puzzle, you don't know which of the other colors in your first guess is correct or incorrect.

Normally, each peg in the secret code is a different color; for a more challenging game, you can use two or more pegs of the same color.

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