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Mastermind – Classic app for iPhone and iPad


4.6 ( 8576 ratings )
Games Education Board Puzzle
Developer: CPH Cloud Company
Free
Current version: 3.0, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 29 Jun 2013
App size: 54.1 Mb

If you like the classic Mastermind™ game from the Seventies, then you will love this digital version. The game play is easy to adopt, and more addictive than ever in this great looking code breaking game, designed to reflesct the classic design from the Seventies.

You play against the computer and have ten tries to guess a hidden color code. After each try, you get a hint to see how many colors you have correct.

• Can you find the code?
• How fast can you crush the code?
• Are you a code crusher?

Beware. You can play it for hours on end, trying to crush the code.

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Mastermind for iOS is a classic puzzle game. The goal is to guess the hidden color combinations / code. Your opponent (iPhone, iPad or iPod) creates a combination of up to four colors and hides them at the top of the game board. Your task is to try out different color combinations until you match the hidden code.

The challenge is to pick the correct color code as quickly as possible — in other words, to see how fast you can guess the hidden color combination, become a code crusher and get on the high score list!

Pros and cons of Mastermind – Classic app for iPhone and iPad

Mastermind – Classic app good for

For a free game .. I think its a good way of using my brain during waiting times .. Addictive
I can sit for hours trying to crash the code like when I was a kid.
Like in preschool when i used to play it with my best friends
This feels every bit like playing at home with my cousin when we were kids. Great game - 5*
Game is great. Just like the same game from my childhood. Now, im actually decent at it. The only problem i have is the app kills the music i listen to in the background. Still, 4 out of 5 stars.
The title says it all. 30+ years of Mastermind, never left mine!

Some bad moments

The game doesnt even let me play...there is no check button to see if your combination is right and it freezes after press okay You cant even start a new game without deleting the app and redownloading it.
Touch targets are too small. There are very few ways to screw up this simple game, but they managed to find one.
I really want to play this game, but perhaps because of the formatting for an iPhone 5 sized screen, the check combination button is not showing in the bottom right corner of my iPhone 4S, so I cannot progress beyond my first guess or even see if it is correct. Please fix this and I will be happy to come back and give this a 5 star rating!
Im very disappointed in this game and it takes a lot for me to get disappointed. If I could give it 0 starts I would.
I was looking forward to playing this game.. However, you cant see the "check" button. Would like to play if you get this bug fixed...
First thing that youll notice is it seems to load twice. The splash screen comes up, flashes then comes up again. When you press play youre presented with a blank wooden board. No color pegs to choose from. If you press the Mastermind button the game happily tells you youve lost and asks you to try again. Try again and now you get color pegs to choose from. Hurray! I can play now! The controls are very clunky and hard to hit on an iPhone. You press which spot you want the peg in then press the color. You cant drag them. You can press a spot again to remove a color though if you make an error. But heres the funny part... Youll never know if you made an error! The game rules state that after you choose your four colors you then hit the check mark button to submit your guess. Its not even on the playfield! There is no check mark button anywhere. I even tried a few times to press where the rules said it was supposed to be. Nada. I can see the potential here but this is an Alpha build at best! How this got onto the iTunes Store is beyond me.