[Kde-games-devel] Re: Game Ideas

[Ian Wadham]

On Monday 14 February 2011 3:48:11 am Pranav Ravichandran wrote:
> Bulls and Cows <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulls_and_cows>, a
> code-breaking kinda game. The normal Bulls and Cows includes only the
>  number mode, but I actually found it quite entertaining and VERY
> vocabulary-enriching when it is played with proper dictionary words,
> something that I did out of a whim. My idea is to design a KDE version of
> this game which includes number and word modes. This might also fit under
> the KDE-edu project, as I've been asked to forward this idea to their
> mailing list :)
> 
That sounds an interesting game, as long as you do not call it Mastermind.
I used to enjoy Mastermind a lot (a commercial variant of Bulls and Cows),
as a logic challenge, when it was around in the 70s.

Cheers, Ian W.