If you like Wordle, check out MasterMind

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_(board_game)

It came out in 1970, I had it around '73 in college, one of those things you play in the coffee shop.

at that time, I was playing chess, and the game kept the brain cells sharp. Later I switched to Go.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_(board_game)

[applegrove]

1. Played it all the time growing up. Great game.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. I was thinking today that Wordle is like MasterMind/Suduko combined.n/t

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[applegrove]

4. Don't know Whortle. Never heard of it.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. Huge thread about it here, this am

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1018&pid=1608432

[CrispyQ]

2. I used to be so lucky at my first guess that my cousin said I had ESP.

I hadn't played it in years then I got the app. It's still fun, but I'm not as lucky as I used to be.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. I think I still have the original game in a box around here somewhere...

My mental picture is that it is a wooden board like Cribbage, but at the rate my brain cells are dying off from old age, I could be wrong.
An app, you say?

[CrispyQ]

10. The app is called Codebreaker, but I'm sure there are lots of Mastermind versions available.

My Mastermind must have been newer since it was plastic. I got rid of it years ago, but I did keep my Spirograph.

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. What's Spirograph? n/t

[Laffy Kat]

6. That's exactly what it is!

It simply uses letters instead of numbers. It was the first thing I thought about. Still, I'm hooked.

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. And Boggle.

I play Boggle all the time, online, single player. It's an easy brain scratch-er.
Strangely enuff, don't like crossword puzzles.

Wordle looks to be equally fun and irritating, will try it for awhile.

[Laffy Kat]

13. I got frustrated with the one this morning...

But finally got it on the fourth try. In my defense, I hadn't had coffee yet.

[leftieNanner]

8. We have this game

My husband used to play it with our two kids. Only ours has FIVE peg spots instead of just four.

Plus, hubby had an additional option for the colored pegs - a blank! Our older daughter loved this game (now she has a PhD in Physical Chemistry - good brain!) and I remember the first time he used the blank and she was confused. "Daddy, you're tricking me!" she said. And she was right!

We also used to play poker with the kids, but that's a different story.

[TexasBushwhacker]

9. It's "Wordle"

The inventor's name is Wardle, so it's a play on that. He has also sworn to not monetize it, but others have made clone apps.

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. will correct. n/t