Mastermind: The Puzzle Game
Genre: Puzzle
Platform: Browser (Flash)
Developed by: TheSwain
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The Scoop: Mastermind: The Puzzle Game is basically a bare-bones flash version of the classic board game of the same name. The fact that it’s single-player only defeats half the purpose and makes the game lose lots of its appeal. But the personality and premise injected by TheSwain amused me enough that I still played (and enjoyed) several sessions against the CPU.
If you never played the original Mastermind, lemme run it down for you. It’s basically a game of logic, and nothing else. Four colored pegs are inserted into four holes by your opponent, and hidden from view. You have ten chances to insert pegs of your own in the color/position combination you think your opponent chose. After each guess, you’re only given two pieces of information: how many pegs of the correct color you used, and/or how many pegs are in the correct color and the correct position. You then use this data to slowly work towards a final solution. Sometimes you might need to “waste” a turn placing four yellow pegs, just to confirm your suspicion that there’s no yellow pieces used in the solution, etc.
What TheSwain’s rendition of the game ads is a backstory, and a very amusing one, at that. Your nemesis, the one choosing the secret combination, is your typical over-the-top “evil mastermind” type, in the vein of The Tick or The Venture Bros. Making someone complete this kind of logic test seems like exactly the kind of thing a cartoon “league of evil” member would devise, as part of his evil plan. What he promises to destroy if you don’t get the combo right changes at the start of each match – I’ve come across promises to destroy Cambodia, outer space, tiny dogs, and others.
(5 votes, average: 3.40 out of 5)
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