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Pico Fermi Bagels
- 0x12 15y agoI spent hours playing mastermind as a kid and this modern day re-incarnation is a really nice twist on the theme. Mastermind was a nice primer for Sudoku, and probably those that are good at solving Sudoku are good at solving problems involving constraints in general.
- drallison 15y agoLooks like a web implementation of the old People's Computer Company game "Bagels" published in the classic What to Do After You Hit Return: PCC's First Book of Computer Games, now long out of print. PCC materials were published under a "free to use with attribution" copyright license, an really early version of the Creative Commons idea. I am not sure about the original source of the game, but I am pretty sure the use of "pico" and "fermi" was due to Bob Albrecht.
- hugh3 15y agoIt makes me feel far cleverer to be playing a game called "Pico Fermi Bagels" than a game called "Bagels". Someone knows how to pander to an audience.
- drallison 15y agoMaybe, but they were indigenous to the PCC version of the game: "pico" and "fermi" were responses indicating whether a digit (symbol) matched or not.
- jluan 15y agoThis game was one of the exercises my book made me do when I was starting to learn to program. The title of this post had me intrigued!