“The Computer as Master Mind” PDF: https://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/teaching/cs3530/resources/knuth-mastermind.pdf https://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/teaching/cs3

“The Computer as Master Mind” PDF: https://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/teaching/cs3530/resources/knuth-mastermind.pdf https://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/teaching/cs3530/resources/k... It minimizes the worst-case, not the expected number of moves. I think Knuth’s algorithm can be beaten in that respect.