You're framing it like an information extraction game, but it is also frameable as a zero-sum minimax game. And its an easy, and common solution to games like t

You're framing it like an information extraction game, but it is also frameable as a zero-sum minimax game. And its an easy, and common solution to games like this. Read up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_(board_game)#Algorithms_and_strategies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_(board_game)#Algori... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimax#In_zero-sum_games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimax#In_zero-sum_games One of the early solutions to mastermind was by Donald Knuth. paper: https://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/teaching/cs3530/resources/knuth-mastermind.pdf https://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/teaching/cs3530/resources/k... an implementation: https://github.com/johnathanlouie/mastermind https://github.com/johnathanlouie/mastermind further development: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06183 https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06183