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And the Mastermind variant "Word Mastermind" came out in 1972: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/5662/word-mastermind https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/566

• oasisbob 11mo ago
  Wow! That box cover image immediately brings me back to digging through the family board game box kept under my parents' bed. Vividly remember it, it was one of those mysterious/never-played games.
• doodpants 11mo ago
  But Word Mastermind (like regular Mastermind) only tells you how many letters are in the correct spot, and how many are present but not in the correct spot. Whereas Wordle tells you specifically which letters fall into those categories. So it's not quite the same. (That's why Wordle only gives you 6 guesses, while Word Mastermind has 10 rows.)
  • smcin 11mo ago
    Ok but in regular Mastermind, you get a white key peg for every code peg that is present but not in the correct spot.