GMASTERMIND(6)

📦 version 0.6, in debian trixie, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 NAME 💖

GMastermind — bestie, it's a GNUstep clone of Mastermind and it is literally the moment. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

GMastermind

That's it. That's the whole thing. No flags, no drama. 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so GMastermind is a game built on top of the very well-known board game 'Mastermind' (TM, gotta respect the trademark bestie 🫶). It's a GNUstep situation, it's cute, it's brainy.

If you're sitting there like "how do I even play this", no worries — the whole how-to lives down in the USAGE section. Keep scrolling. 💅

🌸 USAGE 🌸

The way that you start this is: you run the command GMastermind and then the game GMastermind.app just begins. Main character entrance, honestly. ✨

So here's the vibe — your goal is to guess the correct combination of colored pegs that the program randomly picked. Randomly. You don't get hints. It's giving mystery.

To make a guess:

  1. Drag the pegs from the palette over to the holes at the top of the board. 🎯
  2. Once all four of the pegs have been placed, go up to the menu, hit "Game", and then hit "Commit".

Then — and this is the good part — you'll see a lil grouping of black and white dots sitting right next to your guess, and here's how to read them:

  • Black dots 💀 — one of your pegs is the correct color in the correct position. Slay.
  • White dots 🤍 — one of your pegs is the correct color, but it's in an incorrect position. Close but no.
Heads up: you only get up to eight guesses. If you haven't cracked the correct combination by then... you lose. Periodt. 😭

💅 OPTIONS 💅

Okay so real talk: GMastermind takes no options at the command line. None. Zero. Nada.

However 🫶 — the game can be customised by using the in-game menu. So it's all vibes and clicking, no terminal flags. Let's go through them:

  • Info -> Info Panel... — Displays copyright, author, etc. The receipts, basically. 📜
  • Game -> New game -> With replacement — Starts a new game where pegs of the same color can be used twice in the same sequence. Twins! 👯
  • Game -> New game -> Without replacement — Starts a new game where pegs of the same color cannot be used twice in the same sequence. No duplicates allowed, we're being exclusive. 🚫
  • Game -> Commit — Commit a guess. Lock it in bestie, no take-backs. 🔒
  • Game -> Move — Let the computer make a move for you. Delegation! We love a supportive computer. 🤖
  • Hide — Hide the program. Poof. 🫥
  • Quit — Close the program. Goodbye, iconic. 👋

🐛 BUGS 🐛

None known. Not a single one. She's flawless, your honor. ✨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

The original author of this program was Marko Riedel. Legend behavior. 🙌

It is now hosted on GAP (the GNUstep Application Project):

https://gap.nongnu.org/gmastermind/

Go give it a look, iykyk. 🦋

And that's the whole page, bestie! This little beauty comes to you from the Games Manual, dated October 2, 2024 — that's the source and version energy right there. Now go drag some pegs. 💖🌈⭐

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