Game Played: Mastermind

Link to game: https://webgamesonline.com/mastermind/

How To Play: There are colors shown, and you have to drag the colors to a empty spot in the first row. On the side there are four circles in the shape of a box. It will state after you press check if any are in the right spot (there will be a red dot) or if any are the right color but wrong spot (there will be a white dot). If you have a row of four, there will be four circles in a line and to the side. You can choose to have more circles to guess. You will keep guessing until you reach the limit of ten rows, and it will then tell you what the color code was. The goal of this game is to guess the color code before it tells you what it is.

Strategies: Some strategies I used to win were guess some colors randomly and see if any are in the right spot. If any are, then I would try and base the next one close to that, and so on. If I didn’t get any right, then I would try a different pattern. That is what I used to play, it is a guessing game at first, then you can slowly begin to find a pattern and maybe guess correct.

Inductive or Deductive?: I think the game uses Inductive reasoning, this is because in the game you use logic to slowly figure it out. In the game, you have to think and figure out the pattern using the information given after you check the pattern. Then you can use that logic to figure out what color goes where and hopefully get the correct pattern. You have to evaluate every guess you try each time you go to another row.