Inductive/Deductive reasoning in popular games

Game: Mastermind

I played the game mastermind. How you play is by trying to guess the sequence and colours of a 4 length hidden answer. There are 8 colours to choose from to create 4 circle code. When you guess the code if you get the right colour it shows you a small white circle and if you guess the right colour and spot it shows you a small red dot. From there you must use inductive and deductive reasoning to win. Inductive reasoning is good to use at the beginning, using examples as guesses. After gathering some information you can use deductive reasoning to put together the final answer. You can look back and see in what formations you had the right colour and spots and see past that to what colours have been there before and not gotten the little red dot, allowing you to see what needs to be there.

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