I played the Fallout 4 hacking Mini game it is incredibly similar to the mastermind game but there are differences, such as instead of Colored balls it is words that are used. The hacking mini game uses a likeness meter when you pick words the likeness is the measurement of how close or like the word you clicked is to the answer.
The strategy that I used normally is to brute force it and turn off my brain this is not how I should play the game, so I took a new look at it and one of the strategies that I used was the really easy one actually reading the words and looking for the similar ones. I did not do that previously.
The hacking mini game uses inductive reasoning as examples are used in finding the answer (if all has a likeness of 1 and aid has a likeness of 2 it is likely that the answer is the word is and) so that is an example of why it is inductive.