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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Mastermind sounds kind of like Battleships.[/b]  We have fun with Battleships and Chess.[/quote]

Those are all great games, we have and love all 3 although DD5 hasn't quite grasped chess yet. I'm not really sure mastermind is all that similar to Battleship, though. Battleship is a lot of guessing at first to find the ship while in mastermind you are supposed to use clues and small bits of information to reason through the solution. It's still guessing in a way but the guess is supposed to be supported by logic. In mastermind the point is for one player (or in my girls' case both of them together) to figure out a color pattern that the other player (me) has hidden beforehand. The color options are white, red, blue, and green. They start by guessing the pattern, and then they are told how many colors they have correct and how many are in the right order. They have a limited number of tries to guess the pattern.

For example, lets say the hidden color pattern is (Blue Green Red Red). Their first guess is Red White Blue Green. I tell them that they have 3 of the four colors correct, but none in the right order. So next they have to guess which is the wrong color and get rid of it. Maybe they guess green is wrong, because they know I don't like that color, and replace it with a blue. Their new guess is Red White Blue Blue. So I tell them they have 2 of the four colors correct now. Since 2 is one less than last time, they should realize that taking away green was wrong. They put back the green and take away the white. DD5.5 points out that red is one of my favorite colors so maybe I used that. They replace the white with red. Now their guess is Red Red Blue Green. I tell them they have all 4 colors right but the order all wrong. Now they spend several turns trying to figure out the order. If they get the right answer before they run out of space on the game board, they win the game.

It's loads of fun, but sometimes they get frustrated still so I will give them hints or ask leading questions to suggest how they might solve it if that happens. The junior version is easier and probably a safer bet to start out with at this age, actually, but they learned about the regular version from their grandfather and would not settle for the junior version after that. [/quote]

Mastermind is an awesome game.  I used to play it as a kid and now play with with my own kids.  So simple, but fun.[/quote]

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