On: Using information theory to solve Mastermind

[madcaptenor]

I think you can distinguish between word games where it helps to know what the words mean (like crosswords) and word games where the meaning of the words is irrelevant, only that they are or are not words (like Wordle).

Weirdly, Scrabble resembles crosswords graphically but fits in the second group.

[yen223 → madcaptenor]

Sudoku is kind of the same, in that the numerical values of the numbers doesn't come into play at all. You can replace the digits with fruits and the game plays the same.

[cwmoore → yen223]

I enjoyed this comment. Fruit emojis don’t sum well, so by your classification separate out the similar Kakuro or KUBOK16 from Sodoku, and with that, I have to drop a plug for my https://www.kakurokokoro.com/ in which “clues” are the column and row sums.

[madcaptenor → yen223]

Except it’s harder to iterate over the numbers when they’re fruits. (Unless you have a list of nine fruits in your head you can rattle off.)

[ghaff → madcaptenor]

Although I must say I do like Connections where even subtle meaning very much factors in.