Break the Code / Mastermind - Round 2, 5 digits!

[TristanLuigi]

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| 19 guesses remain. |
|  Enter code: 7568  |
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Nice start.

[Ad Bot]

[.:FancyPants:.]

ok so just for clarification, you're going by the same rules; that if, say the answer code that we were trying to guess for was #58#
then in this case
* the 5 was there and was in the correct place (so it was an X)
* the 8 was there but not in the correct place (so it was a /)
so in this situation it usually would have been [ ] [X] [ ] [/]
but instead, because the # and the other # were not significant, you shift everything over to the left, right?
so it's [X] [/] [ ] [ ]

[TristanLuigi]

The indicators are ordered X's first,  then slashes.  The order of the indicators means nothing.

[.:FancyPants:.]

oh well that makes this like 500x harder
so what we know is that the code is either
7--- or
-5-- or
--6- or
---8
and that within one of those four codes is another number from 7568
leaving us with 4(4*3) = 48 different possibilities based on those two numbers alone
add in the fact that the other 2 digits that can range anywhere within the ten digit range and you're looking at (2*10)*4(4*3) = 960 different possibilities??
i think i'm forgetting something but either way it ain't pretty
let's get cracking
i think it's best if we try out one new number and use one of the four confirmations i said above
let's try --6-
and throw in a 3
make sure we keep two of the numbers from 7568 in case we get lucky, how about 5 and 8?
toss it around and let's give it a go

8365


edit note: for those that actually read and understood all that junk up there (probably none of you) i was also taking into account the idea that the X and / may have been created because the number was repeating a digit twice, such as having multiple 7s. hell the number could even be 7777, that is one in those 960 possibilities.

[childofdarkness016]

for those that actually read and understood all that junk up there (probably none of you)

I'm so unique and edgy because I read the whole message.

[Bostik]

I read the whole message, didn't understand a word.
:)

[TristanLuigi]

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| 18 guesses remain. |
|  Enter code: 8365  |
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[Ipquarx]

6 is in the third spot?

Code 1263

[childofdarkness016]

8547 is my new guess.

[TristanLuigi]

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| 17 guesses remain. |
|  Enter code: 1263  |
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[blueblur121]

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| 17 guesses remain. |
|  Enter code: 1263  |
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What. That doesnt make any sense.

[TristanLuigi]

What. That doesnt make any sense.

Yes it does, the code has none of those numbers in it.

[childofdarkness016]

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| 17 guesses remain. |
|  Enter code: 1263  |
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Amateurs at Mastermind often forget how important it is to get the entire code wrong. Knowing you have 5 numbers to work with rather than 10 makes everything so much easier. We're allowed to use 0, correct?

[TristanLuigi]

Amateurs at Mastermind often forget how important it is to get the entire code wrong. Knowing you have 5 numbers to work with rather than 10 makes everything so much easier. We're allowed to use 0, correct?

Yes.

[Ben Watts]

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