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What is the name of this game?

This is not a programming issue per se, although the ultimate goal is to develop an algorithm. I am looking for links, or at least the name of the type of game. This is quite common on television games. The game is as follows:

You have several slots, each slot contains an element (from some finite set) that you do not know. You must guess what each slot contains. You tell your guess to the judge (who knows what each slot contains), and he tells you how many guesses are true, without telling you which one. The game ends when you successfully guess all the objects.

I would be interested in any information about this type of game, including links to algorithms for solving in the least possible guesses, etc. Just a name so that I can google would also be nice.

Thanks!

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Sounds like Mastermind to me.

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do you mean mastermind ?

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The game lasted a long time, like the Bulls and Cows with a computer version - moo - written in the 1960s. Mastermind was a commercial version of the game "invented" in the 1970s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulls_and_cows

I know that the game was built into several embedded systems in the 70s and early 80s, including the pipeline management system and the first commercial digital recording table; -)

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