Hi Thomas, On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 1:06 AM, Thomas Thurman <tho...@thurman.org.uk> wrote: > On 22 July 2012 18:54, Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> wrote: >> Interesting! Not a game I've ever heard of before, but the package >> description covers it thoroughly. >> > Perhaps not under that name, but this is more widely known these days by the > name of its 1970 commercial version, "Mastermind".
>From what I could find on the internet, games that are "Mastermind" clones seem to be based on colors or numbers. > Various forms of the game, not all word-based, are already in the archive: > > $ apt-cache search mastermind > 4digits - guess-the-number game, aka Bulls and Cows > ace-of-penguins - penguin-themed solitaire games > colorcode - advanced clone of the MasterMind code-breaking game > gnome-mastermind - Mastermind (TM) clone for GNOME Desktop > gtkboard - many board games in one program > sgt-puzzles - Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection - 1-player puzzle > games I checked all these packages and none of them has a word-based version of "Mastermind"/"Cows and bulls". > Of course that doesn't preclude the addition of another. The game is implemented in a single .cpp file and I was already told that this could be a vanity package, not sure if it really is. Either way, let me package it and upload it to the mentors site. Thanks & Regards, Guruprasad. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAFZPT6auJ8qHz-NiBSyTjwq+58fhgUkbSsMoDx=_y-j7-sp...@mail.gmail.com
