How to Play

• When this page loads the CodeMaker (the Java Applet) chooses four colours at random from a possible six (the code).

• The CodeBreaker's (your) task is to cunningly deduce (guess) the code.

• You construct a row of your four guesses by clicking on the available colours in the bottom of the game board. Each time you click on a colour, a peg of that colour is placed in the next available hole in the game row.

• When you complete a row the CodeMaker will mark your attempt.

  You will recieve a black mark for every one of your guess pegs that matches a colour in the code and that is in the same place in your guess row as it appears in the code row.

  You will recieve a white mark for any other pegs in your guess row that match colours in the code row but that are not in their correct position.

• Once a row has been marked you start a new row armed with the information furnished to you by the marking of the previous row(s).

• You get only six chances. Once the game is over you have to reload the page to start again. You can do this with the button Click to play again supplied.

Tips

• The code row will not contain blank spaces (which is handy seeing as how you have no way of leaving a blank space in your guess row.

• The code row can contain doubles of colours.