Over at the Programming Praxis blog, the task of the day is to write a program to solve the game Mastermind. Mastermind is actually a fairly interesting game mathematically speaking, and has a fairly rich set of mathematics behind it, and yet it’s actually small enough to analyze easily using modern computing power. I might try to use this as a test program to try out the new Go programming language from Google. In the mean time, here are some links:

Investigations into the Master Mind Board Game

Here’s a link to computer science luminary Don Knuth’s paper The Computer As Master Mind