Controls

You play by building and submitting guesses. Tap a color, or click it with a mouse on a laptop, to fill the next slot of your guess, then tap or click Submit once all four are filled. The game responds with feedback pins that you read to plan your next attempt.

A couple of controls help you fix mistakes before you submit:

• Removing a peg is as simple as tapping or clicking one you've already placed in your guess row, which takes it back out so you can pick a different color.
• The Clear button wipes your whole current guess at once, which is faster than removing pegs one at a time if you want to start the row over.

Submit stays disabled until all four slots are filled, and the pins do not tell you which specific pegs they refer to, so matching clues to positions is the deductive challenge.

You must crack the code within a limited number of guesses. The code always holds four pegs; only the number of available colors grows across eight levels.

Tips

• Start with a varied first guess. Opening with several different colors quickly reveals which ones are in the code at all, giving you more information than repeating one color across every slot.
• Change one thing at a time when testing. Once you have a promising guess, adjusting a single peg between attempts makes it clear exactly what that change did to the feedback.
• Track colors you have ruled out. A guess that returns no pins tells you those colors are absent entirely, so noting them keeps you from wasting future guesses on dead ends.
• Use wrong-place clues to relocate colors. A wrong-place pin confirms a color belongs in the code, so your next job is to try it in a different slot until it turns into a right-place pin.
• Deduce, don't gamble. Each piece of feedback narrows the possibilities, so with careful reasoning you can usually corner the code well within your guesses instead of taking wild shots.
• Reread all previous feedback before guessing. The answer is hidden in the combination of every clue so far, not just the last one, so a quick review often reveals a deduction you missed.

Frequently asked questions