Mastermind
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07/06/25 07:24 PM
07/06/25 07:24 PM
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Posts: 53,645
Upstate NY
Pandora
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Sonic Boomer
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Sonic Boomer
Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 53,645
Upstate NY
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Below are a series of Mastermind-like puzzles using letters instead of colors. Correct answers are words made up of some of the letters provided. The guesses are shown below followed by “X” for a correct letter in the correct position and “O” for a correct letter out of place. All letters in the answer word will be different. Note: don't bring in any extra letters. All are accounted for.
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LID – XX
ANT – O
TIN –
-2.
RAM – XO
SIT – X
SIR –
-3.
BLUE – X
MOSS – X
SLUM –
MEAT – XX
-4.
TEAM – OO
MODE –
PEAR – XOO
-5.
RANT – XX
CURL – O
CURT –
CARD – XX
-6.
TRAP – XOO
BEAR – XX
ARTS – OOOO
-7.
PASTE – OOO
MEANT – XO
THINE –
SWEEP – XXX
-8.
BLUFF – XX
STARK – XOO
KNIFE –
LIFTS – OOO
PRUNE –
-9.
COURT – OOO
DROPS – XXOO
STACK –
SCOUT – XX
TRACK – X
-10.
STRIPE – XXXOO
PRUNED – OOO
BUDGED –
BEHIND – XX
CHOKED –
SPONGE – XXO
CHRIST – XXXO
The man who invented the Ferris wheel never met the man who invented the merry-go-round. They traveled in different circles.
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Re: Mastermind
[Re: Pandora]
#1348804
07/08/25 09:02 AM
07/08/25 09:02 AM
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Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 31,059
Unionville
manxman
Sonic Boomer
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Sonic Boomer
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Posts: 31,059
Unionville
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6. TSAR  good morning Pandie
Sometimes lost is where you need to be. Just because you don't know your direction doesn't mean you don't have one.
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Re: Mastermind
[Re: Pandora]
#1348849
07/09/25 03:44 AM
07/09/25 03:44 AM
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Joined: Mar 2004
Posts: 12,533
Isle of Man
Lex
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Adept Boomer
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Isle of Man
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4. Part (not a puzzle with which I am familiar, but I think this must be the answer...) 
Last edited by Lex; 07/09/25 03:45 AM.
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been a long time since doing one of these 
