[Hint] Mastermind – 2 September 2024

The July-August metapuzzle, Mastermind, has been out for a week now. Congratulations to the twelve of you who have already solved it. Anybody who’s still stuck, check out the hint below.

When you’ve finished, check out the first puzzle of September, All That Jazz, Unlike the previous music puzzle, this one can be solved without listening to the tune.

In the game of Mastermind, you are given a black peg for every letter that is in the correct location in the word, and a white peg for every letter that is correct, but in the wrong spot. To solve this metapuzzle, you will need to solve two games of Mastermind, using your answers to the feeder puzzles as the guesses.