Maybe if Mastermind had made the pegs green and yellow like Wordle squares I’d still have my old set. It was always the black ones that got lost first. Once you dropped below some critical number of surviving pieces the whole thing became impossible to use properly and eventually got thrown out.

Bit gutted about that now because I’d love to still have the original board game.

I do still like that style of deduction puzzle though. A lot of the daily puzzle games feel closer to trivia or vocabulary tests, whereas games the newer browser puzzles like Alphalock and Padlock help me get that “logical elimination” satisfaction I miss from the board game without the problem of the fiddly pegs!