About Code Breaker
Code Breaker is based on an old guessing and logic game that people have played with pencil and paper for over a hundred years. One player makes a secret code of four colours out of six possible. The others guess, and after each guess the game tells you how many colours are in the right place, and how many are right but in the wrong place.
With two players, it’s a duel: you take turns making the code, and the codemaker gets a point for every guess the other player uses. If the code isn’t cracked at all in ten guesses, that’s eleven points. With three or four players, it becomes a race where everyone guesses the same code, and the fewer guesses you use, the more points you get.
On one iPad, you pass it around when the code is being made, and in the race every board is secret. With TV + phones, the codemaker makes the code on their phone, the guessers enter their guesses on their own phones, and the TV shows the boards to the whole room.
How to play
- Choose One screen or TV + phones, the number of players and whether colours can repeat.
- The codemaker picks four colours and locks the code while the others look away.
- Guess four colours. A green tick means the right colour in the right place. A yellow arrow means the right colour in the wrong place.
- Use the feedback to work out the code in ten guesses or fewer. After all the rounds, the player with the most points wins.