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Bulls and Cows

YOUR NEXT LITTLE OBSESSION

Four digits, all different. Read the bulls and cows.

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A LITTLE FRIENDLY COMPETITION

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Best fewest guesses, shared by players. Lower is better. Equal scores are ranked by fastest clear time.

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A LITTLE ABOUT THE GAME

Four digits, all different. Read the bulls and cows.

The secret is four different digits. Guess four different digits, and each guess scores a bull for every digit in the right place and a cow for every digit in the secret but somewhere else. Work out the secret from the clues, marking digits as ruled out or in with the notes, and crack it with four bulls. Every secret can be found in seven guesses or fewer. Every game has a fresh secret; the Plocky leaderboard ranks the fewest guesses, with the faster time breaking ties. Looking at the secrets still possible makes a game practice.

The classic code-breaking gameDigit notes to keep trackEvery secret crackable in sevenFewest-guesses leaderboardPlayable by keyboard

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How to play

0–9, Backspace, Enter
Type a guess and make it
Click / tap the keypad
Type a guess and make it
Tap a note
Mark a digit as out, then in, then unknown
P
Show the secrets still possible (the game becomes practice)
N
New game

Tap four digits on the keypad, then Guess. Tap the notes to mark digits.

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