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sition. Notice also that the number to the left of "road" is a two, indicating that "road"
is our second attempt.
Let's make our third attempt. We know that the "e" from the first attempt was in per-
fect position. We also know that two letters exist in the word out of the letters "r",
"a", "d". Type in the word
like the one below:
Hmm. All of the letters of the mystery word are included in the word "reed". Perfect
2 Misplaced 2 indicates that two of the letters are in perfect position, while the other
two letters indicated by the Misplaced 2 message are, indeed, in the word, yet in
the wrong position. It is simply a matter of finding which two letters are perfectly
placed and switching around the other two misplaced letters.
We know that the first "e" is in the Perfect position. Since, at our second turn, the
"r" and the "d" were present in the word, yet Misplaced equalled 2, we can safely
deduce that the two letters need to be switched.
Type in the word
deer
poses over the screen for a short period of time; a scoreboard then flashes over
the screen and the next screen appears:
You have now won your first game of Word Deduction. This game was just meant
, then press the ENTER key. Your screen now looks
reed
, then press
ENTER
. The message "You win!!" superim-
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