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Puzzle · 1977

Colour Code

Crack the peg sequence

Crack a hidden four-peg code by deduction alone.

Deduction against a hidden four-peg code, with a pegboard you can actually read.

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About Colour Code

Every guess buys information, so the wasteful opening is the real mistake. The pegboard is readable at a glance, which keeps the game about logic rather than squinting.

How to play Colour Code

Deduce the hidden four-peg colour code.

Controls

Rules & scoring

Tips

Retro inspiration

Code-breaking peg games were a seventies living-room fixture and shrank neatly into a pocket.

An original game made by The Pocket Arcade Club. Not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to any historic toy manufacturer.

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Colour Code high scores

Reading the scoreboard…

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