La Clave

Guess the hidden word. A two-player deduction game where each player takes turn making a limited number of guesses, using logic to deduce what word the opponent has hidden.

One player secretly puts a five-letter word in the spaces behind a screen at once end of the game board. The other player, the code breaker, makes a series of guesses. After each guess, the code maker uses pins to tell the code breaker if their guessed letters are the right letter in the right place (using a white pin), are the right letter but the wrong place (using a black pin), or are the wrong letter entirely (no pin is used). The code breaker makes another guess in the next row, building upon information from previous guesses, trying to match the letters (and word) the code maker hid at the beginning of the game.

La Clave was inspired from Mastermind.