Mastermind Words - Jotto

In 1970, I had just arrived in the US and I knew a woman grad student, whom I’ll call J. She was a word wizard ( (Example: she rearranged the fundamental one line ethos of The New York Times, which was ‘All the News That is Fit to Print’ and created a mock and a sarcastic criticism of their woke credo: “All the News that Print to Fit!”). She taught me Jotto! And, I have played it forever since 1971!

Would love to be able to easily slide letters around when trying to unscramble the word. If guessed words showed red and green for letters known, that would be helpful. Then I will pay🙂

I really, really like this app. The only thing keeping me from giving it 5 stars is the way it tells me “not a real word” when I know it IS a real word. Makes me gnash my teeth every time. Why can’t it just say “Sorry, not on my list”? This happens multiple times during a session. GRRR! I still like the app a lot and continue to play it often.

“Gloze”? What kind of word is that?? It took me 24 tries to figure out this word I’ve never heard in use? I like this game for the most part but not when I have to guess a word I’ve never heard before…

I remember this games from childhood. Love it !! Very fun.

Love the game. Keeps me sharp.

i have been looking for a 5-letter word mastermind game for a long time now. Thank you for writing it. It seems the settings have improved since I last reviewed it. Now you can pick your difficulty level. The starting difficulty is easy, which is just normal 5 letter words. Today, i got “camel”.

Even back in the pre-Internet days when jotto was simply a game you played with pencil and paper it was always the best game for highly intelligent people. The only thing I would add for this version is the ability to save a game that is not complete for a later play. Otherwise it's terrific!

The one improvement I would recommend is the ability to guess words that have repeat letters. Example “sassy”. If the letter’s’ is correct, that would account for 3 by itself. Even if the final word is restricted to words without duplicate letters, clue words should not have that restriction. Perhaps the coder could include this as an option.

This is like a better form of Wordle for me (it’s like Worlde but if you only got yellow blocks). It’s a game I can spend hours playing, it is simple and perfect, and it’s a clever concept so you can refine your strategies. It’s a good skill but not impossible - like a perfect balance. Highly recommend.