Deduce a hidden colour code, but submitting a guess costs coins, and even the feedback pegs must be bought, so you must crack it before your budget runs dry.
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How to play
Codebreaker Market is a colour-code deduction puzzle wrapped in a tight coin economy. The market hides a secret code of coloured pegs. You build a guess and submit it for coins, but the clue pegs are not given freely, after a guess you choose which information to buy: the count of right-colour-right-spot pegs, the count of right-colour-wrong-spot pegs, or a reveal of one secret position. Crack the code before your coins run out.
Pick colours to fill the current row, then submit your guess (each guess costs coins).
Open the market to buy black-peg counts, white-peg counts, or a position reveal about your latest guess.
Stall too many turns with no progress and the market re-shuffles one secret peg, telegraphed by a warning.
Win by guessing the exact code; lose if you can no longer afford any action.
Controls
Desktop: click palette swatches to place pegs (or press number keys 1-9), click a placed peg to remove it, Backspace to undo, Enter or the Submit button to guess; click market buttons to buy clues.
Phone & tablet: tap swatches, board pegs and market buttons, full touch support.
Game modes
Difficulty: Easy, Medium and Hard adjust code length, colour count, budget and clue prices.
Daily and Practice seeds, plus a toggle for whether the code may repeat colours.
Tips & strategy
Buy clues sparingly, leftover coins drive your score, so squeeze the most deduction out of each purchase.
Keep making real progress every turn; a wasted turn risks a peg re-shuffle that can invalidate clues you already paid for.
About Codebreaker Market
Codebreaker Market reinvents the hidden-code deduction genre by charging for information, turning pure logic into a budgeting puzzle. It is an original free browser game built for PlayPendium.
A free, original browser game on PlayPendium. No download, no install.
