Travel MASTERMIND

by Pressman Toy

Product Features

• Game includes:
• game console with hinged cover
• 60 Code pegs in 6 colors
• 15 red scoring pegs
• 15 white scoring pegs, and instructions.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 9.8 x 1.2 inches ; 4.8 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B00004TFZQ
• Manufacturer recommended age: 8 years and up
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,236 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
  • #14 in Toys & Games > Games > Travel Games
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

Product Description

Editorial Review

In-flight turbulence, choppy seas, feeling a pothole in the backseat of the SUV--nothing can interrupt your next game of Mastermind, the classic two-player challenge of logic and deductive code breaking that Games magazine saw fit to retire years ago as one of the all-time greats. With this deluxe travel edition, the codebreaker still tries to guess the codemaster's hidden sequence of colored pegs through trial and error. But now it all fits into a plastic game board/storage unit with a hinged snap lid--the whole thing is only slightly bigger than your sunglasses case. With the Deluxe Travel Mastermind, deduction and reduction have rarely merged so well. --Tony Mason

Product Description

Now you can take this challenging game of logic and deduction with you just about anywhere! For years, Mastermind has entertained people of all ages with its seemingly simple challenge: break a secret code in 8 turns or less. The Codebreaker uses educated guesses and clues from the Codemaker in hopes of solving the correct color and order of the coded pegs! With thousands of combinations, Mastermind is a challenge every time you play! Game includes game console with hinged cover, 60 Code pegs in 6 colors, 15 red scoring pegs, 15 white scoring pegs, and instructions.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Fun and Excellent Educational Value, July 19, 2000

By A Customer

= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Travel MASTERMIND (Board Game)

Travel Mastermind is like original Mastermind, but it is smaller and has a better format for storage because it has a lid which snaps shut to keep the pegs from getting lost. It still only rates a 4 for durability because of all the small pegs--keep them away from the wee ones because the pegs are definitely a choking hazard. I prefer this to the original Mastermind because it is smaller and has the snapping lid. Beware if you take it on vacation--look under the beds and couch before you depart to catch all the stray pieces.

This travel format is a great investment for an elementary school classroom to be played during "free" time or on rainy days.

If you like Mastermind, try Advanced Mastermind which has more colors of pegs to be more challenging.

My daughter, age 7, learned Mastermind on vacation last summer and mastered the game. For Christmas she received Advanced Mastermind and has been playing steadily with her father. I have seen great improvements in her logical thinking skills both as she plays the game and in real life situations. We often have games that start on one day and continue the next.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars big fingers + tiny pins = problem, October 18, 2007

By 

David Sprunt (Littleton, Colorado) - See all my reviews

= Durability:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Travel MASTERMIND (Board Game)

The game itself is quite fun and entertaining, but the form factor of the design needs improvement. I got the game to entertain my 8-yr old during a cross-country road trip. She learned the game quickly and enjoyed figuring out the strategy.

But this travel version has a few problems. The biggest problem is the <<tiny>> round-headed colored pins that tend to easily scatter around the car and are very difficult to grasp. I've got fairly large hands and fingers, so I wasn't surprised that I had problems, but my 3rd grader also had problems picking up the pins. The most difficult part is placing and extracting the 4 code pins from the end of the board - the clearances are very tight. The codebreaker pins are also difficult to place into the holes.

Generally this is a very fun game, but you may want to take look at the larger version for car trips.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Just get the original. The travel version is lame!, July 14, 2010

By 

K. Thygerson - See all my reviews
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= Durability:1.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Travel MASTERMIND (Board Game)

We have the old-school original version of this game and the whole family loves it. We got this travel version to take on a road trip, played it one time, and now plan to return it. The "easy grip" pegs are almost impossible to handle--they slip out of large (grown up) and small (kid) fingers, and fall out of the holes. As you're putting one peg in, it's all-too easy to bump the other pegs and knock them out. The colors are different than the original, which might be fine, except the "key pegs" are red & white (not black & white as in the original), and the blue and green code-making pegs are almost the exact same color. Besides all this, the travel version is not that much smaller than the original, so just get that one instead.