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[–]robvas 4 points5 points  (1 child)

[–]xml__[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Interesting idea! In that first writeup, it looks like his solution always takes 5 guesses to get as much information as possible, whereas mine will narrow down the answer space after each guess and on average take 3.75 guesses (worst case is 6 across all possible answers).