Purble Place - Purble Shop

Purble Shop is a code-breaker game. The computer decides the color of up to five features (hat, eyes, nose, mouth and clothes) that are concealed from the player. Any color may be used for any feature, and a color can be used once, several times or not used at all. The player then attempts to deduce or guess the correct feature colors in a limited number of moves. There are three difficulty levels: Beginner with three features in three possible colors for 33 = 27 different possible solutions, Intermediate with 44 = 256 solutions, and Advanced with 55 = 3125 solutions.

Beginner and intermediate levels are guessing games where after each move the computer tells the player which items were correct, so there is little scope for deduction.

At the advanced level the computer doesn't tell the player which specific items were correct, reporting only the count of picks in the correct color and position, and the count of picks in the correct color but the wrong position. This level is similar to the colored peg game Master Mind where success requires logical reasoning as well as lucky guesses.

Finding the correct solution is rewarded by an honorary rank (Junior Detective, Detective, Senior Detective, Champion of Logic or Purble Master) depending on the difficulty level and the number of guesses made. The quality of the player's reasoning is not considered in the ranking, so an early lucky guess can outscore even the most efficient logical sequence.