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"I'll try it," Underneath said softly and moved forward, carefully touching her nose to the center stone before trotting over to brush against he leftmost and went back to touch the center stone again.

With a breath, she touched the center stone, trotted to the second leftmost stone and nosed it, before rushing back to the sand dog stone and touching it once more.

In this puzzle, you will be playing Mastermind as a group. Unfortunately, only one kin can play at a time - but each kin can only take one turn per game of Mastermind (other kin may post suggestions or discuss their choices as often as you'd like).

There are six color options - yellow, which is the default color, red, blue, green, orange, and purple - and five rocks in the answer code.

To begin, one kin taps or steps on the rock with the sand dog symbol in the center. This registers to the obelisk that it's that kin's turn, and will cause the rock with the sand dog symbol to start glowing. Once a kin has tapped the sand dog stone, nothing anyone else does will affect the obelisk or the stones at all. For the kin who is playing, tapping a rock on the west side with a hoof changes its color. You may take as many posts as you'd like to take your turn - beginning and ending it in the same post if you don't have time, or taking a few posts to discuss before you lock in your answer, if you want other people's input. However, we'd like to request that you not take more than an hour of time, just to move things along quickly.

Pressing the sand dog rock in the middle again using green text locks in your answer. In that post, please clearly indicate the final color of each rock on the left side (using either OOC notes or very clear in-character description), at which point a GM-posted response of some sort will display on the rocks on the east side. Each white-glowing stone indicates that your proposed answer has one correctly-colored and correctly-placed stone. Each red-glowing stone indicates that your proposed answer has one correctly-colored but wrongly-placed stone. The rest of the stones on the right side will not glow. The order of the stones on the right side does not matter.

Once your kin has completed a turn, that's it until further notice! You must wait for other people to take their turns, and for the GMs to tell you that people who have participated may participate again, before you can submit another attempt. You may continue RPing, encouraging people or giving them suggestions as to what to submit.

In general, a round will be completed once the group has figured out the exact order and color that the stones on the left should be glowing. If there are too few participants to complete a round, a GM may, at their discretion, allow people who have already participated to take another turn. Furthermore, Red-Stained Blossom, Breach, Underneath, Beauty Past Compare, and Sea of Butterflies can take another turn in this particular round because they did not know what they were doing when they submitted their first turn. The information that you have gained from their first turns still stands.