Enigma
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Enigma is a 1996 Mastermind variant from Freeverse Software, the New York indie outfit later known for Burning Monkey Solitaire and 3D Bridge Construction Set. It pitches itself as "a professional code breaking game" wrapped in a quasi-MYST aesthetic, with talking adversaries who heckle the player between guesses.
Mastermind, with attitude
The Info-Mac BinHex header for v1.3 frames the design directly: "Remember the classic game 'mastermind' you played as a kid? Imagine it MYST-ified and with an attitude problem!" Players solve a series of color/symbol codes to unlock the on-screen Enigma Briefcase and reveal what is inside.
The talking adversaries
A core Freeverse touch is the cast of "strange little people" who taunt the player throughout. The header even warns: "Don't be offended if they call you a 'monkey,' they do it to everyone." Macintosh Garden notes the version 2.x line added Carbonized builds with new monkey personalities.
Versions and compatibility
Per Macintosh Garden, Enigma 1.3 and 1.5 target System 7.0-7.6 on 68k and PPC; 2.1 is a Carbonized build for Mac OS 8.6 with CarbonLib 1.3.1; and 2.2 runs natively on Mac OS X. An Italian localization ("Italia Enigma v1.2") also reached Info-Mac.
Why this is the Freeverse Enigma
An older, unrelated 1985 "Enigma" by Joseph Sensendorf - a Rubik-style two-circle rotation puzzle - is also indexed on Macintosh Garden. The Drupal sibling enigma-1 plus the 1996 Freeverse signature in this archive's BinHex headers make this entry the Freeverse Mastermind variant rather than the Sensendorf puzzle.
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