The original Terminal Hacker?

[Todd_Vance]

From the old “Compute!” magazine, a game of logic with 32,001 possible puzzles, and 5 levels of difficulty. Written in BASIC, if you remember that.

https://ia800700.us.archive.org/6/items/1987-12-compute-magazine/Compute_Issue_091_1987_Dec.pdf#page=82