Mordecai Meirowitz

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Mordechai Meirovitz
Born1930
Known forMastermind


Mordechai Meirovitz (born 1930 in Romania) is an Israeli telecommunications expert and games maker.

Meirovitz invented the code-breaking board game Master Mind . After being rejected by leading games companies, he sparked the interest of a Leicester-based company, Invicta Plastics, which restyled and renamed the game. [1] Released in 1971, the game sold over 50 million sets in 80 countries, making it the most successful new game of the 1970s. [2]

In Israel, the game is marketed as Bul pgi'a (Hebrew : בול פגיעה). [3]

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References

  1. Invicta Toys and Games Archived 12 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Pickover, Clifford A. (2009). The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics. New York: Sterling. ISBN   978-1-4027-5796-9. OCLC   262694306., p.442.
  3. Orda Hebrew Edition