Mordechai Meirovitz (born 1930 in Romania) is an Israeli telecommunications expert.
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]
See also
References
- ^ Invicta Toys and Games Archived 12 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ 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.
- ^ Orda Hebrew Edition