Israeli telecommunications expert (born 1930)
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." Released in 1971, "the game sold over 50 million sets in 80 countries," making it the most successful new game of the 1970s.
In Israel, the game is marketed as Bul pgi'a (Hebrew: בול פגיעה).
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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