Mordechai Meirovitz (; born 1930 in Romania) is an Israeli telecommunications expert and games maker.
Meirovitz invented the code-breaking
board game
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''
Master Mind''. After being rejected by leading games companies, he sparked the interest of a
Leicester
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-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
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, the game is marketed as ''Bul pgi'a'' ().
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See also
* Israeli inventions and discoveries
This is a list of inventions and discoveries by Israeli scientists and researchers, working locally or overseas. Mathematics
* Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma, a mathematical result concerning low-distortion embeddings of points from high-dimensional ...
References
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Living people
1930 births
Israeli inventors
Board game designers
Israeli civil servants
Postmasters
Romanian Jews in Israel