Mordecai Meirowitz
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Mordechai Meirovitz (Template:Langx; 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.<ref>Invicta Toys and Games Template:Webarchive</ref> Released in 1971, the game sold over 50 million sets in 80 countries, making it the most successful new game of the 1970s.<ref>Template:Cite book, p.442.</ref>
In Israel, the game is marketed as Bul pgi'a (Template:Langx).<ref>Orda Hebrew Edition</ref>