mastermind

[I. R. Fincham]

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It had no connection at all with the TV quiz.

The picture is supposed to represent a James Bond type villain with his girl assistant/ bodyguard. A criminal mastermind, get it?

[darren]

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i liked the tv show ok.
Maybe for some reason they where not allowed to do a mastermind game based on the tv show so thats why they made the one pictured in previous posts.

never could understand why it was called mastermind ; it didn't seem to have any relevance to the show.

Both were boring.

[Pussywillow]

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Never could understand why it was called Mastermind ; it didn't seem to have any relevance to the show.

Both were boring.

[Nik_Barbour]

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I have one of these too. It only recently came back out of storage (mum's attic).
Here's a few pics...

[I. R. Fincham]

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Hated it. It had absolutely nothing to do with the BBC TV Quiz show Mastermind as many mistakenly think....it did cash in on the shows popularity via the same name being used ...

Not deliberately so. The board game came out in 1970, and the TV show started in 1972. Maybe some people bought the game thinking there was a connection, but it wasn't planned that way.

[xmark1234]

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up words is also good scrable with a difference

[xmark1234]

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Lol we have a few games of mastermind recently I think its great lol

yea great game we have to have a game one day

[Richard1978]

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According to the TV Cream Book Of Toys he was a hairdresser called Bill Woodward who did some modelling on the side.

As far as I know he's still around & was interviewed for a programme on toys a few years ago.

[cmac]

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I had it, may still do, who on earth was the suave man on the front of the box ?

[darren]

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Is this the same game as the tv show with magnus magnusson it sounds nothing like it.

i always found the word version harder, because it had to make sense! It was like soduko in a sense: Once you could master it, it could become rather tedious.
I suppose the only way i can think of making it slightly interesting would be to play say 10 games (alternating between code-maker and breaker), and play for a quid an attempt, and at the end win or lose a few quid.

[havasack]

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It always created arguments when someone brought it in for toy day at school (last day at school before christmas) as some played that reply pegs had to be in order and some didn't, it was carnage...CARNAGE I tell you.

[jules1971]

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Lol we have a few games of mastermind recently I think its great lol

[wickerman]

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There was a word version with letters on pegs to spell out a word, my old school had a set like this.

I always found the word version harder, because it had to make sense! It was like Soduko in a sense: once you could master it, it could become rather tedious.
I suppose the only way I can think of making it slightly interesting would be to play say 10 games (alternating between code-maker and breaker), and play for a quid an attempt, and at the end win or lose a few quid.

[HG]

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merged with existing thread.

[shilton dipper]

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i had it not sure which version i had though.
how many versions of the game where there.

I had the large board and a pocket sized version just incase you fancied a game while hyou were out........."excuse me........fancy a quick game while we're waiting for the bus?"