Comments on: Mastermind

By: simon

simon — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 19:50:43 +0000

i was just thinking about this the other day. my daughter picked up the game at my mother in laws house and i remembered a story that my dad told me: that this was the guy who cut (what was left) of his hair in Oadby Leicester – i think invicta plastics was based there. i suddenly wondered if it was true or an embellishment – but it clearly was true. fancy that! simon

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By: Mastermind – minns ni? « David Bicho

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By: David Bicho

David Bicho — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 07:00:27 +0000

Cool! But who was he photographer!?

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:40:23 +0000

He has clearly made an effort to reproduce the look of the original photo in impressive detail, but I don’t feel she has entered into the spirit of things in quite the same way. Couldn’t she (or Invicta) have made a similar dress, straightened her hair, removed her make up and shown us a little more hip movement? And where is the red chair? I feel cheated!

By: Fredrik Farhadian

Fredrik Farhadian — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:00:37 +0000

Now that´s a lovely picture. One of the most enduring images of my childhood.
The wealthy business man who oozes self-confidence sitting down, and behind him,
a pretty Asian girl who gives the picture an appealing international flair.

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Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:07:04 +0000

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By: tinylondon

tinylondon — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:45:30 +0000

How cool is that. The fella really hasn’t changed much at all.

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By: Emma

Emma — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:54:11 +0000

I love this game. I have an original version and I am yet to meet someone who can beat my scores of getting it in four tries nearly every time. Shame it never really caught on… The sinister sophistication of the cover definitely added to its appeal – if I’d known he was covered in cat pee I would have been even more impressed.

By: Kate

Kate — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:17:27 +0000

I’ve never heard of this game, should I check it out?

By: s.davis

s.davis — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:16:28 +0000

I love this box. I don’t own the game anymore, but i have the box propped up against the wall in my room.

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By: selector lopaka

selector lopaka — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 07:35:13 +0000

P.S. The actual game we played with was an original version that came from the game stash of my partner’s family from when she was a kid in Wisconsin.

By: selector lopaka

selector lopaka — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 07:28:46 +0000

No lie, April 8 eve, I was in Georgetown (a Seattle neighborhood) on my way to a bar, and saw a faded Mastermind Deluxe edition (which I had never seen before) in the window of a record store. I looked at for a minute or two, and was reminded of when I used to play Mastermind a bunch with a boyhood friend back in the late 1970s, and remember feeling the James Bond/spy vibe from it. Then I saw this post which was a bit bizarre, and tonight after dinner with a couple of friends the talk of playing a game popped up, and what should appear on the table, Mastermind. I proceeded to play for the first time in more than a couple of decades, and actually figured out the first one in six tries, failed completely on the second round, while my partner blew my mind with five tries the first round, and frickin’ four tries the second time. Beautiful randomness.

By: Humuhumu

Humuhumu — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:29:43 +0000

Nice! Yes, we’ve been daydreaming & plotting of a photoshoot of our own…

By: Steve Hobley

Steve Hobley — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:40:04 +0000

That’s awesome (as they say over here).

I’m just about to undertake a photoshoot based on this very box cover.
I live in the USA now, but I was born and raised in Leicester…

Must be a good omen.

Steve

By: alohatiki

alohatiki — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:42:12 +0000

I always loved the cover (and the game) but always wondered why she was wearing an ill fitting pillowcase. We have the travel version (picked up at Goodwill) which we keep meaning to bring on plane trips then always forget.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:21:36 +0000

I stand corrected. Maybe dead people in the top soil above his subterranean lair?

I’ll keep an eye out for you. They turn up at the Community Thrift store over on Valencia Street (in San Francisco) every so often.

By: Humuhumu

Humuhumu — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 02:17:13 +0000

Good point. But, dead people in the crawlspace under his house? I believe you mean dead people in the crawlspace under his evil lair.

Thanks for the inspiration! I’m seriously going to try to track down a copy — I don’t know how easy it will be to find one that still has all the pegs.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 02:12:28 +0000

Glad you liked my Mastermind post. The added history didn’t
alter the mystique at all. I still find them both chilling.

Anyone who can muster such an obvious look of disdain while
possessing a lap full of cat urine obviously has ice water running
through his veins and dead people in the crawlspace under his house.