I used to play this all the time. So did my parents. And grandparents. It’s been a favourite of our family’s among the generations probably since the 80s. I’m pretty sure someone in my family has that exact box, I’m not sure who though. But I’ve definitely seen it before.
My dad has this box. I remember playing it with him constantly.
Ive got it but a lot of the pieces are now missing unfortunately
Seeing this immediately makes me smell cigarette smoke.
Not just cigarette smoke, the smell of cigarette smoke permeating everything in the room for years.
This, but the box held together with tan packing tape applied in the 90s.
Reminds me of this:
I had this exotic gem. Sophisticated players only.
This must be making the rounds since the McSweeney’s bit came out earlier this month.
Finest piece of satire I’ve seen in awhile!
I had that one (french version): https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jB_0gDq-z5U/S_wcG9n9LkI/AAAAAAAAEp8/VYszHxROVVM/s1600/Mastermind.jpg
And also this weird version with plastic squares containing letters and numbers instead of the colors, but I was too young to understand the rules: https://ludessimo.fr/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/a_07_3194-mastermind-duo2.jpg
I inherited this same edition with that box art from my parents who lived in the UK in the 80s. What’s the deal with the Asian gal and the most uninteresting man in the world?
Was this an old TV show or something, does anyone know?
There was a UK quiz show called Mastermind (it may even still be going, I’m not sure), so it may have been trying to ape the aesthetic of that.
Unlike more quiz shows, Mastermind was presented in a fairly serious tone, contestants sat alone on a black leather chair answering 2 minutes of quick fire questions on their chosen specialist subject, under intense spotlights, somewhat similar to the trope of interrogation techniques with the light being shone directly in the face.
Although this board game really had no similarities in content to the show, they could well have been trying to gain some of the show’s mystique (for want of a better term) by making it look quite serious.
I thought he was just going for the bond villain aethetic. You know a
criminalmastermindOh, definitely a bit of that too.
There may be no relation to the BBC show at all, of course - but it’s been my head canon since I saw one of these games a long time ago! 😁
Yep. I remember Mastermind, and it’s still going. But I thought that there was some other show around that time I just missed as a kid.
Yeah, quite possibly, I’m not sure tbh 🙂
it may even still be going, I’m not sure
It is!
It’s started, so it won’t finish!
I have this on my bookshelf. It’s the one I played with my Grandparents as a kid in the 80s 💜
4 out of 6 colors & 10 guesses = guesser can guarantee 100% wins :)
