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Invicta Plastics Ltd
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
Unknown
Materials
Plastic and cardboard
Measurements
Box - 315 mm (length); 135 mm (width); 33 mm (height), peg board - 305 mm (length); 128 mm (width), Each peg (min) - 7 mm (length), Each peg (max) – 16 mm (length), Instructions - 99 mm (width); 216 mm (height)
Place of origin
Leicester
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 670209
Summary
A Mastermind game in its original box, consisting of a peg board and many coloured pegs. The box, in two halves, is made from folded white cardboard colour-printed on the lid with the words 'Mastermind' and 'New original' on the top and all four sides, a photo of the game on the sides, and a photograph of a seated bearded man and a standing woman on the top. The peg board is made from moulded brown rigid plastic which in addition to the holes has moulded borders round each section on the board, i.e. the rows of four large holes, the groups of four smaller holes alongside, and the area used for the row to be guessed at one end. There is another piece of brown moulded plastic hinged as a cover to hide this area. At each end is a rectangular basket, probably to hold the pegs. There are ninety nine large, coloured, mushroom-shaped pegs: fourteen red, ten green, thirteen blue, twelve white, thirteen yellow, thirteen brown, fourteen orange and ten black; and fifty smaller, flat-topped pegs: twenty seven black and twenty three white. Also in the box is a folded paper sheet detailing instructions and rules for playing the game, printed in English and eight other European languages. Total number of items is 153.
Makers and roles
Invicta Plastics Ltd, maker