Special Monopoly edition celebrates Alan Turing's life

10 September 2012

Bletchley Park Launches Special Edition Alan Turing Monopoly Board
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- Turing's face adorns ten pound note
- Board design based on unique hand-drawn board in Park museum - a board 
  Turing himself played upon ( and lost )
- All proceeds go toward Bletchley Park and its further development into 
  world attraction.

Bletchley Park is delighted to officially launch the Alan Turing Monopoly 
board, developed from a unique original board in the Bletchley Park 
Museum, hand-drawn by William Newman, son of Turing's mentor, Max, over 
sixty years ago.
 
In this special edition of Monopoly, the squares around the board and 
revised Chance and Community Chest cards tell the story of Alan Turing's 
life along with key elements of the original hand-drawn board, which the 
great mathematician played on with a young William in the early 1950s - 
and lost. The board has been developed by the Bletchley Park Trust, 
William Newman and Winning Moves, which creates new editions of Monopoly.

In addition to the new board, the set includes :
 
- Reeplica of the original hand-drawn board, complete withWilliam's own 
  rules
- Never before seen pictures of Turing, kindly given by the Turing family
- Turing's face on all the banknotes - putting him on the £10 note as per 
  the current petition !
- Huts and Blocks ( the buildings which housed the Bletchley Park 
  codebreakers and their machines )  in place of traditional houses and 
  hotels
- The story of the board, and explanations of the squares throughout
 
"Bringing this board to life has been one of the most exciting and unique 
projects we've been involved with here, and we're thrilled to see it 
finally available for others to enjoy", said Iain Standen, CEO of the 
Bletchley Park Trust. "This edition really completes the fantastic story 
of the board, from it being played on by Turing ( and his losing on it !), 
to it going missing and then being rediscovered and donated to the museum 
here. Of course, we're also very proud that Bletchley Park adorns the 
"Mayfair" square !"..../snip/


http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/news/docview.rhtm/668532

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57509077-71/google-backs-alan-turing-monopoly-game/

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/sep/10/alan-turing-monopoly-board-google?newsfeed=true

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http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/history/the-other-turing-test-codebreakers-beloved-monopoly-pays-him-the-ultimate-compliment-8118217.html