Bletchley Park Launches Special Edition Alan Turing Monopoly Board
Released : Sep 8, 2012
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:
· Replica of the original hand-drawn board, complete with William’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!”
The original board was drawn around 1950 and was played upon by William and his brother Edward, but went missing around 1986 when William moved from the family house in Cambridge. It resurfaced in 2011 when the owners of the property discovered a box of William’s belongings, and he brought the board to Bletchley Park and donated it to the Museum. Since then, the Park and Winning Moves have been designing and developing the edition based on this original.
Peter Griffin, Development Director EMEA, Winning Moves, added, “We hope fans of Turing across the globe will enjoy playing on this very special edition of Monopoly. Through play, they will find out more about Turing’s remarkable life and his crucial role shaping the society we enjoy today. As an ex-student of Kings College, where Turing himself studied, this was an honour to help develop.”
The commercial board has been kindly supported by Google, which has bought the first 1,000 units as a donation to the Bletchley Park Trust. The board is initially exclusively available from the Bletchley Park website, and from the Museum Shop.
Additional elements of the board include:
· Bletchley Park and Kings College, Cambridge in place of Mayfair and Park Lane respectively
· The ‘Utilities’ squares replaced by the Enigma Machine and Bombe
· Tax square replaced by cost of Turing’s hidden bullion
· Sets commemorating Turing’s University studies, key computing theories and early life
Community Chest and Chance cards
· ‘Auntie Flo is not so well’ – coded call-up to Bletchley Park from 1939 replaces ‘Go To Mayfair’
· Published papers, crossword and Christopher Morcom prize money
· Cross country running rewards
· Cost of hiring private eye to find Turing’s lost teddy bear, Porgy
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