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Bletchley Park Launches Special Edition Alan Turing
Monopoly Board
Bletchley Park has launched the Alan Turing Monopoly board, developed from a unique original board in the Bletchley Park Museum, hand-drawn by William Newman, son of Turingʼs mentor, Max, over sixty years ago.
which housed the Bletchley Park codebreakers and their machines) in place of traditional houses and hotels and the story of the board, and explanations of the squares throughout.
In this special edition of Monopoly, the squares around the board and
“Bringing this board to life has been one of the most exciting and unique projects weʼve been involved with here, and weʼre 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, weʼre also very proud that Bletchley Park adorns the ʻMayfairʼ square!”
revised Chance and Community Chest cards tell the story of Alan
Turingʼs life. The board is based on 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.
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.
This special edition also includes never before seen pictures of Turing, kindly given by the Turing family, Turingʼs face on all the banknotes, huts and blocks (the buildings
Celebrity Masterchef finalists cook for Bletchley Park Veteran Codebreakers
Veteran codebreakers enjoyed the culinary delights of a meal cooked by the three Celebrity
MasterChef finalists, footballer Danny Mills, actress and author, Emma Kennedy and TV presenter Michael Underwood. The episode, filmed at Bletchley Park earlier this year, aired during Final Week on BBC Two on Wednesday 19th September. At the time of going to print, we still donʼt know who the final winner is.
The codebreakers enjoyed a gourmet three- course meal in the Mansion, with one course cooked by each of the finalists. The finalists all devised their own dishes and had 2 and half hours in which to prepare and cook the course.
They ate in The Library, where Italian ciphers were broken during World War Two. Codebreakers working in that section included Joan Wingfield, the mother and wife of two of the guests, veteran codebreaker Sir Arthur Bonsall, who went on to become the Director of GCHQ after World War Two, and his daughter Judie Hodsdon, a Bletchley Park Trustee.
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