Origins Quiz — Sunday, September 13, 2026

What board game was invented in 1970 by an Israeli postmaster and telecommunications expert as a modern twist on a much older pencil-and-paper guessing game called Bulls and Cows, before a British plastics company bought the rights and mass-produced it as a code-breaking classic?

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