It is the world-famous game on which many a player shined as a property tycoon and where luckless strugglers went to jail, but after a public vote one of Monopoly’s tokens will never again pass go. Of the handful of metal pieces whose journey around the board depended on a…
Alan Turing, it turns out, had a theory about Monopoly. Fascinated by data patterns and algorithms the father of modern computing was convinced that there was a code-based tactic to playing and winning at the board game. When he discovered that the son of brilliant mathematician Max Newman had drawn…