The Game of Life

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Who

Reuben Klamer, an American Jewish toy designer with more than two hundred patents

When

1960

Where

California, United States

Asked by Milton Bradley for something to mark the firm's hundredth year, Reuben Klamer took its 1860 Checkered Game of Life and rebuilt it around a spinner and a plastic landscape of hills, with cars carrying peg families through college, marriage and retirement. It has been in print since 1960.

Sources

Part of “The Gifts of the Jews” — verified Jewish contributions to the world, with sources.