Maureen Hiron

Maureen Hiron (1942 – June 2022) was a British games designer and international bridge player. She is best known as a developer of over 60 board, card, dice, word and question and answer games, including the abstract strategy game Continuo. Her games were published through Hiron Games Ltd., which she founded with her husband in 1982 after retiring from teaching. Quotes I invented the thing in about two seconds. It just came to me. I spent the next two hours cutting up cornflake packets and making the squares, filling them in with colours. My husband and I formed a company the next day. Continuo went into shops on September 1st; six weeks later it was the UK's bestselling game. By Christmas, we'd sold 205,000 sets in the UK — today, it's in over fifty countries; it's now sold six million sets, which ain't bad. That includes its offspring. It's not quite so popular at the moment; it just seems to have slid downstairs at the moment. Don't worry, it'll come back; in fact so much so that I've just licensed two games to South Korea — and those two are Continuo and Duo Designer Maureen Hiron Has Passed Away,15 June 2022 Go away and find yourself a games agent; they know which companies want what, and they’ll present them for you If you can’t put an idea over in twenty seconds, then you’re dead you’re “…able to reason with the intuitive mind of a child, yet retain acquired knowledge and high I.Q Prolific inventor Maureen Hiron on having ideas – and the daftest thing a game designer can do,8th November 2019 Back in 1973, a large lump of the school in which I taught detached itself and landed on my head. This put me into early retirement - and nearly killed me. Then, suddenly, on April I , 1982, apropos of nothing in particular, Continuo flashed into my mind. Such a simple concept. All players, regardless of age, could play together - or even play solo. My husband Alan and I formed a company, and five months later Continuo went on sale in the U.K., soon becoming Britain's top-selling game. Now, Continuo and its siblings have sold over six million sets around the world. A string of other successful games followed. Whilst I invented the games, Alan playtested them. The partnership worked very well as I proofread his bridge writing MAUREEN HIRON - from games mistress to Games Mistress – and now to songwriter for founder Boney M member Sheyla Bonnick,10 December 2019 External Links Category:1942 births Category:2022 deaths Category:Game designers Category:Inventors Category:Company founders Category:Songwriters