Eric Solomon obituary

My friend Eric Solomon, who has died aged 85, was a renowned inventor of board games and puzzles, a keen sportsman and an operational researcher.

I first met him on the testing panel of Games & Puzzles magazine in 1972. Eric provided the first in a series of Readers' Games" by describing his own (unpublished) game Fighting Sail. His subsequently published games were not numerous but were of sufficient originality to have withstood the test of time, being constantly republished over the years under various titles in the UK, Germany and the US.