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You can suggest yourself as suspect and can suggest any cards you have, to deduct range. For example, you are in Kitchen and you suggest Green with Candlestick in Kitchen. Other players must show one of their cards mentioned in this suggestion. Wait until someone can show you a card. If you figure out nobody, including you, have a card, it must be in the envelop. Keep suggesting to find out the other two cards there, then you will win.

Cluedo Wiki Explore. Popular pages. Orchid Mrs. Peacock Mrs. White Notepad. Film Board Game Mobile. Pratt fromBirmingham, England, and currently published by the American game and toy company Hasbro. The object of the game is to determine who murdered the game's victim "Dr. Black" in the UK version and "Mr. Boddy" in North American versions , where the crime took place, and which weapon was used.

Each player assumes the role of one of the six suspects, and attempts to deduce the correct answer by strategically moving around a game board representing the rooms of a mansion and collecting clues about the circumstances of the murder from the other players. Numerous games, books, and a film have been released as part of the Cluedo franchise.

Several spinoffs have been released featuring various extra characters, weapons and rooms, or different game play. The original game is marketed as the "Classic Detective Game", while the various spinoffs are all distinguished by different slogans.

In , Cluedo: Discover the Secrets was created with changes to board, gameplay and characters as a modern spinoff, but was criticized in the media and by fans of the original game.

Cluedo: The Classic Mystery Game was then introduced in , returning to Pratt's classic formula but also adding several variations. In , Anthony E. Shortly thereafter, Pratt and his wife, Elva Pratt , who had helped in designing the game, presented it to Waddingtons' executive, Norman Watson, who immediately purchased it and provided its trademark name of "Cluedo" a play on "clue" and "Ludo"; ludo is Latin for I play.

Though the patent was granted in , due to post-war shortages, the game was not officially launched until , when the game was simultaneously licensed to Parker Brothers in the United States for publication, where it was renamed "Clue" along with other minor changes.

There were several differences between the original game concept and that initially published in , In particular, Pratt's original design calls for ten characters, one of whom was to be designated the victim by random drawing prior to the start of the game. These ten included the eliminated Mr. Brown, Mr. Gold, Miss Grey, and Mrs. White and Colonel Mustard for the actual release.

The game allowed for play of up to eight remaining characters, providing for nine suspects in total. Originally there were eleven rooms, including the eliminated "gun room" and cellar.

Some of these unused weapons and characters appeared later in spin-off versions of the game. Some gameplay aspects were different as well. Notably, the remaining playing cards were distributed into the rooms to be retrieved, rather than dealt directly to the players. Players also had to land on another player in order to make suggestions about that player's character through the use of special counter-tokens, and once exhausted, a player could no longer make suggestions.

There were other minor differences, all of which were later updated by the game's initial release and remain essentially unchanged in the standard Classic Detective Game editions of the game. The game consists of a board which shows the rooms, corridors and secret passages of an English country house called Tudor Mansion , although previously named variously as Tudor Close or Tudor Hall , and in some editions Boddy Manor or Boddy Mansion.

More recent editions have restored the name Tudor Mansion to the mansion, and say the mansion is inHampshire, England in the year The game box also includes several coloured playing pieces to represent characters, miniature murder weapon props, one or two six-sided dice, three sets of cards, each set describing the aforementioned rooms, characters and weapons, Solution Cards envelope to contain one card from each set of cards, and a Detective's Notes pad on which are printed lists of rooms, weapons and characters, so players can keep detailed notes during the game.

Depending on edition, the playing pieces are typically made of coloured plastic, shaped like chess pawns, or character figurines. Occasionally they are made from wood or pewter. The standard edition of Cluedo comes with six basic tokens representing these original characters:.

In July Hasbro announced that Mrs White would be replaced by a new character Dr Orchid in future editions of the game.

The playing tokens are typically made out of unfinished pewter, with the exception of the rope, which may be made of plastic, metal, or string depending on edition. Special editions have included gold plated, brass finished and sterling silver versions, which have appeared in a variety of designs.

There are nine rooms in the mansion where the murder can take place, laid out in circular fashion on the game board, separated by pathways overlaid by playing spaces. Each of the four corner rooms contains a secret passage that leads to the room on the opposite diagonal corner of the map.

The centre room often referred to as the Cellar, or Stairs is inaccessible to the players, but contains the solution envelope, and is not otherwise used during game play. The crime would usually be the murder of another guest besides Mr. Boddy, a robbery of some sort, or a simple contest, in which case they must figure out who won.

The tenth and final vignette would always be the murder of Mr. Somehow, Mr. Boddy would always manage to cheat death, such as fainting before the shot was fired or being shot with trick bullets. However, at the end of the 18th book, Mrs.

Peacock kills Mr. Boddy out of starvation and Mr. Boddy stays dead. A similar series of books featuring the Clue Jr. The first book, unlike the others, features thirteen mysteries, not ten, and is titled simply enough Who Killed Mr Boddy? The name of the book is usually the name of the tenth mystery in which Boddy is killed. The books notably depart from the film. Mr Boddy is a trillionaire, and the guests are his friends.

But since Boddy has his will made out to his friends, they each try to kill him at one point with the intent on cashing in on his will. The guests are all given some sort of defining characteristic for comic effect, as well as to help the reader discern the culprit.

Colonel Mustard constantly challenges other guests to duels, Professor Plum often forgets things, even what he is doing or his own name, and Mr. Green is notoriously greedy. Peacock is highly proper and will not stand for lack of manners, the maid Mrs. White hates her employer and all the guests, and Miss Scarlet is beautiful and seductive.

The traits all help the reader identify the guests. For example, if a mystery thief suddenly forgets what he is doing, and another guest scolds him for his bad manners, the reader can safely assume the two guests are Plum and Peacock.

Boddy himself is ludicrously naive, to the point where he accepts any attempt to kill him as an accident or a misunderstanding such as a dropped wrench flying all the way across the Mansion and hitting him in the head , and invites the guests back to the mansion. This explains why he never seeks any legal action against his "friends," and invited them back despite repeated attempts to kill him.

However, after a few books, he wises up enough to be suspicious of them, but continues to invite them over against better judgment. The Clue Jr. The mysteries usually only included cases similar to the theft of a toy, but sometimes the cases were more serious. They are usually solved when the culprit traps himself in his own lies. The following games are licensed thematic variations of the original Cluedo game, which follow the basic rules and configuration of the original edition.

On August 8, , Hasbro redesigned and updated the board, characters, weapons, and rooms. Changes to the rules of game play were made, some to accommodate the new features. The suspects have new given names and backgrounds, as well as differing abilities that may be used during the game.

The revolver is now a pistol, the lead pipe has been removed, and a bat, axe, and trophy have been added. There is also a second deck of cards—the Intrigue cards. In this deck, there are two types of cards, Keepers and Clocks.

Keepers are special abilities; for example, "You can see the card". There are eight clocks—the first seven drawn do nothing—whoever draws the eighth is killed by the murderer and out of the game. The player must move to the indoor swimming pool in the center of the board to make an accusation.

This adds some challenge versus the ability to make accusations from anywhere in the original game. The most significant change to game play is that once the suspect cards have been taken, the remaining cards are dealt so that all players have an even number of cards rather than dealt out so that "one player may have a slight advantage".

This means that depending on the number of players a number of cards are left over. These cards are placed face down in the middle and are not seen unless a player takes a turn in the pool room to look at them.

The changes to the game have been criticized in the media for unnecessarily altering classic cultural icons. A variant of the game involves removing the dice rolling in the game.

Instead each player has nine "moves" to use on a turn with each move onto another space counting as one move, and an accusation, use of a secret passage, or guess, costing three moves, adding more strategy to the game. This variant is offered in the version of the Clue computer game.