The gameboard represents a castle with the following rooms: Library, Salon, Laboratory, Cellar, Crypt, Bedchamber, Garage, Hallway and the Secret Room. This means that together you can both deduce what’s missing all too quickly and it becomes more of a roll of the dice game rather than a strategy and deduction game. Cluedo Junior: The Case of the Missing Cake (2003) [38] released under the Clue brand in North America, is another children's variation where the players have to find out who ate a piece of chocolate cake and with what drink.

If a player does not have any of the cards, they must tell you they can’t answer and the question passes to the next player. Players use the characters Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Luna or Neville to find how, when and what spell was used to attack the student. Clue VCR II: Murder in Disguise (1987) [24] Sequel to Clue VCR Mystery Game; more scenarios with the same 10 characters from the first VCR game.

Clue: The Office Edition [85] (2009) Players at the Dunder Mifflin office are instructed by their boss Michael Scott to find out who "killed" HR rep Toby Flenderson (based on Discover The Secrets rules). The series is geared toward a more adult audience while still retaining some comic absurdity as did the 1990s series. In 1986, the marketing slogan added "Classic Detective Game" which persists through the last 2002/2003 edition. Another standard edition produced by Winning Moves, combines design elements from its Limited Gift Edition and its 1949 re-issue edition, to produce a new traditional edition of the game using the original 6 suspects, weapons and 9 rooms – the first of its kind released since the introduction of the Discover The Secrets spin-off game in 2008. Clue: Secrets In Paris [45] (2009) This variant of the game features the same weapons (and rules) as Discover the Secrets ( see above).

The classic mystery board game now has a variant and has become a fun and fast card game in this cluedo version, players use clue cards and dossier cards to find information and eliminate suspects, cards and weapons. The center 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 pads can keep not only a history of which cards are in a player's hand, but also which cards have been shown by another player. The location has been changed to Paris, and the suspects are now youthful teenage versions of their adult counterparts, on a class field trip, who must discover which of their classmates has stolen a piece of art from the Louvre. As all cards are different, the cards you have is not related to the murder so you can cross them out on Notepad. The allegations will fuel speculation over whether the cards were left deliberately as a boast, as clues for the police to follow, or whether they were planted there in an attempt to frame him. Place the characters on their labelled starting squares, or in the middle of the board if there are no labelled starting squares on your board.

Players roll the dice (some versions contain one and others two) and move along the board's corridor spaces, or into the rooms accordingly. Clue Little Detective (1992) [30] Perhaps in one of the biggest departures from the standard game, the object of this game is to be the first to reach the front gate from the attic after hearing a scary noise. The film, which featured different endings released to different theatres, failed at the box office, but has subsequently attracted a cult following.series originally had all six characters, but suddenly, some of the characters were taken out, leaving only four. The classic board game throws players into a tense whodunnit as they race to work how the owner of a mansion was killed. If the first player to the left of the suggesting player does not have any of the three cards needed to disprove the suggestion, the next player clockwise must disprove the suggestion, if possible, and so on clockwise until either the suggesting player is shown a card that disproves their suggestion, or each player advises that they can not disprove the suggestion. These cards represent the person who committed the crime, what weapon they used, and where it happened. In 1944, Pratt applied for a patent of his invention of a murder/mystery-themed game, originally named Murder!

The game features new, up-to-date weapons, rooms, and suspects as well as changes to the rules of gameplay ( see below).Instead players move from location to location to track down each of the suspects to gain their clues, before finding Inspector Brown to make an accusation. After starting his career writing about music, films and video games for various places, Matt spent many years as a technology, PC and video game journalist before writing about tabletop games as the editor of Tabletop Gaming magazine.