Hasbro Cluedo - The Game of Great Detectives

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CLUEDO is the classic mystery game - a grand mansion … a dastardly murder … a gathering of suspicious characters. Games magazine included Clue in their Top 100 Games of 1980, praising it as "still the classic detective game", [37] Top 100 Games of 1981 ("[the] characters in this 32-year-old game have become household words"), [38] and Top 100 Games of 1982 ("Millions love this classic mystery game"). In the UK, Cluedo was marketed as "The Great Detective Game" from the mid-1950s until 2000, when it was rebranded as the "Classic Detective Game". If you ask: “was it Colonel Mustard with the Rope in the Drawing Room”, a player holding the Colonel, the Rope or the Drawing Room must show you a card. Each player tracks their clues in a detective notepad and eliminates information to investigate who killed Mr Black; where in the mansion they did it and what weapon was used.

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.Unlock The Ultimate Detective’s Package for a selection of 10 themes that transform the suspects, weapons and locations! Numerous games, books, a film, television series, and theatre adaptations have been released as part of the Cluedo franchise. However, Pratt himself said his inspiration was a murder mystery parlour game he used to play with friends in which youngsters "would congregate in each other's homes for parties at weekends. Party Chest Ltd is PCI Compliant, Registered for Data Protection with the ICO and Insured for Product and Public Liability. There are nine rooms in the mansion where the murder can take place, [23] : 121 laid out around the edge of the square game board.

Advertising at the time suggested players would take on the guise of "Sherlock Holmes following the path of the criminal", but no depictions of Holmes appear in the advertising or on the box.The object of the game is to determine who murdered the game's victim, where the crime took place, and which weapon was used. Each player begins the game with three to six cards in their hand, depending on the number of players. Includes Mansion Gameboard, 1 Yellow Murder Envelope, 1 Detective Notepad, 6 Character tokens, 21 Black CLUEDO cards, 13 Red Bonus cards, 6 Weapon tokens, 2 Dice and Game Guide. Notably, the remaining playing cards were distributed into the rooms to be retrieved, rather than dealt directly to the players.

Clue "Vintage Edition" (2005, 2009), [33] also released as Cluedo "Vintage Edition", is a re-formatted nostalgia edition into a "vintage" bookshelf collection along with a series of other popular boardgames.

At the start of each game, one suspect, one weapon, and one room will be removed from the deck, and the remaining cards will be dealt to the players. Peacock did the crime in the Ballroom with the Candlestick, a player with both the Ballroom and Mrs. A player makes a suggestion to learn which cards may be eliminated from suspicion, but in some cases it may be advantageous for a player to include one of their own cards in a suggestion.