This new version of the game offered major changes to the game play and to the characters and their backstories. Because the suspect, weapon and room cards in the envelope are picked randomly and change every game, the solution to Cluedo’s murder mystery changes each time you play. Cluedo - or Clue, if you’re in the US - is the ultimate board game murder mystery, and has been for over 70 years now. When asking a question, you must ask about one suspect, one weapon and the room your character is currently in.

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.Some of our vintage or prior versions of toy and game instructions may be more difficult to decipher or have less clarity.

As mentioned earlier, blocking passage of another player prevents them from attaining rooms from which to make suggestions. With the launch of the US 1972 edition, a television commercial showed Holmes and Watson engaged in a particularly competitive game. As well as being the investigators of the crime, the characters are also suspects in the murder - they must race to be first to work out who the murderer is, what weapon they used and where the murder took place. Clue "Master Detective" (1988), [29] an expanded version of the game featuring 12 rooms, 10 characters, and eight weapons with support for up to 10 players.The early lead pipings (lead pipes) were made out of actual lead and therefore posed a risk of lead poisoning. A deal was quickly struck to license "The Great New Sherlock Holmes Game" from the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle estate. 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"). Peacock has an immediate advantage of starting one space closer to the first room than any of the other players. Without looking, the person shuffling takes one suspect card, one weapon card, and one room card, then slides the cards into the secret envelope.

Various single space tracks on the board can therefore become traps, which are best avoided by a player when planning a path from room to room. It was retitled because the traditional British board game Ludo, on which the name is based, was less well known there than its American variant Parcheesi. Cluedo was originally marketed as "The Great New Detective Game" upon its launch in 1949 in North America.Shortly thereafter, Pratt and his wife, Elva Pratt (1913–1990), who had helped design 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", the Latin word for "I play" and the name of a popular board game based on Pachisi). Combine the remaining weapon, suspect and room cards into a single deck and give it a really good shuffle.