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Clue/Cluedo is a digital adaptation based on the official Hasbro board game developed by Marmalade Game Studio for iOS and Android mobile devices as well as Steam and Nintendo Switch. The object of the game is to determine who killed the game's victim Dr. Black (or Mr. Boddy).
Apr 8, 2023 · The original Cluedo game featured a mansion with nine rooms and six characters, each with their own unique name and backstory. The players took on the roles of these characters and attempted to solve the murder of Dr. Black, who had been found dead in the mansion.
Apr 29, 2020 · The board game “Clue” goes all the way back to the 1940s when it was branded “Cluedo” oversees and presented stateside by Parker Brothers. Today, Hasbro owns “Clue” (they purchased the Parker Brothers outfit in the 1980s) and, over the years, the product has undergone creative spinoffs.
- Clue was invented during the UK air raids of World War II. In the early 1940s, a British musician, fire warden, and munitions factory worker named Anthony Pratt was holed up in his Birmingham home during air raids.
- Clue wasn’t always called Clue. When Pratt sold his game to Waddington’s, he named it Cluedo, a blend of clue and Ludo, the name of a 19th century board game that’s Latin for “I play.”
- Early versions of Clue featured different weapons. Pratt’s earliest ideas for murder implements were sketched by Elva and were originally a bit more gruesome.
- Clue's Colonel Mustard was originally Colonel Yellow. Pratt detailed 10 characters in total in his patent application: Doctor Black, Mr. Brown, Mr. Gold, the Reverend Mister Green, Miss Grey, Professor Plum, Miss Scarlett, Nurse White, Mrs. Silver, and Colonel Yellow.
Mar 5, 2024 · Postwar shortages slowed production, but the game finally appeared on shelves in 1949 as Cluedo, a mashup of Clue and Ludo.
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Cluedo (/ˈkluːdoʊ/), known as Clue in North America, is a murder mystery game for three to six players (depending on editions) that was devised in 1943 by British board game designer Anthony E. Pratt. The game was first manufactured by Waddingtons in the United Kingdom in 1949.
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Sep 26, 2018 · Clue (known as Cluedo outside of North America) is arguably one of the most well known board games of all time. Originally created by Anthony E Pratt and his wife Elva Pratt in 1944, Clue did not make it to market until 1949 when it was first released by Waddingtons and Parker Brothers.
