New Clue Board Game
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Clue is a classic board game played bymillions of people throughout the entire world, but a new Clue board game has arrived.
The History of Clue
Clue is a classic style who dunnit that came about in 1944, the height of Noir fiction novels filled with their cheesy and offbeat detectives. Originally known as Cluedo, the game was designed by Anthony E. Pratt and later sold in 1947 to Waddington Games. In 1949 the game was sold to Parker Brothers for the US Market and renamed Clue. The rest is board game history.
Classic Clue Board Game
Mr. Body has a lot of secrets and has ticked off nearly every person he knows. He resides in a stately manner where those he has wronged have come to say hello. In the process of the evening – where Mr. Body continues to blackmail his guests – he is murdered.
Each player takes the role of one of six possible suspects:
- Mr. Green
- Professor Plum
- Miss Scarlet
- Mrs. White
- Col. Mustard
- Mrs. Peacock
All the suspect cards would be shuffled and one is drawn and put into an envelope along with a weapon and a location. You roll the dice and move the characters. Throughout the game, you are shown cards held by the other players. You mark off what you have seen and can, if you wish, make a guess as to who the killer is – where they offed Mr. Body and with what weapon. Be careful though because if you are wrong then you are out.
The mansion had several rooms you could trapse about in along with some secret passages for quick movement to certain rooms.
The New Clue Board Game
Clue has been around since the early 40’s and not much has changed until recently. Hasbro has taken it upon themselves to revamp the old standard of the whodunnit. The mystery that everyone loves to solve is a lot more of an intense experience than the original versions. The game has become more modern. The story is now set at a dinner party at a swanky mansion of a millionaire. Like the first gam,e it is your job to solve the murder of your host as he has met an unfortunate and untimely end.
The favorite characters are still present (with a few changes and additions), but the revolver has taken a powder as has the billiard room. The game pieces have changed as well. You could have Scarlet in the spa clobbering the millionaire mogul with a barbell. The instructions have changed and are now in "tabloid" style instead of just one sheet or printed on the box. They are more detailed as the game has become a lot more elaborate, so to accommodate the new rooms and weapons have been discussed in detail.
The game has also become more suspenseful by adding "intrigue" cards. These cards allow all sorts of nefarious things to happen. You can find yourself solving the mystery of the host a lot faster than would have been possible without the addition of the intrigue cards. The intrigue cards can also add another victim to the bloody pile.
Also new are rumor cards which can lead as well as mislead the guests in to making deductions that may or may not be accurate. You will hear facts (or are they?) so you have to use your powers of deduction (and a bit of strategy) to weed out the falsehoods.
The box comes with a gameboard – still laid out as a top down room view with floor tiles, 6 pawns (now known as guests), 6 personality cards which tell you a little something about the character you picked, a deck of rumor cards, a deck of intrigue cards, the familiar clue pad to record your findings and to eventually discern the murderer, the scandal envelope, a pair of dice, 9 weapons and of course the instructions.
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