The Origins of Clue, The Board Game
MYSTERY MOB!
Happy first Friday of February! Last weekend I watched Clue, the 1985 Whodunit based on the classic board game. It holds up for the most part 30+ years later, plus it’s responsible for one of top all time gifs out there: Anyway, after watching, I started wondering more about the board game (which is just an all time, great board game. Top 5, I’d say). How did it come to be – who made it? What sparked the idea? Did the creator become a millionaire? Well, lucky for you, I did the internet rabbit hole research. Who did it? With What? And WHERE? Let’s find out. It’s not what you know it’s…which mansions you’ve been to? In the 1930s and early 1940s, a British musician named Anthony Pratt played gigs at country … Continue Reading (3 minute read)
In the original version of the game, Cluedo, the characters have full backstories.
And the movie is awesome
Considering the game dynamics, he must have felt fortunate that rich mansion owners hired him, as opposed to being hired by a two person party in a one room apartment with only a single weapon in the whole place.
It was OJ in the foyer with a knife
Celebrity Clue
What where the parlor games? Are their details of how they where played? How widely were these played?
And Monopoly was invented by a guy who observed rich people creating monopolies
VCR Clue is a great party game. Takes a little longer to get the hang of than regular Clue, but it’s worth it. You can get the game off of eBay pretty cheap, and the movie that comes with the game is on YouTube, so you don’t have to find a working VCR to play.
Wrong.
That’s how he invented “Cluedo”.
Clue is the silly American name for it.
So rich people in the past were literally behaving like Michael Scott?
I still love the fact that James Lipton was banging Miss Scarlett!
Oh man, if ever I find the time, I’m totally recreating the clue board-game in Minecraft.
As a kid I always thought it had to do with the murder of a local rich woman.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/06/23/glensheen-mansion-murders-still-grip-duluth
Cluedo?
The took Mrs. White out if the game but Colonel Mustard is still there.
Rich people used to play murder parlor games in their mansions? How does that even work? Do people still do this? Why did they stop?