‘The Great Detective Game,’ Cluedo’s slogan.
- Cluedo is a board game that requires the use of reasoning and logic skills and has a murder and mystery theme.
- Cluedo was designed by Anthony Pratt, a successful musician, who thought of the game during World War II.
- The game was first made in 1949 by Waddingtons who changed the name from ‘Murder’ (which the Pratt’s had called it) to ‘Cluedo’.
- In North America, Cluedo is known as Clue and some of the character’s names are changed.
- Cluedo was first designed to have 11 rooms, 10 characters and 9 weapons instead of the typical 9 rooms, 6 characters and six weapons.
- Elva Pratt, Anthony’s wife, designed the original artwork for the Cluedo board.
- ‘Cluedo’ is a combination of the word ‘clue’ and ‘ludo’, ‘ludo’ being Latin for ‘play’.
- Although Cluedo was initially designed as a game, it has been turned into films, books and other types of media.
- The murder victim of Cluedo is Dr Black, or Mr Boddy.
- The typical weapons of Cluedo are the candlestick, dagger, revolver, lead pipe, wrench and the rope, however, Pratt’s original game included an axe, bomb, syringe and poison as well as some other interesting weapons.
Bibliography:
Cluedo 24 January 2013, Wikipedia, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluedo>
