In , Universal Pictures reported that Hasbro, the makers of Cluedo , had licensed several of its board games to the film company for feature film adaptations; among these was Clue.
There have been several television game shows based upon this game. There have been, to date, four seasons of the British version of Cluedo and a Christmas version that in fact shows some similarity to the North American movie , and there have been other versions in Germany , France , Australia , Portugal and Scandinavia. There is a new murder victim every episode, who usually has it coming to them for one reason or another.
On American television, the Clue title and theme were used in the documentary Clue: Movies, Murders and Mystery, which took a look at mystery-related pieces of media, including Murder on the Orient Express , Murder, She Wrote , Sherlock Holmes and other television series and movies, as well as a look at the board game itself, among other things.
The one-hour special was hosted by Martin Mull , who had starred in the feature film adaptation the previous year; clips from the movie are seen intertwined with the footage. A comedic musical of Clue , based on the American version of the game, ran Off Broadway in , closing in At the start of each performance, three audience members each select one card from over-sized versions of the traditional game decks and place them in an envelope.
The chosen cards determine the ending of the show, with possible conclusions. Penned by Robert Duncan with the cooperation of Waddingtons, the first official theatrical adaptation of Cluedo was presented by the amateur theatre group: The Thame Players in Oxfordshire in July of A second tour was undertaken in Like the musical, the play involved the audience's random selection of three solution cards which were revealed towards the end of the play, whereupon the actors would then conclude the play by performing one of the endings possible.
Presently the play is not available for performance due to a restriction by Hasbro. A series of 18 humorous children's books were published in the United States by Scholastic Press between and based on the Clue concept and created by A. Parker possibly of Parker Brothers. The books featured the US Clue characters in short, comedic vignettes and asked the reader to follow along and solve a crime at the end of each.
The crime would usually be the murder of another guest besides Mr. Boddy, a robbery of some sort, or a simple contest, in which case they must figure out who won. The tenth and final vignette would always be the murder of Mr. Somehow, Mr. Boddy would always manage to cheat death, such as fainting before the shot was fired or being shot with trick bullets.
However, at the end of the 18th book, Mrs. Peacock kills Mr. Boddy out of starvation and Mr. Boddy stays dead. A similar series of books featuring the Clue Jr. The first book, unlike the others, features thirteen mysteries, not ten, and is titled simply enough Who Killed Mr Boddy?
The name of the book is usually the name of the tenth mystery in which Boddy is killed. The books notably depart from the film. Mr Boddy is a trillionaire, and the guests are his friends.
But since Boddy has his will made out to his friends, they each try to kill him at one point with the intent on cashing in on his will. The guests are all given some sort of defining characteristic for comic effect, as well as to help the reader discern the culprit. Colonel Mustard constantly challenges other guests to duels, Professor Plum often forgets things, even what he is doing or his own name, and Mr.
Green is notoriously greedy. Peacock is highly proper and will not stand for lack of manners, the maid Mrs. White hates her employer and all the guests, and Miss Scarlet is beautiful and seductive. The traits all help the reader identify the guests. For example, if a mystery thief suddenly forgets what he is doing, and another guest scolds him for his bad manners, the reader can safely assume the two guests are Plum and Peacock.
Boddy himself is ludicrously naive, to the point where he accepts any attempt to kill him as an accident or a misunderstanding such as a dropped wrench flying all the way across the Mansion and hitting him in the head , and invites the guests back to the mansion.
This explains why he never seeks any legal action against his "friends," and invited them back despite repeated attempts to kill him. However, after a few books, he wises up enough to be suspicious of them, but continues to invite them over against better judgment. The Clue Jr. The mysteries usually only included cases similar to the theft of a toy, but sometimes the cases were more serious.
They are usually solved when the culprit traps himself in his own lies. The following games are licensed thematic variations of the original Cluedo game, which follow the basic rules and configuration of the original edition.
On August 8, , Hasbro redesigned and updated the board, characters, weapons, and rooms. Notably, the remaining playing cards were distributed into the rooms to be retrieved, rather than dealt directly to the players. Players also had to land on another player in order to make suggestions about that player's character through the use of special counter-tokens, and once exhausted, a player could no longer make suggestions.
There were other minor differences, all of which would be updated by the game's initial release and remain essentially unchanged in the standard classic editions of the game. The game's current equipment consists of a board which shows the rooms, corridors and secret passages of an English country house called Boddy Mansion, although previously named variously as Tudor Close or Tudor Hall, and in some editions Tudor Manor or Tudor Mansion.
The game box also includes several colored playing pieces to represent characters, miniature murder weapon props, one or two six-sided dice, three sets of cards, each set describing the aforementioned rooms, characters and weapons, Solution Cards envelope to contain one card from each set of cards, and a Detective's Notes pad on which are printed lists of rooms, weapons and characters, so players can keep detailed notes during the game.
The pieces are typically made of colored plastic, shaped like chess pawns, or character figurines. Occasionally they are made from wood or pewter. The standard edition of Cluedo comes with six basic tokens representing the following original characters:. Clue Wiki Explore. Recent blog posts Forum. Explore Wikis Community Central.
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Miss Scarlett is the stock character of a femme fatale. She is typically portrayed as young, cunning, and highly attractive. She was known as Miss Scarlet in the North American version after She rolls first in the game. Colonel Mustard is the stock character of a great white hunter and colonial imperialist. He is usually a military man both dignified, dapper and dangerous. Originally patented as Colonel Yellow, his name was changed prior to the first edition of the game.
He rolls second in the game. White is usually the stock portrayal of a frazzled servant, but has also had a couple of divergent characterizations; the movie portrays Mrs.
White as a fellow resident guest. Originally patented as Nurse Whiteand changed prior to publication of the first edition. She rolls third in the game.
In , Parker Bros. These characters would appear in a number of other spin-off games and licensed products as well, and become the first of many new characters which would be created for subsequent games and products. In , Super Cluedo Challenge was released in the UK, followed by Super Sleuth, marking the second wave of new official characters to appear for the board games.
In , EA released an iOS game called "Cluedo" in which you play as a reporter rather than a house guest. Released in , Clue FX is an electronic talking version with audio voices and clues. The victim in this version is no longer Mr. Boddy or Dr. Black but is Mr. Along with it came some new characters.
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