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The History and Popularity of the Board Game Clue
TLDR Clue, the classic board game, was invented by Anthony E. Pratt during World War II and has since become the third most popular board game of all time. The game involves deduction and process of elimination to solve a murder mystery, and has undergone various changes and adaptations over the years.
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The podcast episode is about the board game Clue and its history, including the invention of the game by Anthony E. Pratt.
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The inventor of Clue, Anthony E. Pratt, was inspired by a game called Murder that he played as a teenager, and during World War II, he and his wife created the game Clue during blackout conditions in 1943.
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The UK version of Clue was called Cluedo and had some differences from the American version, including different names for characters and a different modeled house, but the most iconic version of the game is the one on the cover of the 1972 American Board Game Edition.
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Clue is considered the third most popular board game of all time, after Monopoly and Scrabble, and is even more popular than chess and checkers.
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Clue is a classic board game that can be played with three to six players, and involves choosing a character and murder weapon in various rooms of a manor house.
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The goal of the game is to figure out who committed the murder, with what weapon, and in what room, and players gain information by making suggestions and having other players reveal cards that match their suggestion.
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One strategy in the game of Clue is to use suggestions to eliminate people, rooms, and weapons, and to throw off other players by mixing up your suggestions and not always using the same cards.
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The game of Clue involves deduction and process of elimination to figure out what cards are being held by players and what cards are likely hidden in the envelope as the murderer, murder weapon, and murder room.
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The game of Clue has undergone various changes over the years, including variations in character names and updates to the materials, but the latest edition has returned to the original premise and characters.
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There have been various spin-offs and adaptations of the game Clue, including versions featuring characters from Star Wars, Alfred Hitchcock movies, Scooby-Doo, The Golden Girls, and a 1985 movie with multiple endings.
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The movie Clue has a great cast, including Christopher Lloyd, Madeleine Kahn, Martin Mull, and Tim Curry, and if you're interested in learning more about it, you should watch it and not read or listen to anything else about it.
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