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T ime to take notes! We already saw in a previous post a clue strategy on how to use optimal paths between rooms, in the clue game arena, to navigate through the clue board game. Now it's time to reveal my clue strategy on how to take good notes to find the context clues of the murder. But before I do that, I wanted to mention that I recently played Clue Online (lack of friends), so if you are like me and would like to try my strategy, this online clue playing could be a nice way to do it. Back to my strategy, to do it, you'll need a piece of paper like this one (see clue detective note on the right). My clue strategy here is to not lose a single piece of information exchanged during an accusation done by me or any other player. With want to be able to resolve the clue murderer before anybody else. The clue player that takes the best notes is the one with the best clue board game strategy, period! clue board game strategy step 1 Here's how I fill my clue detective notes.

I n this post I want to talk about how I try to optimize my movements in the clue game arena. The arena is for me the actual board. I like this term since it sounds like gladiator fighting to kill someone! So, here's a picture of the clue arena with all the starting position of all clue suspects . My first goal in the arena is to move to a clue room with the less dice roll as possible. My favorite clue suspect and clue room duo are the conservatory and Mrs. Peacock. I don't know if it's a flaw in the board design, but if you look at the clue game board closely, you will see that there's only six square between Mrs. Peacock's starting position and the conservatory room door (shortest path between a room and a suspect starting position). The other reason why I like this duo, is that you end up in a clue room with a secret passage to another clue room. Using secret passages is a well known clue strategy to speed up the amount of accusation you can make every turn

M any times while playing clue the board game, I wonder, where can i play clue on the internet ? There must be a big community of people playing this board game on internet. So I made some research to find out how to play board game clue online. Cluedo.com The first clue online I found is cluedo.com. This one is a real investigation taking place in the real world. In other words, you need to go in real places and find real evidence and hints. The first online game of clue has taken place between september 22th 2006 and october 21st 2006 central europe time. The game was played in 4 weeks and each of them was an "episode". Each "episode" was starting on friday and ending the thursday after.During each episode, the goal was to earn has much point has possible by: finding non virtual hints and clue game resellers, playing mini-games, finding hints online and by making accusations (find the murderer). I found this formula to play board game clue online very interestin

The clue game arena or more commonly known has Tudor's Mansion, is the house where Mr. John Boddy was found dead. At the time of the crime, a bunch of people (the suspects) where in this mansion and one of them did the unthinkable! We all know those famous suspects by name, but do you really know who they are and why they were at Tudor's Mansion that night? Colonel Mustard (aka Michael Mustard) Did you know that this man never sleep without a revolver near his bed? That he received military decorations such has: The Distinguished Service Order (DSO) (UK military decoration) (for a battle at khyber pass in Afganistan, the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) , for his services in the army during the world war. He's a retired military man and he's also someone that attract ladies attention. He's in the clue arena for a reason, some said he made some kind of bad investment with Mr. Boddy and things didn't go well. We also eared some love stories going on between hi

Life is funny, my wife gave birth of a 7.2 pound baby three weeks ago and yesterday I was cleaning my basement and removing some dust from a pile of old board games when I dropped one of them... It was the game of life board game half crushed on the floor with all the kids rolling left and right. Ah, I wished I was a doctor. It's been a very very long time since I played the game of life (reason why dust was stacking up on the box) and was curious to find out if this board game was still fun 15 years later. So just to refresh some memories here's a couple of things you should remember about the board game called "The game of life" of simply "Life" (for french people, "Destin"). So let's start with a game of life flashback The first thing to remember is the way we were choosing a career. The choice was made right from the beginning and luck was a big factor to decide how much money you would make each pay day. Not much "The Game Of Life&q

The title says it all, this new series of post will answer this simple question: how do you play clue the board game ? Clue was one of my favorite game. I was always drive by the curiosity of checking the clue cards hidden in the envelope under the clue board game. For some strange reasons, I was also excited to have Miss Scarlet's clue card in my hand... So, like I said before, I will try to explain my way of playing the clue game by giving very clear tactics throughout this series of posts on Clue. Just to refresh the memories of some people that haven't played this game for a while, the goal of this board game is to solve the scene of a crime. Who's the killer, Where did he (or she) make the crime and With what weapon. How do we solve this crime? You go in the clue arena , you make your little investigation by asking people if they know something about the crime. The goal is to gather precious informations and deduce the crime scene before the other clue player.

Ok, we are down to the last post on "instructions for risk game board". In this final post I will explain how to conquer Europe and Asia and how to make sure you won't lose your previously acquired risk continent. The goal here is to be very careful to not let a breech open on you territories, since all your risk armies are mostly on continent`s borders. We need to take over Europe, and make sure that we don't let the doors open for an intrusion in africa or north america. The way I do it is through North africa on West Europe. If you take a look at the risk game board's map, you can see that Western Europe was the only way to North Africa (here I assume you have africa continent under control). So, from Western europe and from Iceland, you are in good shape to destroy what's left in Great Britain and Scandinavia. Northen Europe is probably very lightly defended since this country is not on a continent border. Don't rush to much at this point of the

I will take a pause from the Risk strategies, but don't worry, the "instructions fo r risk board gam e" s eries will resume shortly. I want to write about some things that might i nterest some of you, hard core Risk players. I work in the video game industry and very often we surf the net to find our competitor's latest creations. While surfing, I noticed that you can find free online game risk here and there. Since it`s not always possible to have you friend playing with you, online risk games could be a nice alternative. I have co mpiled the best risk boardgame online for you and put them in a nice list. So, for risk & boardgame & fr ee online games, go through this list and I hope you'll find some interesting Risk players online that likes this game as much has you do. List of best risk boardgame online free online game risk 2 demo from Hasbro Interactive taken at Gamespot's website. With th

In my next post, if you still have interests in my instructions (and risk & board game & free) for risk board game... I will write about how we should use the risk Australia continent as a trap and how we should plan the final blow on the remaining risk opponents. My other post on Risk board game Risk Strategy part I Conquer a continent fast, use extra armies wisely, find out the first part of my favorite Risk strategy. Risk Strategy party II Target South America, use Australia to bother Asian opponent, build up your defenses. Risk Strategy part III How do I use the Risk card at the right moment. The synchronous attack on Europe through north africa and Iceland. Risk Strategy final part The final move on Asia, how to use the Australian continent to lure your opponent, make your self big and overlap the continents. Risk online Tired of waiting after your friend to play this good old strategy board game, find out where and what you could do.

P art three, you still have risk & board game & free time and you are well positioned in north america, australia and south america. Your primary goal at this point is to play strong on the defense while you build up more armies to take over another Risk continent. You need to figure out the best way to proceed on this risk board game. That means, what Risk territories should I conquer next? With all the free time you had between turns you probably have a strategy by now but here's some more instructions for risk board game domination. If you take a closer look on the board continents that are not under your control yet, you will observe that if you take over Africa, only three territories can land an attack on your Risk troops from: western europe, south europe and Middle east. If you would conquer Europe Risk continent, you would face five possible path of attack from Asia and Africa. I don't even consider Asia at this point since it's too big and to many terri

F ollowing my previous post on " instructions for risk board game ", I will describe my Risk strategies to conquer the rest of the world. Now that you have conquered (the dice are rolling for you) Australia and you are getting more risk units every turn for this continent, you've been able to build up a great army in north america. On the Risk game board, you should focus on establishing good defenses in Greenland and Alaska. The point of attack will on south america through central america. You guessed right, the next victim will be Venezuela. So at this stage of the game, my instructions would be to attack only this section of the board game and not taking too much risk . The goal is to build up another big defense in Brazil. This might take a couple of turn but you need to stay focused on those instructions. Now that we have established a good defense in the following key locations: Indonesia, Greenland, Alaska and Brazil, we need to do two things to stick to my instr

A nother old favorite classic board game of mine, Risk. This game has taken so much hours from my life when I was younger. I remember playing Risk for countless hours especially during chrismas time with my cousins and brothers. The instructions for risk board game were given by my older cousin which was "the" Risk game expert. There's quite a few rules in this game and you need to know them well to be able to play this game. When comes the time to count the unit, you don't want to miscount them, otherwise thrust me, someone will let you know :) Recently, I played risk online and it brang back so much memories! So if you are a bit rusty with Risk, maybe playing the game online will help you refresh all your tactics. The instructions for risk board game" are one thing and the strategies are another. I like planning my units position in my head before the game starts (sometimes many hours before). I often use the same strategies and I had a lot of success with