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W hile playing a game of clue (the board game) , I was asking the other clue players what they think was the most probable clue weapon that a clue board game characters would use to commit the murder on Mr. Boddy. I got a couple of answers, so just for the fun of it, I will make associations between a clue character a clue board game weapon and a clue room. If you need a memory refresh about this game, you could start by playing Clue Online ... No friend needed! I will start with the male clue characters and in a second post the ladies of the clue board game. Clue board game character #1 Clue character (Colonel Mustard) Clue weapon (Revolver) Clue room (Conservatory) This one is obvious, this ex-military man would never go out without a revolver. For walking the dog outside, a camping trip or a fancy night at a mansion, he's the indicated clue board game characters for this clue weapon. Colonel Mustard and Revolver is a natural combination. Now let's talk about the room wh...

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...

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....