History TabletopGame / Clue

[[caption-width-right:1000: The six suspects on the 1997 release of the American game. [[note]]From left to right: Rev. Green, Mrs. Peacock, Colonel Mustard, Miss Scarlet, Professor Plum, and Mrs. White. [[/note]]]]

The popularity of the game has caused it to be remade into a plethora of different locations and decades over the years. See ThemedStockBoardGame. It was popular enough to have its own [[Film/{{Clue}} film]], [[Literature/{{Clue}} book series]] (each chapter therein involves Mr. Reginald Boddy and his color-coded guests participating in some activity or another, which would form the basis of a puzzle for the reader to solve, and the final story always involves Mr. Boddy's murder), video game adaptations, [[TabletopGame/ClueVCRMysteryGame a VHS game]], [[Series/{{Cluedo}} a game show]], and a TeenDrama [[{{Series/Clue}} miniseries]] on Creator/TheHub. The film itself (starring Creator/TimCurry) is considered a cult classic. There is even an unofficial inversion of the game, ''TabletopGame/KillDrLucky''. Most recently, a [[http://comicsalliance.com/idw-hasbro-clue-allor-daniel-eccc-17/ comic book adaptation was announced for June 2017]] from Hasbro partner Creator/IDWPublishing set in ComicBook/HasbroComicUniverse.

* GenderEqualEnsemble: Three men (Green, Mustard, and Plum) and three women (White, Peacock, and Scarlet). Master Detective adds two men (Brunet and Gray) and two women (Rose and Peach). Some newer versions replace Mrs. White with Dr. Orchid, but the others remain unchanged, maintaining the equality. The film does this as well, in addition to the six regular suspects, there is one other man (Wadsworth, the butler), and one other woman (Yvette, the maid, as Mrs. White is a guest in this version). In ''Clue FX'', not only are there the regular six suspects, but one other man (Rusty, the gardener), and one other woman (Mrs. Meadow-Brook, wife of this game's victim) as well, while the players are the ones investigating the crime, and include two women (Miss Peach and Lady Lavender) and two men (Prince Azure and Lord Gray). In the prequel to this, ''Clue Mysteries'', the eight suspects from this game are the suspects, along with Prince Azure and Lady Lavender.

* GenderEqualEnsemble: Three men (Green, Mustard, and Plum) and three women (White, Peacock, and Scarlet). Master Detective adds two men (Brunet and Gray) and two women (Rose and Peach). Some newer versions replace Mrs. White with Dr. Orchid, but the others remain unchanged, maintaining the equality. The film does this as well, in addition to the six regular suspects, there is one other man (Wadsworth, the butler), and one other woman (Yvette, the maid, as Mrs. White is a guest in this version).

* GenderEqualEnsemble: Three men (Green, Mustard, and Plum) and three women (White, Peacock, and Scarlet). Master Detective adds two men (Brunet and Gray) and two women (Rose and Peach). Some newer versions replace Mrs. White with Dr. Orchid, but the others remain unchanged, maintaining the equality.

* GenderEqualEnsemble: Three men (Green, Mustard, and Plum) and three women (White, Peacock, and Scarlet). Master Detective adds two men (Brunet and Gray) and two women (Rose and Peach).

* BlackWidow: Mrs. Peacock married three times to rich men, and outlived all three. Sir Hugh, Dr. Black's/Mr. Boddy's late father, just missed being #4.

** Depending on the edition, ''Clue Jr'' has Mortimer Mustard, Georgie Green, Peter Plum, Wendy White, Polly Peacock and Samantha Scarlet.

* RollAndMove: You roll a die to move around in the hallway and try to reach a room so that you can ask a "clue" question regarding that room to gain information. You can also go for a Red Bonus space. In either case, you don't need an exact roll as long as the result is large enough to let you reach the room.

* UnintentionallyUnwinnable: An incorrect accusation takes a player out of the game. This trope comes into play if every participant except one does this at which point a botched accusation must be avoided at all costs.

* CoolGuns: The original guns in the British edition(s), a Dreyse M1907 and a gold Walther PP.

** The 2023 release of the game make Prof. Plum and Miss Scarlett black. Miss Peacock is "Solicitor Peacock," and Hispanic. Mr./Rev. Green is now Asian, as well as Mayor of Hue Valley.

* PyrrhicVictory: In the Marmalade 2023 mobile version if a player is the killer and they manage to weed themselves out they'll win... by [[HeelFaceTurn surrendering to the police.]]