History TabletopGame / Clue

* MeaningfulName: The six suspects have their last names associated with the color they're wearing (peacocks are blue, scarlet is a shade of red, and so on). And of course, there's [[IncrediblyLamePun Mr. Boddy]]. The British victim, Dr. Black, is sometimes illustrated as wearing black.
** Depending on what version you're playing, there may be various characters added in besides the main six. Such as Emily Peach, or Graham Slate-Grey.

** Even better, ''TabletopGame/{{Battleship}}!''
** In all due respects, the movie version of this game was WAY more successful than ''Film/{{Battleship}}'' which is, quite frankly, something Paramount would like to forget.

** Even better, TabletopGame/{{Battleship}}!

* RetCon: There was a book series where each book contained many short stories; each story was an activity, planned by Mr. Boddy for his color-coded guests, which would form the basis of a puzzle for the reader to solve. In the final story of each volume, Mr. Boddy would be killed...then the foreword of the next volume would be written by Mr. Boddy, explaining how he survived his supposed death at the end of the previous volume.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience

* AbsentMindedProfessor: Prof. Plum

* RaceLift: For a while in the 90's Miss Scarlett looked Asian.
** In recent editions, Mr Green is black.
* RedHerring: Sometimes wily players will suggest one of their own cards in their investigation in an attempt to mislead the other players into thinking he/she doesn't have it.
* ReTool: Every few years there is a new attempt to modernize the setting. It rarely ever lasts long.

* SouthernBelle: Miss Peach (an expanded character in some versions), is portrayed as this in the VCR Mystery Game.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: An obscure character that showed up in older versions was a shy kindly school teacher named Miss Peach.
** Miss Peach also shows up in the Master Detective set as either Boddy's LongLostRelative or a grifter (it's never made clear).

Created in 1949 in Britain, ''Cluedo'' (''Clue'' in North America) is ''the'' iconic mystery board game. Dr. Black (Mr. Boddy in North America) has been murdered in his own mansion and the six people that were present are now considered suspects. Players take the role of any of the six suspects and receive cards containing illustrations of the suspects, the rooms or the weapons. One card of each category is placed in an envelope. To play, the suspects must enter a room in the mansion and make a suggestion such as, "It was '''Colonel Mustard''' in the '''kitchen''' with the '''candlestick!'''" A different player can reveal a card that matches the suggestion to disprove it. To win the game, a player must make an accusation that matches all three cards contained in the envelope. If the accusation is wrong, the player must sit out for the rest of the game. Note that a player can accuse his own character if he believes himself to be the murderer. [[FridgeLogic It doesn't make much sense if you think about it,]] though [[TheKillerInMe they could have had amnesia]].

Created in 1949 in Britain, ''Cluedo'' (''Clue'' in North America) is ''the'' iconic mystery board game. Dr. Black (Mr. Boddy in North America) has been murdered in his own mansion and the six people that were present are now considered suspects. Players take the role of any of the six suspects and receive cards containing illustrations of the suspects, the rooms or the weapons. One card of each category is placed in an envelope. To play, the suspects must enter a room in the mansion and make a suggestion such as, "It was '''Miss Scarlett''' in the '''kitchen''' with the '''lead piping'''." A different player can reveal a card that matches the suggestion to disprove it. To win the game, a player must make an accusation that matches all three cards contained in the envelope. If the accusation is wrong, the player must sit out for the rest of the game. Note that a player can accuse his own character if he believes himself to be the murderer. [[FridgeLogic It doesn't make much sense if you think about it,]] though [[TheKillerInMe they could have had amnesia]].

* GreatWhiteHunter: Col. Mustard

* MarketBasedTitle: "Clue" in North America, with Miss Scarlett losing a "T", Rev. Green being defrocked and the distinguished Dr. Black reduced to dull Mr. Boddy.

Created in 1949 in Britain, ''Cluedo'' (''Clue'' in North America) is ''the'' iconic mystery board game. Dr. Black (Mr. Boddy in North America) has been murdered in his own mansion and the six people that were present are now considered suspects. Players take the role of any of the six suspects and receive cards containing illustrations of the suspects, the rooms or the weapons. One card of each category is placed in an envelope. To play, the suspects must enter a room in the mansion and make a suggestion such as, "It was '''Miss Scarlett''' in the '''kitchen''' with the '''lead piping'''." A different player can reveal a card that matches the suggestion to disprove it. To win the game, a player must make an accusation that matches all three cards contained in the envelope. If the accusation is wrong, the player must sit out for the rest of the game. Note that a player can accuse his own character if he believes himself to be the murderer. [[FridgeLogic It doesn't make much sense if you think about it,]] though [[FridgeBrilliance they could have had amnesia]], leading to a TomatoInTheMirror moment.

The popularity of the game has caused it to be remade into a plethora of different locations and decades over the years. It was popular enough to have its own [[Film/{{Clue}} film]], book series, video game adaptations, a game show and a TeenDrama [[{{Series/Clue}} miniseries]] on TheHub. The film itself (starring TimCurry) is considered a cult classic.

* GuileHero: Wadsworth

* BlackWidow: This is Mrs. White's backstory. She's had five husbands, and we learn the fate of two. One was an illusionist who disappeared and never reappeared ("He wasn't a very good illusionist"). As for the other, according to Mrs. White, ''someone'' "had cut off his head and his, well, ''you know''."
--> Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong, and disposable.

* TheMovie: One in that rare genre, board-game-to-movie adaptations. What next, ''Man to Queen: A Pawn's Journey