1985's "Clue" the movie remains more fun than the game

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This is the only Ludo I need!

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I like the prequel game – Kill Doctor Lucky. Basically you are trying to commit the murder that starts off Clue/Cluedo without the other players finding out.

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I totally agree.

“Deception: Murder in Hong Kong” has been one of my favorite deduction games in recent memory, it’s an asymmetric deduction game that has a fairly strong social deduction mechanic without being dominated by it in the way a werewolf style game is. It has only one critical flaw that is easy enough to house rule away.

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“Well, to make a long story short-“
“Too late”
/Madeline Kahn glares

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My family and I have been really enjoying the Harry Potter version of Clue. It’s a big improvement on the original IMO.

We play it with the following house rules:

  • Start the game with 100 house points, rather than 60. Being eliminated from the game due to point deduction outside your control is no fun.
  • A single use of Felix Felicis allows you to pass through multiple locked doors, should that be required (then turn in the card).
  • Rather than rolling the dice to move, use the “broom” help card to fly to any unlocked room (then turn in the card).
  • Rather than rolling the dice to move, use the “portkey” help card to teleport to any room, locked or otherwise (then turn in the card).
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You really can’t lose with anything that has Tim Curry in it. He makes good films better and bad films… watchable, at least.

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I agree that Clue(do) is one of the better educational games. It does teach not only what process of elimination is, but also how to interpret feints, how to bluff, and things like that.

It’s much better than Monopoly was at teaching that trying to corner a market only works for assholes who are also lucky bastards.

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Such a brilliant movie! I wonder if it would be rejected today as racist?

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One of the greatest movies ever made. Hands down.

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Yeah, CLUE is great if you get rid of the stupid movement rules between rooms. Someone being trapped in a hallway for a turn is just stupid. In our version you can move immediately to any adjacent room in one turn. Speeds the game up dramatically and eliminates wasted turns.

Edit: Wow, @Scurra beat me to it. It’s cool that we came up with the same workaround mechanics, though.

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“House Rules” are always better.
it is known.

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One of them (and my personal favorite) is the Kill Doctor Lucky by Cheapass Games.

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God, I haven’t seen Murder by Death since I was a kid and even then it was an edited-for-TV version. I don’t even remember what was racist about it but I’m sure it would be glaringly obvious on a re-watch.

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I remember first seeing Clue on either DVD or VHS - but before “just google it” was an obvious response to everything. In any case I was pretty confused by the 3 endings thing for a while before learning the history there. Love that movie.

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Mmm. Yeah. “Sidney Wang” played by Peter Sellers leaps immediately to mind. It’s still a fun movie, and often quoted by my inlaws; “There’s nothing in my dish… but my dish.”, “Buns? Buns? You bought buns and didn’t tell me?! Where are the buns!” etc.

My wife also really likes Clue. I have mixed feelings about it. I should give it another shot. The multiple endings are what really annoy me.

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I’ve actually only ever seen it with all three endings attached. Some day I need to watch each separate ending and determine where they diverge.

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It depends. Do you know the background to the name of the game Subbuteo? (Actually, I suspect that game never made it across the Atlantic, given that it is table football. That’s real football, of course. :slight_smile: )

Anyway, the guy who invented it wanted it to call it just “Hobby” because that’s what it was. But he was told he couldn’t, because that was too generic a word. So he called it after the Latin name of the falcon that is known as the Hobby instead, hence Subbuteo.

I guess it depends on your point of view…

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There are, even with the fixes, much better deduction games out there. My current favourite is Mysterium, which adds a social element.

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Mysterium is fantastic. And cooperative!

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I actually enjoyed that game as a kid, it was one of the few pleasant memories from my childhood, playing that with my family when we went camping.

The movie was OK, not as funny as I’d hoped. As @brainspore mentioned, it’s a lot like “Murder By Death” which I think is a lot funnier.