Clue game 21

Quote: OnceDear

Sorry. I'd be dead set against that. This is principally a game of deduction. To make it necesary to have us all lunging/plodding to the room in question would seriously detract from the game and chance would start to dominate strategy..

I agree.

Quote: BBB

It also might be really interesting to require an accusation to be made while in the correct room, as done in the original game.

I looked it up in the official rules, which say you can name any three elements you want. Might this be a home rule, like the dreaded tax and fee money in Free Parking rule?

Quote: beachbumbabs

It also might be really interesting to require an accusation to be made while in the correct room, as done in the original game. I'd like us to consider trying that 2-3 times, see if it adds fun and strategy or is just a pita.

pita

if that was in the original rules, it is not in the 2002 rules

https://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/Clue_%282002%29.pdf

I'll eliminate the word 'trump' as long as that isn't an anti-Donald thing !!

Quote: FrGamble

I'm out for the foreseeable future, some big and busy days coming up.

It's been fun to play with you, Father. Merry Christmas!

Last call. I’ll set everything up when I’m off at 6.

Ok. It took a while, but I found the 1956 version of the Clue rules, which was the edition I had as a kid. I was incoerect saying you had to be in the room to accuse. You had to be in a room to suggest, and could only suggest that room, but accusations would be in any room. Which only makes sense, really.

I withdraw the suggestion of trying it.

Quote: beachbumbabs

Ok. It took a while, but I found the 1956 version of the Clue rules, which was the edition I had as a kid. I was incoerect saying you had to be in the room to accuse. You had to be in a room to suggest, and could only suggest that room, but accusations would be in any room. Which only makes sense, really.

I withdraw the suggestion of trying it.

I can remember playing and the frenzy of everyone trying to get to a certain room way back when. I suppose it could have been to make a suggestion, but I think actually we were just playing it wrong, thinking we had to be there to accuse too. It's a natural mistake to make.

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accusations would be in any room

is "it only needs to be your turn" a newer change to the rules?

Game 21

OnceDear as Scarlet
Wizard as Mustard
beachbumbabs as White
odiousgambit as Green
miplet as Peacock
Dummy as Plum

Scarlet (OD)
Enters Lounge
Suggests Colonel Mustard with Revolver in Lounge
Mustard (Wiz) disproves

Quote: odiousgambit

I can remember playing and the frenzy of everyone trying to get to a certain room way back when. I suppose it could have been to make a suggestion, but I think actually we were just playing it wrong, thinking we had to be there to accuse too. It's a natural mistake to make.



is "it only needs to be your turn" a newer change to the rules?

No, that goes back to at least 1956, and the game was first published in 1949. So seems likely it was always a rule. The info I saw was there were rule changes when the vhs version came out in 1986, and they believed that was the first time the rules changed.

They did emphasize the difference in the instructions, below.
This is a snapshot of page 4 of 4, of the 1956 rules:

Mustard (Wiz)
Stays in Lounge
Suggests Mrs. White with Revolver in Lounge
White (bbb ) disproves