Oh whoever could it be?

Was it Miss White? Or perhaps Colonel Mustard? The revolver or the rope?

This game of deception, deduction and timing really peaked my interest when I was younger and still keeps me entertained to this day! Always my go-to favorite board game and also a hilarious classic film: Clue.

Who didn’t want to be the one to solve the murder? How many chances would you need to finally crack the case? Were you that smarty-pants that could solve it in under five tries?

I already loved the game when I discovered the movie and then I found that I enjoyed it even more. There were finally people who really brought it to life (more so than the video/game board combo)! The thing that really got me was the fact that they came up with separate endings (at the time to get more people out into theaters to see it), but making it more truthful to the game itself.

It’s easy enough to play it and just use process of elimination to figure out who killed Mr. Body with whichever weapon in a random room, but what the movie did was make the characters way more believable and relatable. It gave each of them a backstory and, not to forget, a motive to kill.

I still relish when playing the game when someone gets to the point of needing to break out the Case File and see if their conclusion was correct. I always found that I needed the playing tokens to really showcase my accusations to really bring it to life!

What was your favorite game as a kid (or even an adult now)? Were you like me and trying to become a young Sherlock Holmes?

There is a game that a friend introduced to me that perhaps one day I will get a hold of and feature on a Murder Monday post, but it is very similar to Clue. In the game you are a guest in a house and get clues from a ghost to find out who killed them, in which room and by what method. Care to know more?