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Clue-The Board Game

  Hi Everyone!  I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Board games are the staple of families and have been enjoyed for decades.  I wanted to write a post on a game that I loved playing when I was a kid.  Monopoly, Sorry, Payday, and Operation were some of the games that I relished over the years.  But there was one game that still stands in my mind as one of the greatest games which I never tired of playing:  Clue. To give you some background on this game, Clue was originally titled Murder! and was the brainchild of Anthony Lee Pratt, a English solicitor's clerk.  He dreamed up this game as a way to past the long hours from air raid drills in underground bunkers.  Mr Pratt presented his idea to Norman Watson, who changed the title to "Cluedo", which is play on words of "clue" and the Latin word of "ludo", which means "I play".  The game was launched in 1949 in America after it was licensed to Parker Brothers fo...