Clue: The Murder of Mr. Black

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WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS

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Clue: The Murder of Mr. Black is a murder mystery game that was available for a limited time on Adventure Escape Mysteries. The game was made in collaboration with Hasbro and features an original story as well as characters from the classical board game Clue.

## Synopsis

In Clue: The Murder of Mr. Black, meet a cast of colorful suspects while you explore the manor and locate clues to solve the case. Who killed Mr. Black, with what, and where?

## Characters

* Detective Brown
* Mr. Boden Black
* Professor Plum
* Chef White
* Miss Scarlett
* Solicitor Peacock
* Colonel Mustard
* Mayor Green

## Plot

During a thunderstorm, Detective Brown is called to investigate a triggered alarm at a large country estate.

When he enters the mansion, he discovers that the power is out. In the pitch dark entrance hall, Brown meets Professor Plum who introduces himself as director of the Department of Antiquities at the local university. Brown asks him if he is the owner of the house, but Plum reveals that the home belongs to Mr. Boden Black who invited him and five others to his house that evening in order to present a new business venture. Brown finds Plum slightly suspicious. He starts taking notes about the information he has collected.
Brown then proceeds to restore power by fixing the fuse box in the Hall. With the power restored, they discover Mr. Black's dead body on the stairs. Brown examines the body and finds redness around the victims neck, which indicates strangling as a potential cause of death.

Brown moves to the next room, the dining room. Inside, he finds Chef White about to climb out the window. She explains that she was trying to get out of the house after she heard a gunshot and the power went out. White reveals that she had worked for Black for years. She also claims that she isn't surprised that Mr. Black is dead, as she found the other guests to be very suspicious. Brown asks her to wait in the hall.

He then examines the dining room and finds suspicious foot and handprints inside the fireplace. On the dining table, Brown discovers a blueprint of Mr. Black's business venture: Black Hotel and Suites, along with pictures and descriptions of all guests and their assigned roles. It is also implied that the endeavor was not entirely legal, and Black was relying on threats and blackmail in order to make his guests comply.

After Brown is done with the dining room, Plum comes in and hands him a key that he found, which has a 8-ball for a keychain. Brown asks him if he also heard a gunshot earlier, and Plum confirms that he did. Regarding the key, Brown learns from Plum that there is a Billiard Room across the hall, he then goes there to investigate.

In the Billiard Room, Brown meets Miss Scarlett. It turns out that she already knows Detective Brown from her job as a journalist, and that she also already deduced that Mr. Black is dead from the gunshot that she heard. Brown is surprised about Scarlett's coolness regarding her host's death but she replies that Black has made some enemies with his dealings and that she understands that someone decided to push back. However, she can't (or won't) say who might be the murderer, so Brown asks her to join the others in the Hall. Brown views the security footage from the Billiard Room. It shows Miss Scarlett and Mr. Brown, with Scarlett pulling a knife from her purse. Unfortunately, the footage ends there because of the power outage. When Miss Scarlett comes back into the room, Brown confronts her about the footage, and Scarlett admits that she gave the dagger to Black to protect him, because she felt he might be in danger.

Back in the hall, Plum informs Detective Brown that blood has begun seeping from the body. Brown examines the body again and discovers a stab wound, and Scarlett's bloody dagger. However, the wound is only skin deep, ruling it out as the cause of death.

Brown also manages to restore power to the next room, the library. The door is locked like the others, but Brown can hear a woman from inside the room. With her help, he opens the door. The woman turns out to be Solicitor Peacock. Brown tells her about Mr. Black, but she does not seem surprised about his death, either. Brown asks her about the gunshot, but surprisingly, she claims to not have heard anything. Brown dismisses her to the hall, and searches the library. He discovers a safe, along with a security system that seems to have triggered the alarm in the house. The safe is still locked, but it has taken obvious damage from a bullet. In the bushes outside the window, Brown finds the gun - Peacock must have used it on the safe, then flung it out the window.

Brown opens the safe. Inside, he finds the leverage that Black had collected on his guests: Plum is a fraud with a fake PhD, Chef White had been stealing money from Black's restaurant, and Scarlett was using a pen name to defame powerful people. Inside a secret compartment in a book shelf, Brown also finds a tape, slides, and newspapers revealing that Colonel Mustard's medal of honor was bestowed by mistake.

Suddenly, there's a commotion across the hall.

## Notebook entries

### Suspects

***Professor Plum:*** "An avid collector and professor of rare antiques and artifacts"

* "He was in the Hall when I arrived. He said he and five other guests came to meet about Mr. Black's new business venture."
* "Lent me his candlestick to help restore power in the Hall. He seems suspiciously eager to have it back."
* "Mr. Black wanted to hire him to forge his new hotel's legal documents."
* "Claims to have heard a gunshot just before the power went out."

***Chef White:*** "The creative head chef at Mr. Black's restaurant"

* "Chef White was found in the dining room next to an open window. Claims she heard a gunshot, then everything went dark."
* "Mr. Black wanted to hire her to run the restaurant at his new hotel."

***Miss Scarlett:*** "A sought after journalist and socialite"

* "Mr. Black wanted to hire her to spin a positive press release, praising the plans for his new hotel."

***Solicitor Peacock:*** "A tenacious and talented lawyer"

* "Mr. Black wanted to hire her as his lawyer, and to fight any legal opposition towards his new hotel."
* "Was found in the library. Claims to have not heard the gunshot."

***Colonel Mustard:*** "A proud and strong retired army colonel"

* "Mr. Black wanted his support to give his hotel a sense of respect among the populace."

***Mayor Green:*** "The upbeat mayor of Shady Grove"

* "Mr. Black wanted him to approve all plans and licenses for his new hotel."

### Victim

***Mr. Boden Black:*** "A cold, cunning and powerful businessman"

* "Found a red rash on Mr. Black's neck. Almost looks like a rope burn. Was he strangled to death?"
* "A dagger was found under his suit jacket with a large cut on his hip. The wound is only skin deep."

### Murder Weapons

* ***Candlestick:*** "I got this from Plum in the Hall."
* ***Dagger:*** "Found on Mr. Black's body, along with a laceration likely caused by the dagger."

### Map

* ***Hall:*** "The power went out in the mansion. Likely caused by the thunderstorm."
* ***Dining Room:*** "Found some foot and handprints in the soot of the fireplace. Was someone crawling around in there?"
* ***Billiard Room:*** "Found a security terminal revealing footage of Scarlett pulling a dagger on Mr. Black."
* ***Library:*** "A safe was shot with a revolver, triggering the security lock down and sealing all of the doors."

## Puzzles

### Chapter 1

**Unlock Fuse box**: Find the other half of the note, unlock the code by taking a look at the shapes on the note and entering the corresponding numbers. (4-5-3-4)

**Fuse Puzzle**: Move each colored spark onto its matching colored fuse.
(pink: up-left, yellow: right, blue: right-up, green: right-up, blue: right)

**Unlock Dining room door**: Activate the hidden switch behind the plant, Find the missing animal emblem inside the vase, Rotate the emblems to match the animals on the edges of the door frame.

**Assignments**: Find the missing pictures of Mr. Black and his guests, Drag each guest's photo to the correct description card on the blueprint.
(Office Suites: Green, CEO: Black, Boardroom: Scarlett, Hotel Lobby: Mustard, Land Acquisition: Plum, Law Office: Peacock, Restaurant: White)

**Unlock Billiard Room:** Find the dart under the jacket. Use the dart on the dartboard. Use the key on the door lock.

**Pool Game:** Collect all hidden balls in the room and place them on the table. Push every ball into the right direction. (1: bottom-right; 2: top-right; 3: bottom-left; 4: bottom-right; 5: bottom-left; 6: top-left)

**Cables Puzzle:** Use the bottles as a clue. Each bottle design contains a shape and number. Pull the cable from each shape to its matching number. (leaf: 4; circle: 8; hammer: 2; diamond: 12; skull: 14; heart: 9; feather: 7; sun: 3)

### Chapter 2

**Fuse Puzzle II:** (blue: right-up-right-up-left; yellow: down; green: down; pink: up-left; yellow: right; green: right; yellow: up)

**Library door:** Look at the drawing of the pattern on the other side. Use a mirrored version of this pattern on your side of the door.

**Rotating Maze**

## Trivia

* This is the first game published in collaboration with another company
* This is the first game published that was available only for a limited time