Clue Master Detective

This article is about 1988 board game by Parker Brothers. For the 1989 video game, see Clue: Master Detective (video game). For its European counterpart, see Super Cluedo.

## Clue Master Detective

* Front cover
* Back cover

**Overview** • Rules • Gallery

## Product Infomation

### Published by

Parker Brothers
Winning Moves (reissue)

### Date of Release

1988 (original release)
 1 July 2018 (reissue)

## Game mechanics

### Mechanism

* Memory
* Paper-and-Pencil
* Roll / Spin and Move

## Source

***Clue Master Detective*** (also known as *Super Cluedo* in Europe) is a spin-off board game based on the original *Clue* board game, released in 1988 by Parker Brothers. It features additional suspects (who were from the 1980s VCR games), weapons, and locations.

In 2018, Hasbro Gaming and Winning Moves re-released *Clue Master Detective* in honor of its 30th anniversary.

## Publisher's description

Was it Madame Rose in the Carriage House with the Poison? Monsieur Brunette in the Trophy Room with the Horseshoe? Or was it our old friend Colonel Mustard whodunit in the Library with his trusty service Revolver?

You'll need your sharpest detective skills to solve the ever-changing CLUE MASTER DETECTIVE mystery, because in this expanded version of our classic game of detection, there are more rooms, more weapons, more suspects -- more mayhem!

The late Mr. Boddy's country manor has a total of twelve possible Murder Locations, both outdoors and indoors, with secret passages, plus new "Snoop Spaces" that let you broaden your investigation. A vial of Poison and a Horseshoe bring the number of Weapons up to eight. And the devious bunch of Suspects has grown to ten with the addition of Miss Peach, Monsieur Brunette, Madame Rose and Sergeant Gray.

With all these additional people, places and things to unravel, your most expert powers of interrogation and deduction will be called into play.
So shuffle the Suspect, Weapon and Murder Location cards, slip one of each into the Confidential Case File envelope -- and start sleuthing!

Turn by turn you probe, collecting evidence and pinpointing certain culprits, means, and rooms. Then, when you think you've got it, make your accusation: Whodunit? Where? With which weapon?

CLUE MASTER DETECTIVE ... it's so entertaining, it's criminal!

## Characters

### Victim

The victim of the game is Mr. Boddy, who has been murdered by one of the ten suspects mentioned down below.

### Suspects

In addition to the original six suspects from the original game, four more suspects were added, all of whom were formally introduced in the 1985's *Clue VCR Mystery Game*. This is also the first time - in the board games - where the characters were given first names and backgrounds.

* **Miss Scarlet**: *Red is the symbol for danger, and she is aptly named...* - Called the Mercenary of Macao - but never to her face - the sultry and sinister Scarlet will entertain any proposition that makes her a profit. After reading a how-to piece in the Society of Fortune Hunters Quarterly, she decided to try her hand at gold digging. But could the price of gold be murder?

* **Colonel Mustard** (Ret. D.S.O., B.E.F., Q.E.I.): *Distinguished himself behind the lines at the battle of Khyber Pass; a crack shot...* - Algernon Mustard, late of the Bengal Lancers, held regimental honors as a marksman with both elephant gun and small caliber pistol; after he was mustered out, he stayed on in the Punjab. The Colonel has traveled halfway around the world to see Mr. Boddy on a matter of grave importance, or so he says. But why does Mustard sleep with a revolver under his pillow?

* **Mrs. White**: *Did she get that squint spying through keyholes?* - The maid at Boddy Mansion since before the War - she won't divulge which one - Blanche White has seen 'em come and go. Trouble is, she's seen 'em when and where they weren't supposed to be comin' and goin.' Did she finally spy something that made her see red?

* **Mr. Green**: *Generally conducts business pool-side; acquired his lucky pinky ring as a "consideration"...* - Thallo Green, reputed kingpin in the "family" business, is a whiz at the numbers, but finds himself dangerously short of cash at the moment. He figured he'd get out of the jam with Mr. Boddy's help. Did he make him an offer he couldn't refuse?

* **Mrs. Peacock**: *An ornithologist whose specialty is birds of prey...* - After single-handedly saving the loggerhead shrike from extinction, amateur ornithologist Henrietta Peacock next turned her beady eye on the pied-bill grebe. Having spotted a pair nesting near the manor house, she came to beseech Mr. Boddy to create a bird sanctuary by donating his entire estate to the Peacock Salvation Society, of which she is the founder and sole member. Does Mrs. P have her eye on more than just the grebe?

* **Professor Plum**: *Archeologist of dubious distinction; makes frequent expeditions to political hot spots...* - Edgar Plum, Ph.D., head of the Archeology Department at a correspondence school, came to the manor to solicit financing for a bone-hunting expedition to an un-named Middle Eastern country. He knows just where to unearth a prehistoric skeleton to rival the Piltdown Man - he says he can feel it in his bones. But why does the Professor clam up whenever anyone digs into his past?

* **Madame Rose**: *This Hungarian psychic's come a long way from East Grinstead...* - Mr. Boddy's eccentric former secretary, Rhoda Rosengarten changed her name when she moved to Hungary to hang out her shingle as a medium. Last week, in the middle of a séance, she "saw" a dark, ominous cloud descending on Boddy Manor and took a tramp steamer from Budapest in order to warn her old employer. She didn't make it in time - or did she?

* **Monsieur Brunette**: *A man of many talents, many accents - many passports...* - Monseiur Alphonse Brunette deals in art and arms. Last year he almost made a killing in Paris when he produced what he swore were the missing appendages of the Venus de Milo. But this year his business is on its last legs due to the questionable authenticity of several Impressionist works he sold to Mr. Boddy. He claimed they were paintings by Monet - or was it Manet? As Alphonse always says, "Monet... Manet... What is zee difference?"

* **Miss Peach**: *This southern belle's favorite flower is deadly nightshade.* - She arrived at Mr. Boddy's door without an invitation - or luggage - and announced that she's his long-lost-great-step-niece, Georgia. When pressed, she explained that she decided on very short notice to take a long vacation in the country - any country?

* **Sergeant Gray**: *Which side of the law is he on?* - The local enforcer literally stumbled on the scene of the crime while making his regular weekly visit to the manor collecting funds for the Police Blackmail Awareness Program. Could his unimaginative approach to crime stem from the fact that Gray always sees things as either black or white?

## Weapons

There are 8 total weapons in *Clue Master Detective*:

* **Knife**: "Made in Macao" is inscribed on the blade.
* **Candlestick**: Very solid brass and very, very blunt.
* **Revolver**: When was it last fired?
* **Rope**: Whose hobby was knot-tying?
* **Lead Pipe**: If this was the weapon, solving the mystery will be a cinch!
* **Wrench**: Whose fingerprints are on the grip?
* **Horseshoe**: Which suspect brings his own horses to the country?
* **Poison**: Who broke the wax seal? (MLD:3mg)

## Locations

Boddy Manor has twelve possible scenes of where the murder took place (from inside the manor and outside on the grounds).

* **Gazebo**: Are those a peacock's footprints in the grass?
* **Courtyard**: Whose Rolls Royce purred in at midnight, but was gone by dawn?
* **Fountain**: Should it be drained and searched for clues?
* **Drawing Room**: Did the game of cat and mouse lead to this room?
* **Library**: Why did Mr. Boddy collect memoirs of famous spies?
* **Billiard Room**: Has something been added to turn the gin pink?
* **Dining Room**: Why is there a scent of red herring in the air?
* **Kitchen**: Are all of the knives present and accounted for?
* **Studio**: Who is the exotic woman Mr. Boddy painted again and again?
* **Conservatory**: Is that a bullet hole in the glass?
* **Trophy Room**: Had the horseshoe been removed, then replaced?
* **Carriage House**: Has someone rummaged through the chauffeur's toolbox?

There is a thirteenth location - the Cloak Room - which serves as the starting space for all the characters.

## Gallery

Due to the amount of images relating to this article, ***Clue Master Detective*** now has its own gallery.
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