Before you ask: Yes - this is a reupload. Nothing weird happened; I took it down to fix a couple minor errors I had overlooked before it got a substantial amount of hits.

I gotta say I'm disappointed the Simpsons version isn't called Clue d'oh.

Board game history is something I have precious little of in my YouTube feed. And this was particularly enjoyable!

I was always amused by the fact the "Revolver" is very rarely a revolver. When the game first debuted, it was a Dreyse M1907, which is a semiautomatic. This is weird, as the original patent papers for the game which show all of the proposed pieces do depict the Revolver token as an actual revolver, specifically a snubnose of some sort. But when Waddingtons actually made the game, they used the semiautomatic Dreyse for both the token and card art.

Later editions changed it to a (usually gold) Walther PP, also a semiautomatic (and interestingly, the card art still depicted the Dreyse). When the game moved from the UK to the US, the "Revolver" was re-imagined as a Colt M1911, yet again a semiautomatic.

Both the UK and US versions eventually changed it to an Allan & Thurber "pepperbox" pistol, which isn't a revolver in the conventional sense with a rotating cylinder. This is the version you have.

A few anniversary and expanded editions have depicted it as an actual revolver (a cartoonish-looking one of indeterminate make in Clue: Master Detective and a Webley of some sort in the 50th Anniversary Edition), and it's also been depicted as a suppressed Beretta in Clue: Discover the Secrets. Most modern versions of the game fix the issue by simply calling it "the Pistol" regardless of what it is, as that covers both revolvers as well as semiautomatics.

The movie, FWIW, did use an actual revolver, specifically a Harrington & Richardson army revolver.

Fl-Fla-Flames! On the side of my face!

I saw D&D Clue on that spinoff list and I'm wondering how that'd work.
"It was Galstaff, in the Dark Corridor, with the Scroll of Magic Missile!"

I adore the game, and the movie.  I remember playing the game all the time with my brother all the time as a kid.  One time he didn't separate the cards correctly, so all of the weapons ended up being accounted for.  It turned out that, according to the cards in the envelope,  Miss Scarlet did it in the conservatory, with Mrs. White.  Interpret that how you shall.

Excellent! This really made me want to finally break out my Clue VCR game. Good work!

When I was a kid growing up I had this board game called Harry Potter and the Mystery at Hogwarts. It was basically a clone of Clue that was themed mostly around the first Harry Potter book. This came out before the first film did I think. There was no mention of Clue anywhere but it was a whodunit deduction game set at Hogwarts.

Ah, I love the old Clue movie. Curry is the best.

As a board game junkie, this game is a rare gameplay gem from the old days.  There is real, solid, strategy required to win, and paying attention to your opponents actions is key to solving it faster than anyone else.  Trust me, so many old games are just roll and move, so this was such a step forward; in fact I would say that if you removed the roll and move, it would actually be a fairly solid design to the modern gaming crowd, something they kind of did when they did Clue: The Card Game.

I'm old enough to have seen Clue in the theater....  and one of the reasons it didn't do so great at the box office is that each theater got a different, random, ending.  They didn't combine all the endings and show them one after another until the VHS.   They advertised the hell out of the fact that if you wanted to see one of the other endings, you had to go see the movie again at a different theater.  There was a bit of a backlash because of it.. calling it a cheap money grab.

Thank you for including the movie Mrs. White's rant in this - the video would not have been complete without it!

The Clue books were awesome. I loved how Mr. Boddy's recap of the previous book got more and more sarcastic with him fully realizing that all of his "friends" were horrible people.

I downloaded Clue for the Switch and I has been enjoying it because finally, I can play it without the need of gather other persons in the same room.

>Clue AVP edition

How does that even work? "It was the facehugger on the escape pod with it's horrific appendages"?

I've played Cluedo with my family almost every Christmas since I can remember. The set we have always amuses me because the "revolver" piece and on the card is actually an automatic pistol, so we call it the "not-revolver". Also, one year I was banned from playing it because I won a game on my second turn! It was funny, though.

OMG you pronounced Birmingham correctly! +5 British respect points

Along with the original, I had Clue: The Great Museum Caper growing up. It's completely different but it's a ton of fun. One player is the thief stealing all the artwork and the other players try to work together to unveil and capture him/her before the thief can steal a certain amount of art and escape. It's a blast, check it out if you haven't!

The original "lead pipe" was literally made of lead (soft and somewhat flexible). No doubt, it was changed to zinc when children were chewing on and/or swallowing it. I distinctly remember playing with it in about 1970 (probably in a 1963 version of the game). I suspect the 1972 version may be the first which did NOT include an actual lead pipe.