|
br264's Clue: Discover the Secrets (Other)
|
| [January 27, 2011 06:27:02 PM]
|
Deception of Clue
Clue is a multiplayer board game for three to six players. The objective of Clue is to find out who is the murderer, with what weapon, and in what room. The game play is a complete free for all, and there can only be one winner – if there is a winner at all.
Players:
Each player picks a color which is represented by game token. Each color is related to a persona of that make up the murder suspects. In this version of Clue, when each player picks his or her color, they get a personality card. With these cards a player has special abilities he or she can use upon their turn.
Board:
The layout of the board is of a mansion. Players make their way through each room, creating rumors as they go, attempting to narrow down the possibilities of who is the murderer. Players’ tokens start on colored squares that match their color persona. A player can move through the house by rolling the dice on their turn and moving in the hallways. Players can also use the secret passages in the rooms they are in, which will take them to other rooms. Players can create rumors about who the possible murderer is but can only suggest these rumors while in a room. The only room one cannot make a rumor in is the pool room. When a player has figured out who they believe the murderer is he or she must make their way to the pool room and make the accusation there.
Cards:
There are four types of cards used during Clue. Two of the cards are given at the start of the game, personality and rumor cards. The other two cards are mixed into a pile for players to use during game play. If a player rolls a dice and gets a question mark, he or she must draw a card. If a player lands on a question mark on the game board, he or she must draw a card. There are keeper cards and clock cards. Keeper cards can give the player the advantage of moving multiple times during their turn or can let them see another player’s rumor cards. Clock cards are harmless until the eighth card is drawn. When the eighth card is drawn the player that drew said card is now dead and out of the game. They must show everyone else their rumor cards and place the eighth clock card back into the card stack. The final clock card can be pulled over and over again. There is a chance for everyone to die before they can find the murderer and no one wins.
Game Play-
During the first running of the game, it was three people playing. It seems unfair because everyone can mark off half of the possible murderers, weapons, and rooms. It was also the first time any of us had played in a very long time so we took 20 minutes to read the rules and set up the board appropriately. Game started pretty slow, we all rolled the dice and move our tokens. It was when someone landed in a room where the game got interesting. He suggested a rumor that neither the other player nor I could prove him wrong. We thought, well this is going to be the fasted game of Clue ever. The other player and I rushed to the pool room to see who could make the accusation. The other player got there first and looked into envelope, which holds the answer, and discovered she was wrong. We just learned that it is ok for a player to use one of their own rumor cards when they started a rumor to trick everyone else. For rest of the game it was down to two players. The game became a little drawn out as it was just back and forth. Finally after visiting most of the rooms, it was the other player that won and not I.
During the second game that was played, the player who lost first knew what she was not going to do again. Everyone was very suspicious of each other and the game went slowly. In this game there was a better chance of seeing how the cards played into the game. There were only a few clock cards pulled and everyone got to use their keeper cards strategically. All in all it was a slow game and not as eventful as the first but was enjoyable. If we were to play again, we would invite more players so we could have a lot more fun.
add a comment 
|
|
|
 |
br264's Clue: Discover the Secrets (Other)
|
|
Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Tuesday 25 January, 2011
|
|
