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Clue Mysteries

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Clue Mysteries is almost Guess Who meets Clue. Players walk around the board visiting the police office, Mr. Boddy's Tudor Mansion, and the residences of the the six original Clue suspects, all to determine the culprit of a crime. The eight locations on the board provide a clue as to the guilty party and his or her whereabouts. The suspects provide hints such as the guilty person wears glasses, or has gray hair, and you use these clues to narrow down your list of possible culprits. One twist is that one of the suspects could by lying.

Overall, this game plays much differently than the original Clue. The setup involves setting each suspect's "residence" to the correct clue for this game--a process that is guided by the playbook that comes with the game. Then a brief introduction to the mystery is read, and the game begins. The players only really need to deduce who is guilty, since landing on Tudor mansion in any given turn gives away the whereabouts of the culprit. Every roll of the die results in either a visit to one of the eight main spots on the board, or the drawing of a card that usually lets you visit one of the eight main spots on the board. The game moves much more quickly than Clue or Clue FX, but mostly because it's so easy to win.

In the end, this game is much simpler and less challenging than other Clue games. Add in the fact that there are only fifty mysteries total, and you drastically reduce the replay value of the game. It's an interesting spin on a classic, but the classic proves to be more entertaining.

I bought The Clue Mysteries thinking it would be better than the original. I was so wrong!!! It took longer to set up, was more complicated (yet less fun to play) and once you have solved all 50 mysteries (easier to do than you would think), it is worthless. The decoder clues are hard to read, the code wheels are hard to move, and the decoder pieces are easy to lose. My kids are eight and ten and found this game frustrating, boring and not worth the extra time to set up. This was a Christmas flop! Do yourself and your kids a favor. Buy the original, it is more entertaining.

This certainly is an intriguing game. I have played it a couple of times with family and have found it to be quite entertaining.

The gameplay is nothing like Clue. Instead, you are presented a mystery. You travel around the board retrieving clues that lead you to the solution to the mystery. The gameplay is pretty straightforward.

The execution, however, is a bit difficult. The various tools used to decode the clues, I found, add an unnecessary level of difficulty to the game. Getting the mirror in just the right spot, using the magic red filter...all cute but unnecessary tricks that add little to the gameplay. The cases themselves are of moderate difficulty.

The game is well-suited to a mixed group of adults and older children. Adult-only crowds probably will not enjoy this game terribly unless the group has some affinity toward Clue itself. Those familiar with 221B Baker Street will find an uncanning similarity, but the 221B game, I find, has a much better execution and plays much better in an adult-only setting.

This is not a bad game, but play 221B Baker Street if you want more of a challenge.

My sons and I gave this game to my husband for Christmas. We spent New Years Eve as a family playing this game over and over. It was not too easy for the adults and not too hard for our 8 year old and 11 year old boys. Great family game!!!

Very interesting spoof of the original game. I found the first one boring after a few plays, but this one still interests my kids and I after 10+ plays. It's a bit convoluted to put it together initially, but well worth it.

Excellent product! I really appreciate the option to choose any of the 50 given mystery cases to solve. After playing all 50, you can just start all over again! Fun, fun, fun game! THANKS!

I'm a huge clue fan and I'll play that game every day if I could.

This game is even better.

In CLUE MYSTERIES, there are 50 different cases for you to solve in the rule book included with the game. Each case you must prove someone guility, like in the main game CLUE.

Once you get the idea of the game it is very simple to play. My family and I play this game all the time and you'll want to too. It's just a very fun family game.

This is more challenging than the original Clue or Cluedo, but you can only play about one hundred times if you have a good memory, or unlimited times if you have a bad memory.

The game play is fun, and there is a challenge to it, but the pieces are quite difficult to put together, fortunately, you only have to put it together once.

My kids, ages 5, 8, and 10, absolutely LOVE this game. As another reviewer mentioned, it is very much like "Guess Who" in that you basically go around the board collecting clues (is not a man, has gray hair, is wearing a hat) and, by the process of elimination, logically decide who is the criminal.

The itself board is visually appealing - a British town square represented with rich, vibrant colors. There are also clue cards and scene cards that make the gathering of clues somewhat more difficult. But overall, once the game is set up, it is very straightforward to play.

The game includes a manual describing the storyline and dial settings connected with each of the 50 mysteries, and each solution contains a paragraph or two explaining why the "crime" occurred. This book was not written for early elementary kids, so I had to paraphrase for the mystery/solution to make sense to them.

What appealed most to my kids was the way the game plays physically. You get several sturdy cardboard folding "clip boards" with a picture of the 12 suspects on the left and a slot that holds your clue sheet on the right. You must set up the game by twisting the dials in each of the character's homes to the correct number. To decode the clues on the back of the dials, you use either a mirror (to reflect the writing correctly), a key with holes in it that reveal the correct letters for the location of the criminal, and a red magnifying glass, that you hold over the writing to make the clue pop out. This was really fun for my kids.

I can understand how adults might not like this game, since it really is not that challenging. But I definitely recommend it for any child who fancies himself a spy or a detective. It is excellent for teaching basic reasoning too. My kids have enjoyed this game and have played repeatedly.

When I first got this game in the mail I was delighted since, it has entirely new mysteries to solve. I like all the CLUE games especially, this one in patricular; it has unique game pieces. Overall,I would recommend this product to anyone who loves solving mysteries!