Original clue game characters

He blackmailed the six guests of Hill House and his butler Wadsworth 's wife until he is murdered. Peacock respectively. Boddy while the person Plum killed was his butler. Boddy plans to continue blackmailing the guests before he is shot by Mr. Miss Scarlett is a stereotypical femme fatale , typically portrayed as young, cunning, and attractive.

Known as " Miss Scarlet " in North America between and , she rolls first in the game. In the film , she is portrayed by Lesley Ann Warren and is depicted as a sassy Washington DC madame who runs an underground brothel. In the first of three endings, or Ending A, she orders Mr. Boddy's maid Yvette to murder her employer and the cook before murdering her in turn along with a cop she was bribing and a passing motorist and singing telegram girl.

Scarlet is eventually exposed, subdued, and arrested. In the third ending, or Ending C, she only murders the cop before being exposed and arrested.

Colonel Mustard is a stock great white hunter and colonial imperialist who rolls second. He is usually portrayed as a dignified, dapper, and dangerous military man. Originally known as Colonel Yellow , his name was changed before the game's first edition was published.

In Clue Master Detective , his full name is Algernon Mustard and is known to sleep with a revolver under his pillow. In the film, he is portrayed by Martin Mull and is depicted as a war profiteer who sold stolen air force radios on the black market and was later involved in a top secret fusion bomb project.

In Ending C, he kills a passing motorist after recognizing him as his driver from World War II before he is exposed and arrested. White is usually portrayed as a frazzled servant who worked as Mr. Boddy's cook, housekeeper, and nanny to Mr. Boddy's nephew, John. Originally known as Nurse White before her name was changed following the first edition's publication, she rolls third in the game. She has seen many wars go by and has an eye squint from spying in keyholes.

In the film, she is portrayed by Madeline Kahn and is depicted as the widow of a nuclear physicist whose death she is suspected of being behind. In Ending C, she kills Yvette out of jealousy upon discovering she had an affair with her husband before being exposed and arrested. Originally patented as " the Rev Mr Green " in the UK, or as Reverend Green in the American original copy, he is a hypocritical Anglican priest who wavers when the subject is murder. In North America, Mr. Green has taken money-oriented roles from mobster to businessman.

Parker Brothers insisted on the name change, believing that the American public would object to a parson as a murder suspect. In the version, Reverend Green is a former ordained minister in the UK version and John Green is an Evangelical minister who has a reputation for fraud, money laundering, and smuggling.

In the film, Mr. Green is portrayed by Michael McKean and is depicted as a closeted homosexual who is concerned that his secret might cost him his job as a State Department employee. Peacock is a stock grande dame and an elderly yet attractive woman who nearly always maintains her dignity and rolls fifth in the game. In Clue Master Detective , her full name is Henrietta Peacock and is depicted as an elderly ornithologist with a specialty in birds of prey. She wanted Mr. She is usually depicted as being the maid, the only suspect that lives in the mansion.

Professor Plum is the most educated of the Clue board game suspects. His piece is purple. This edit will also create new pages on Giant Bomb for:. Until you earn points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Giant Bomb users. Know that in Hasbro has updated the board game and adapted the characters to modern activities.

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Click here for instructions on how to enable JavaScript in your browser. Please enter your comment! Please enter your name here. You have entered an incorrect email address! Editor Picks. Courtney Pococh - October 20, Courtney Pococh - May 15, Courtney Pococh - October 18, The game allowed for you to play of up to eight remaining characters, providing for nine suspects in total. Originally there were eleven rooms, including the eliminated gun room and cellar.

In addition, there were nine weapons including the axe, the bomb, the syringe, the poison, the walking stick, and the fireplace poker. Some of these unused weapons and characters would appear in later spin-off versions of the booty. Some game-play aspects were different as well. Notably, the remaining playing cards were distributed into the rooms to be retrieved, rather than dealt directly to the players.

Players also had to land on another player in order to make suggestions about that player's character through the use of special counter-tokens, and once exhausted, a player could no longer make suggestions.

There were other minor differences, all of which would be updated by the game's initial release and remain essentially unchanged in the standard classic editions of the game. The game's current equipment consists of a board which shows the rooms, corridors and secret passages of an English country house called Boddy Mansion, although previously named variously as Tudor Close or Tudor Hall, and in some editions Tudor Manor or Tudor Mansion.

The game box also includes several colored playing pieces to represent characters, miniature murder weapon props, one or two six-sided dice, three sets of cards, each set describing the aforementioned rooms, characters and weapons, Solution Cards envelope to contain one card from each set of cards, and a Detective's Notes pad on which are printed lists of rooms, weapons and characters, so players can keep detailed notes during the game.