I recently got a vintage 1990s Clue game. (My wife says not to call things from the ‘90s ‘vintage’.) Clue is a game for a minimum of three players, I don’t think my wife is interested in playing it, and I haven’t played it since I was a kid. Is there a good online Clue game for a novice?
(It occurs to me that Clue might be adaptable for message board play, though I imagine it would take a long time to play.)
I don’t know if it’s any good or not, but there is an official Clue app from Hasbro on the Google Play store for $4.99.
I haven’t a Clue (sorry!)
It sucks not having anyone to play with. (And I have other games, too.)
@Johnny_L.A There’s a card game version of Clue called Sleuth. One of the files uploaded to the BoardGameGeek site is called Practice Sleuth. It’s an xlsm (Excel file with macros). You can select the number of other players to play against. They play randomly, but it’s a bit of fun for practice–thus the name.
This is purportedly a DOS game version of Sleuth. the downloadable file (part of a zipped package) won’t run on my computer, nor the game run online for me. You may have better luck than I.
Funky Potato has this Clue game online.
BoardGameGeek has a good number of Clue/Sleuth variants listed. If you check the files section for each one, you can look for downloadable or online programs.
So far, the one I’ve decided is closest to Sleuth (the card game clone of Clue/Cluedo) is on Lefun.fun. You can join as a guest then play against real people or bots.
Regarding your idea of messageboard play. I think you would need a referee in addition to the other players. The referee would assign the cards, letting each player know in private which cards they’ve received and, of course, the referee would be holding the killer/location/weapon card combo solution. The referee or the messageboard would do the dice rolling if required. The referee would be quite busy in this given that they would need to announce publicly that certain players showed a specific number of cards and also would have to tell the asking player in a PM which players showed the asking player which cards.
I just found this one, also. It’s a logic puzzle, changed daily.