Over in the NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 3) thread, there’s a bit of a hijack related to Clue(do). I figure, “What the hey? Let’s see what the Teeming Millions can come up with for various themed editions of the classic detective game!”
If you wish to contribute, please mention all of the following:
Let’s number our fan creations since, given the creative nature of the TM, no doubt some will make more than one contribution. Numbering them makes it easier to make comments on a previous poster’s creation.
Theme (such as on what show you grabbed the particular elements from)
~If the theme is too broad (such as Star Trek), be sure to include a more detailed description (such as Star Trek: Lower Decks).
Victim (Mister Boddy has not always been Clue(do)'s victim, so feel free here.)
Suspects (This should be a minimum of 7, but I think 10 tops out on playability, IMHO.)
Weapons (I don’t think there’s a rule requiring the same number of weapons as suspects, but again, let’s go with the Goldilocks Rules: make it “just right”. )
Locations (Let’s stick with 9 rooms, halls, and other passages (such as elevators on a starship or the original game’s secret passages)
Suspects:
Beavis
Butt-Head
Daria
Stewart
Buzzcut
Van Driessen
Todd
Tom Anderson
Lolita and Tanqueray (always together)
Weapons:
Roll of TP
Barbell
Nachos
Chicken Nugget
Baseball Bat
Chainsaw
Spray Paint
Locations:
Living Room
Van Driessen’s Classroom
Open Field
GWAR Concert
Maxi-Mart
Gym
Mr. Anderson’s Shed
Stewart’s Kitchen
Burger World
No secret passages, and lets face it these two would get lost in them anyway.
Victim: Marie Schrader (because you know you wanted to, amirite?)
Suspects:
Walter White
Skyler White
Jesse Pinkman
Hank Schrader
Saul Goodman
Gustavo Fring
Mike Ehrmantraut
Lydia Rodarte-Quayle
Marco and Leonel Salamanca
Todd Alquist
Locations:
White residence
Schrader residence
Lavandería Brillante
Los Pollos Hermanos
Don Eladio’s ranch
The Krystal Ship RV
Saul Goodman’s office
A1A Car Wash
Beneke Industries
Suspects:
Barney
Aunt Bee
Gomer and Goober (as a team)
Floyd
Helen
That suspicious stranger who keeps showing up and looks just like a young Jack Nicholson
Otis
Ernest T. Bass
Briscoe Darling
Weapon:
Shotgun
Rifle
Revolver
Shiv made from a bedspring
Straight razor
Poisoned food
Goat stuffed with dynamite
Still explosion
Location:
At his desk in the Sheriff’s office
In a cell in the Sheriff’s office
On his front porch
In his kitchen
Found dead in his patrol car
Floyd’s Barber Shop
Wally’s Filling Station and Garage
The fishin’ hole
Mount Pilot
Re: #1 & #2: I can’t really say anything about those because I haven’t watched the shows on which they’re based.
Re: #3 Using the transporter room as a means to go to any other room on the Enterprise is genius!
Re: #4 I’d go with Aunt Bee as the victim. I couldn’t stand the character or the actress who portrayed her. But your locations really do require Cousin Andy to be the corpus delecti.
Suspects:
Skipper
Thurston Howell
Mrs Howell
Professor
Mary Anne
Ginger Grant
Rotating Guest Star
Weapons
Skipper’s Hat
Gold-Laden Suitcase
Pointed Parasol
Pocket-sized nuclear explosive made out of two coconuts and a palm frond
Poisoned coconut cream pie
Sexual wiles
Gun
Locations
Skipper’s hut
Howell’s hut
Girl’s hut
Professor’s hut
Lagoon
Spider Cave
Beach
Wrecked Minnow
2nd Hole of Howell Golf Course
I was going to do a Phantom Menace -based game and have Jar Jar Binks as the victim, but then realised the list of suspects would be impracticably large, so I’ve scrapped that idea.
Suspects:
Det. Logan
Sgt. Greevey
Executive ADA Stone
ADA Robinette
DA Schiff
Det. Briscoe
Lt. Van Buren
Legal Aid Atty. Green
Weapons:
Gun
Knife
Fists
Baseball bat
Narcotic in IV drip
Fall from rooftop
Caprice Classic
Death by CHUNG-chung
Locations:
Local downscale tavern
Local upscale tavern
Emergency room
Empty parking garage
Central Park
Italian restaurant
Crowded subway
Grade school basketball court
Catholic confessional
Greevey, Stone, and Robinette were all original cast members, but I don’t think they’re the most iconic characters from the show’s run. I would replace them with Det. Green, EADA McCoy, and ADA Kincaid. Replace Shambala Green with Dr. Rodgers. And one of the weapons has to be a javelin.
A kar’takin wouldn’t be seen in Star Trek until the Jem’Hadar used it on Deep Space Nine. The nearest kar’takin is 50,000 light years away in the 23rd century.
How about a qutluch instead? The ceremonial blade of a Klingon assassin?
Suspects:
Leonard Hofstadter
Penny
Sheldon Cooper
Amy Farrah Fowler
Howard Wolowitz
Bernadette Rostenkowski
Rajesh Koothrappali
Stuart Bloom
Weapons:
Laptop computer
Defective exploding smartphone
Sharpened CD-ROM disc
Poisoned wine
Batman figurine
Experimental drug
Chopsticks
Laser beam
Locations:
Leonard and Sheldon’s living room
Penny’s apartment
Apartment building lobby
Howard’s bedroom
University cafeteria
Leonard’s lab
Amy’s lab
Comic book store
Cheesecake Factory
We’d need secret passages between some of these locations, but I think it would work.
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But your locations really do require Cousin Andy to be the corpus delecti.