Cluedo Passport to Murder Super Challenge edition
2000
Waddingtons Hasbro
 
First produced
2000
Players
2 to 6
Age(s)
8+
             
 

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The Trans Continental Express has just pulled into Istanbul Station. Dr. Black has been found murdered and the hunt is on to discover where the crime took place. Was it on the train or in the station? What was the murder weapon and just who committed the crime?
Using the clues throughout the train and the railway station, be first to solve the case and discover who murdered Dr. Black, where and with what weapon. These clues take the form of mysterious codes concealed under cases. The picture codes provide clues to each possible suspect, weapon and scene of the crime. By gathering clues and using deduction, see if you can crack the code and solve the puzzling mystery of Dr. Black's demise. Well designed card holders conceal the vital cards. Throughout the game, players have the opportunity of sliding open one or more of the four windows on these card holders to reveal part of the unique code every card carries.

Three new suspects join the ranks; Miss Peach, Mr. Brown, and Earl Grey. So there are now 9 suspects. The characters appear as beautifully styled playing pieces. Three extra weapons also thicken the plot; a blunderbuss, poison or an axe.

The gameplay has also subtly changed. Players must land on a clue case which reveals a coded picture. All players hold their own passport which includes all these codes and their corresponding instructions. This may allow that player to look at any window in the card holders, take a spare card (thus eliminating a room, a suspect or a weapon) or to seek out a weapon or a station attendant to obtain a special clue card.

To help players collate the information they gather, each player detective has a notebook sheet on which they work out the classic Cluedo question... Whodunnit, where and with what?

  Contents Notes
 

1 x playing board

9 x character pieces;

- Colonel Mustard, Professor Plum, Rev. Green, Mrs. Peacock, Miss Scarlett, Mrs White, Miss Peach, Mr. Brown, and Earl Grey.

9 x weapon pieces;

- dagger, candlestick, revolver, rope, lead piping, spanner, blunderbuss, axe and poison

4 x station attendants on plastic stands

30 x clue cases

3 x murder card holders

6 x passports

18 x clue cards

9 x character cards

9 x weapon cards

9 x room cards

7 x weapon stands

2 x dice

1 x rules booklet

Detective notebook sheets

 

The game is particularly rare as only one print run was released in the year 2000 and is now discontinued.

It is an advanced version of the well known Cluedo game with some differences.

Three new suspects join the ranks; Miss Peach, Mr. Brown, and Earl Grey. The characters appear as beautifully styled playing pieces. Three extra weapons also thicken the plot; a blunderbuss, poison or an axe.

The room are; Ticket Office, Left Luggage, Barber's Shop, Lost Property, Kiosk, Waiting Room, Dining Car, Engine Room and Cocktail Lounge.

Clue cases are distributed around the board and when landed on, provide clues to help solve the crime, rather than relying on other players to provide evidence against your guessing the weapon, location and murderer when entering any one of the 9 rooms. Clue cases may also give instructions to all players, as well as, or instead of giving clues to the player who landed on them.

This is a more exciting and detailed game than standard Cluedo, particularly as the action has switched to Istanbul Railway Station rather than being limited to Tudor Close.

 

Cluedo remains a classic murder mystery board game, still in production and selling worldwide, since the 1940s. This Passport to Murder Super Challenge edition is a fitting tribute and expansion of play.

This is particularly rare as only one print run was released in the year 2000 and is now discontinued.