Clue: Purpose of the weapon tokens
David Chesler
never played it as a kid, going from Trouble and Sorry
to Monopoly to Risk to Chess (and Bughouse) to Melee
to Fictionary.)
What is the purpose of the physical tokens representing
the weapons? It seems that they could be dispensed with
all together (that is, not replaced when they are inevitably
lost :-) ) without changing the game in any way.
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- David Chesler <che...@post.harvard.edu>
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Ray Mulford
> My kids received a Clue game as a present. (Somehow I
> never played it as a kid, going from Trouble and Sorry
> to Monopoly to Risk to Chess (and Bughouse) to Melee
> to Fictionary.)
>
> What is the purpose of the physical tokens representing
> the weapons? It seems that they could be dispensed with
> all together (that is, not replaced when they are inevitably
> lost :-) ) without changing the game in any way.
It is impossible to jab your kid sister in the forearm without the Clue
knife. You can use the Clue pencils but the lead under her skin always
triples the amount of trouble you get in.
Boyd Bottorff
> the weapons? It seems that they could be dispensed with
> all together (that is, not replaced when they are inevitably
> lost :-) ) without changing the game in any way.
Honestly? It's just tradition. Probably once upon a time, it was
something to impress people with having more "stuff" in the box than
just six pawns, a board and dice, and pads.
Michael Ward
news:1104181815.1...@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> My kids received a Clue game as a present.
>
> the weapons? It seems that they could be dispensed with
> all together (that is, not replaced when they are inevitably
> lost :-) ) without changing the game in any way.
> --
> - David Chesler <che...@post.harvard.edu>
I see them as a reminder of what weapons people have been calling to which
rooms. If you see 4 out of 6 weapons piled up in the kitchen, then its a
fair bet a couple of people think the murder took place in the kitchen and
they're trying to figure out which weapon was used. If the game is 2/3 over
and the rope is still in the library where it began, its probably not the
murder weapon. Or you could look at it the opposite way. Somehow everyone
knows the murder weapon is the rope, so no one has bothered to call it (to a
different room).
What always bugged me was the card said revolver, but the metal pistol in my
set was a .45 automatic. I guess they used it because it was relatively flat
and therefore probably easier to make.
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Michael Ward
Fort Worth, Texas
Miss Kimberly
: > What is the purpose of the physical tokens representing
When I was growing up, I never had a brand new Clue set, only the one that
my mom had when she was young, which was missing most of the weapon
tokens. So we always played without them, never realizing they were
supposed to be part of the game. When I played at a friend's house and saw
them using the tokens, I was confused about what the point was, and
thought it was silly. So yeah, I think using the weapons on other players
is probably the best use for them :)
Kimberly
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David Chesler
pistol in my
> set was a .45 automatic. I guess they used it because it was
relatively flat
> and therefore probably easier to make.
Delay in following up because as expected, the kids lost the pieces,
but the revolver surfaced yesterday, being used just as Ray explained,
so I can answer, in the current version, the metal token for the gun
is a pepperbox revolver.
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- David Chesler <che...@post.harvard.edu>
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