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I was introduced to Cluedo during my high school years by my parents. My father had purchased the game in the mid 60s, and it had become a smash hit with our family back then. Over the years, the games were tucked away until one day we decided to dust it off. Cluedo is a very exciting and educational game. Players take turns as detectives trying to solve a murder mystery by eliminating improbable clues. Fast forward to January 2017, I had been collaborating with a board gamer friend of ours, Shradha Jain, who runs Studio Clock Works in Ahmedabad. Shradha was excited at the prospect of playing Cluedo with us. One night, we got a round of Cluedo going.
Our Cluedo board is over 50 years old! The plastic player tokens and weapon tokens survived very well. Not so much the player cards. My parents had tried to fix the old and brittle cards by gluing regular playing cards on the back of the old Cluedo cards. However, a point came where the old cards simply became worn and brittle. Corners started chipping off and cracks appearing across the cards’ middle.
At one point we contemplated buying a new Cluedo game set, but we simply did NOT like the new design. The classic board and cards were simply too good to let go. We decided to restore the game, preserving the classic look and feel that we have grown to love.
Shradha undertook the task of printing new cards for us. I found some old Cluedo card images online and generated new card templates in Photoshop. After a lot of pixel pushing, I had a set of card images ready. Shradha came back after a week with a set of beautifully printed Cluedo cards! And she even printed an M C Escher pattern on the card backs!
The Game Is Afoot!
The Automatic Cluedo Machine
While Shradha was working on printing new Cluedo cards for us, I started thinking about the fundamental logic and strategies that Cluedo is based upon. Why can’t we write a program that plays Cluedo just as a regular player? How can we make the program play intelligently and efficiently? Nowadays one might simply respond back with the buzz words of the decade - “Machine Learning” and “AI” - but that’s overkill. We don’t need a neural network to make a computer play Cluedo.
The Mathematics behind Cluedo
Playing Cluedo involves two core mathematical concepts. Probability and Boolean Logic. Players have to uncover the person who committed the murder, the room in which the murder took place and the weapon used. Three cards are hidden under the board and the rest are distributed as clues to each player. During the course of the game, players show clues to one another, eliminating the cards from the set of murder suspects. When we play Cluedo, we are using probability and Boolean logic intuitively. If player X has Miss Scarlett, then she is not the murderer. If player Y showed a card to player Z, and if I have the Revolver card, then there’s a 50% chance that Y showed a room card and a 50% chance that Y showed a person card to Z.
I started thinking about an approach to programmatically play Cluedo. Over a few nights, I implemented a probability table that shows the probability of each card as held by every player. As the game progresses, observed cards are eliminated from the probability table and the list of possible murder combinations shrinks. I also assigned a system of numeric weights based on the probability to determine what the computer’s query should be during its turn.
Here is how the Automatic Cluedo Machine looks like:
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For a quick test, cut and paste the commands from the following sample games data:
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Cluedo is a classic murder-mystery board game that’s been around since 1949, where the aim is to uncover clues that lead to a murderer, with the player who finds the right room, the killer and the weapon, winning the round.
The rights to a Cluedo-based pokie have been obtained by IGT and they have made the most of ownership by releasing a series of games, culminating in the Who Won It? version reviewed here.
Cluedo – Who Won It? has all the action from the original pokie and updates the graphics, symbols and features to bring it right up to date, although it’s still set in an old English manor house and still has the same cast of shifty characters, one of whom has dispatched Dr Black in a most grisly way.
Playing Cluedo – Who Won It?
Playable from just 0.01 to 75.00 per spin, this is a 5-reel game that has symbols over 3 rows and 15 paylines across it. To activate all lines, players will need to wager a minimum of 0.15, although even if just a line or 2 is active they will still qualify for scatter wins, although not entry to the bonus round.
Behind the reels is a picture of the mansion house where the dastardly deed has taken place and although it’s mostly hidden, it still sets the scene up quite effectively.
Anyone who has played the board game will recognise the symbols, with the playing card icons 9, 10, J, Q, K, and A featuring the potential murder weapons like the lead pipe, candlestick, revolver and rope across them. The higher value symbols are made up of the suspects including Professor Plum, Mrs. White, Reverend Green and the seductive Miss Scarlett.
Winning lines are formed by 3, 4 or 5 of the same symbol stopping in an unbroken line, across an active payline running form the left side, although scatter wins occur in any positions.
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Cluedo – Who Won It? has a couple of bonus symbols that will help players to get more frequent wins and open up the extra features. A newspaper is a wild symbol, cleverly given the headline Wild! splashed across it’s page. This will act as all other symbols, with the exception of the Scatter and Bonus, to help create winning combinations, or extend winning lines of 3 or 4 matching symbols into more valuable lines of 4 or 5.
Landing 5 wilds across a line will also pay out 12,500x the line bet, although unusually, there’s nothing for getting 3 or 4 across a line.
Another slightly unusual feature is the scatter symbol, as unlike in most pokies, it won’t trigger any bonus rounds. But all will be forgiven, because just 1 scatter anywhere on the reels will pay 2x the line bet, while 2, 3, 4 or 5 will be worth 5x, 75x, 500x or 12,500x respectively.
The Bonus symbol is a magnifying glass over the game title and if any 3 or more land on an active payline, this opens up the main feature which plays out on a different screen. There’s a notebook that shows the murder weapons, a file that shows the suspects, and a clipboard covered with images of the different rooms where the murder may have taken place.
A magnifying glass moves over each in turn, revealing a prize amount, which players can either accept, which ends the round, or decline and hope that a better prize is revealed next. The third option will need to be accepted though, and while it’s a risk that it may be a smaller amount, once players have triggered the bonus game they are guaranteed a win of some sort.
The Verdict
IGT have skilfully managed to bring the atmosphere of Cluedo to a pokie game, and while it can’t fully replicate how the board game works, they have made a pretty good job of including many of the elements that make it so popular.
With the lower value symbols all featuring a murder weapon and the higher value ones consisting of the characters, anyone who has played Cluedo will immediately recognise much of what is presented before them.
But even the best-looking pokies wouldn’t keep people engaged for long without some good gameplay and features, so Cluedo – Who Done It? comes complete with some unconventional, although unspectacular, bonuses, notably the one where the magnifying glass uncovers instant wins.
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There’s no free spins game however, which many players will miss, but at least the bonus game here guarantees a win, where most free spin bonus rounds don’t.
Fans of the board game should certainly try this pokie out, while anyone who hasn’t played the original game before may wonder what all the fuss is about.