Cluedo game

Who done it?

Ancient murder at Woodchester Mansion

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The investigation you led in the countryside has made you quite famous.As you were shining in the office,your boss decides to trust you with one of the most obscure events: a hundred years old corpse has been found.

Your mission, if you accept it, is: - to explore the different rooms of the mansion. - to look for pieces of evidence.- to discover where the murder took place.- to identify the weapon of the crime.- to discover the identity of the murderer.

According to the forensic, the body is that of a young girl who was murdered in the second half of the nineteeth century. Unfortunately, it was impossible to be more specific.

The suspects

William Leigh

Caroline Leigh

Earl of Ducie

Cardinal Vaughan

Mr White

Miss Plum

One of these six suspects is the murderer. You must find out who.

The second owner of the house. He bought it in 1845 and is responsible for the shape the mansion has today.

Wife of William Leigh

First owner of the mansion. Legend holds that when he threw a lavish dinner to celebrate his succession to the Earldom in 1840, he was somewhat taken aback when his father’s ghost interrupted the festivities by occupying the seat that he was intending to sit in at the head of the table. It gave him such a fright that he left the place never to return.

He was set to visit the mansion in 1894. The drawing room was completed for this special occasion.

He was the best cook of Gloucestershire county.

a faithfull maid who worked at the mansion.

The weapons

One of these is the murder weapon. You must find out which.

rope

candlestick

knife

poison

dagger

hammer

Where will you find these questions? You'll find them in the rooms of the mansion, clicking "board" at the bottom. When you answer all the questions and you see the cards hiding in that room, don't forget to take note of the cards you found. Here is a grid to help you: The game counts 6 characters, 6 weapons and 9 rooms; completing the game you'll discover 5 characters, 5 weapons and 8 rooms: the remaining character will be the murderer, the weapon you won't find will be the one used for the homicide and the unseen room will be the murder scene. Once you have found the solution, raise your hand to check your answer. Have fun!

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Clicking on the button "board", you'll find all the mansion's rooms. Inside the rooms, the cards are hidden and will be revealed if you are able to answer correctly every question. Like the original board game, there's a card for every character, weapon and room of the mansion.

Every card that you discover hasn't been involved in the murder: all the characters that you'll find are innocent, all the weapons that you'll see are "clean" (they haven't been used for the homicide) and the rooms (the ones on the cards, not the ones that you visit!) aren't the murder scene. The cards with innocent characters, clean weapons and rooms that aren't the murder scene are hiding and will be revealed when you'll be able to answer correctly a bunch of questions.

Click on the room you want to visit.

To discover the first card, click here:

To discover the second card, click here:

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You just found a very kitchen knife. The cook might have forgotten it here...

Walking in the cellar you discover an ancient document which tells you that the access to the drawing room was only opened when people came to visit. So, the drawing room must not be the place you are looking for.

Did you really think this could work?

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You discover a flask of poison. Someone might have had criminal ideas... Though, it is still here and sealed. So, it can't be the weapon.

You found a note indicating that no one could access the chapel until it was finished. But the construction of the chapel never reached an end.

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After having sold his mansion, in 1854, the Earl of Ducie never came back there. So he can't have killed the little girl.

The basement was really dim back in the day. So, the little girl could not have come there.

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William Leigh was a devout Catholic. He could not have forgotten the sacred order "Thou Shall Not Kill" from the Old Testament.

In the chapel, you found a hammer covered with dust. A stonemason may have left it there.

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In the hall, on a sign, you can read that the library was the only property of William Leigh who had the only key to open it and was buried with it when he died. So, the library cannot be where the crime took place.

While walking through the hall, you overhear a guide telling some visitor that the cook would never let anyone enter his kitchen. So, the kitchen cannot be the murder scene.

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To find the next card, select the right conclusion for the following supposition:

The construction of Woodchester mansion was never completed. So the Leigh family .....

... must have lived in the mansion.

... might not have lived in the mansion.

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... may not lived in the mansion.

... cannot have lived in the mansion.

You will have to try this again....

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And if they have never fully lived in the house, they must not have hired a maid for the mansion ...So, the card you found is:

Miss Plum

Back

a faithfull maid who worked at the mansion.

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The cook was very rarely at the mansion and did not like to see anyone. The only thing that he loved was cooking. He was not able to do anything else. So, unless he cooked the little girl... But the bones would not have been found then. He surely would have found a way to use them...

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The card you are looking for stands in the middle of the picture of the library.

To find the next card, select the right conclusion for the following supposition:

Looking at the books, in the library, you discover that Caroline Leigh was very fond of children. So she .....

... have cannot the little girl killed.

... cannot have killed the little girl.

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... cannot killed the little girl.

... cannot be killed the little girl.

You will have to try this again....

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So, the card you found is:

Caroline Leigh

Back

Wife of William Leigh

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On the floor you found ... a rope ? What is it doing there? Well, at least there is no blood on it.... So it is not the weapon we are looking for....