Cluedo encircle the outer perimeter which correspond to each player's suspect token. Each character starts at the corresponding coloured space. † ‡ "denote secret passages to opposite corner" At the beginning of play, three cards—one suspect, one room, and one weapon—are chosen at random and put into a special envelope, so that no one can see them. These cards represent the facts of the case. The remainder of the cards are distributed among the players. Players are instructed to assume the token/suspect nearest them. In older versions, play begins with Miss Scarlett and proceeds clockwise. In modern versions, all players roll
Cluedo updated by the game's initial release and remain essentially unchanged in the standard Classic Detective Game editions of the game. The game consists of a board which shows the rooms, corridors and secret-passages of an English country house called "Tudor Mansion" (named "Tudor Close", "Tudor Hall", "Boddy Manor" or "Boddy Mansion" in some editions) in Hampshire, England in 1926. The game box also includes several coloured playing pieces to represent characters, miniature murder weapon props, one or two six-sided dice, three sets of cards (describing the aforementioned rooms, characters or weapons), "Solution Cards" envelope to contain one card from each