Anthony E. Pratt manufacture it. It was Waddingtons who renamed the game Cluedo (a combination of "Clue" and ""Ludo"", a Latin word meaning "I play"). But material shortages in post-war Britain meant the game did not go into production until 1949. Pratt was granted patent GB586817 'Improvements in Board Games' on 1 April 1947. After the end of the Second World War Pratt entered the British Civil Service working for the Ministry of Labour helping demobbed servicemen and women to return to peacetime work. In 1953, four years after Cluedo first went on sale, Waddingtons told Pratt that the game was not selling
Charles E. Pratt Charles E. Pratt Charles E. Pratt (1841 – August 11, 1902) was an American composer of popular music in the 1860s through 1890s, musician, and band leader. In 1873, with lyricist Samuel N. Mitchell, he published "Put My Little Shoes Away", which has endured as a popular song among bluegrass performers. In 1881, under the duo of pseudonyms H.J. Fulmer and J.T. Wood, Pratt published the popular "Bring Back My Bonnie To Me" (aka My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean), which is said to be an adaptation of a traditional Scottish folk song. Theodore Raph in his 1964 book "American