Anthony E. Pratt Birmingham that manufactured components for tanks. Working on a drilling machine, he found the work tedious, but it gave him time to think, including about the ideas behind Cluedo. It was during the Second World War that Pratt had the idea for a murder mystery board game. The idea for Cluedo came from his days spent playing musical concerts in country hotels where part of the evening's entertainment would have been murder mystery games. These would involve both actors and hotel guests playing the characters in a plot which involved the murder of one or more of the guests. The
Charles E. Pratt in New York City in 1902 of Bright's disease. 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