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
The Emerald Tablet (board game) superior. If you want a game that can show what magic was like under the tutelage of Albertus Magnus or with the Key of Solomon, this is your game. If that's not what you want, stay well away." The Emerald Tablet (board game) The Emerald Tablet is a 1977 board game published by Creative Wargames Workshop. "The Emerald Tablet" is a set of fantasy miniatures rules on selecting a building virtually any army from before the Thirty Years War and detailed battle magic rules. Glenn Williams reviewed "The Emerald Tablet" in "The Space Gamer" No. 37. Williams commented that "By