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
Mystery of the Abbey Mystery of the Abbey Mystery of the Abbey is a board game designed by Bruno Faidutti, illustrated by Julien Delval, Emanuel Roudier and Cyrille Daujean as graphic designer. Originally published in French by MultiSim in 1998 under the name "Meurtre à l'Abbaye" (Murder at the Abbey), Faidutti's game was republished as "Mystery of the Abbey" by Days of Wonder with new graphic design in 2003. In "Mystery of the Abbey", each player plays the role of a monk seeking to solve a murder in an abbey along the lines of "The Name of the Rose". The game is similar to