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
Anthony Pratt (businessman) Anthony Pratt (businessman) Anthony Joseph Pratt (born 11 April 1960 in Melbourne, Victoria), an Australian businessman and billionaire, is the Executive Chairman of Visy Industries and Pratt Industries in America, which is the world’s largest privately owned packaging and paper company. According to the "Financial Review" Rich List, Pratt and his family have a net worth of 12.90 billion. "Forbes" assessed Pratt's net worth in 2016 at 4.2 billion; listing his sisters' wealth independently. Pratt is the son of the late Richard Pratt, a former manufacturing magnate and former president of the Carlton Football Club, and Jeanne Pratt , a