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 Best Science Fiction Stories: 1950 The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1950 The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1950 is a 1950 anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty. An abridged edition was published in the UK by Grayson in 1951 under the title "The Best Science Fiction Stories". The stories had originally appeared in 1949 in the magazines "Astounding", "The Saturday Evening Post", "Fantasy and Science Fiction", "Fantastic Adventures", "Maclean’s", "Thrilling Wonder Stories", "Blue Book" and "Startling Stories". The anthology was later combined with the and reissued as "Science Fiction Omnibus". P. Schuyler Miller received the anthology favorably,