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
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