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
Orient Express (board game) Orient Express (board game) Orient Express is a crime fiction board game published by Jumbo and Just Games. The game is based on the book "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie. The game was designed by Jeff Smets and released in 1985. The game contains 10 different murder cases, each of which can be played only once. Five new plots were released in 1987. The game is set on the train Orient Express, going from Paris to Istanbul. The players сhoose one case among the 10 possible cases. On each case a murder has been committed by one