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 Neil Smith Anthony Neil Smith Anthony Neil Smith is a mystery/crime fiction writer who has had over thirty of his short stories published in literary magazines and crime writing zines, and has also published numerous novels. He is co-creator of the well-received online noir journal "Plots with Guns". He was also an associate editor with the highly regarded literary magazine "Mississippi Review", having put together several special issues featuring crime fiction for the online edition. He is Chair of the English, Philosophy, Spanish & Humanities Department at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall, MN. As Smith was born and raised on the