One of the best formats for suggesting games. Not a straight up review as such, but a clever way of putting games on people's radar, especially newbies. And we need more of those. Many more.
I really liked his video explaining how games have evolved and the appeal of Eurogames or why that style usually works. He said it's no fun for a person to keep playing a game for another hour or so with no chance of winning; or to be eliminated and have to wait for the rest to finish. It's not much fun for a game to go on seemingly indefinitely; there needs to be a time or turn limit. And so on.
Really love the video, but extremely surprised that awkward guests is not here. That game is literally designed to be a Clue killer xD. The theme and the movement around the house is all straight up the same but better
I always loved Cluedo as a kid but I could never get enough people to play it, and now I realise my lack of playing it is probably why I still have fond memories of it. Great alternatives suggested here, great video. 👍🏼
Love that you threw Outfoxed on here. My daughter was obsessed after her first play. My daughter’s grandma has Clue Jr. at her house. I opened it up, looked at the manual, and put it back where it came from. Impossible for my daughter to play and way too dry and boring.
Love Mysterium and have played it many, many times. But in my opinion, the best Cluedo replacement, hands down, is Awkward Guests. I'd recommend you give it a go as it adds quite a bit more to the basic idea and is much more enjoyable.
After playing Kronologic mentioned in the video recently, I'd say this game kills off Awkward Guests for me. AG is great, but a bit messy. Kronologic is cleaner and easier to teach, and just a bit more fun. Give it a go!
The best alternative for the Clue is Awkward Guests: The Walton Case. I dont want to translate ghost player mumbling. Just to crack the case. And Awkward Guests is the best. Of course on hardest difficulty and with app.
I share this deep disatisfaction with Clue, but my Mom loves classic Clue. As a compromise, we play Clue FX--an electronic "talking" version of the board game that fixes most of the problems with Clue without losing its core identity. It has the lush, gorgeous artwork of Mysterium and the public clues of Paris 1920. The suspects are completely different from the players' characters, and there is no wasted time moving from location to location. 😊
Back to basics, I love it. The kids game suggestion was really good and you should do more or even dedicated videos. Regarding your content, you are a good comedian and using that to show how playing a game feels is a thing that many boardgame channels cannot do as well. They can describe as much as they want but showing through acting is a thing that you do way better. Do not feel bad if sometimes videos do not perform as you expect. You have a good niche (less heavy games) and pick different games. I am sure that getting bigger audiences is a question of time.
Your ability to capture the essence of game and why it's great in such a concise way is unparalleled. I always come away from your videos wanting to guy ALL of them.
I think I remember hearing somewhere the original lore for clue explaining how one of the players is the killer is that if that person wins, it signifies them destroying the evidence and escaping.
We got a copy of Cludo a decade ago. It was so boring that after a single we read through all the rules and were racking our brains trying to work out if there was a mechanic or rule that we'd missed. I remember it being fun as a kid and also having genuine nightmares about the Colonel Mustard card.
Mystery Express is an exceptional Advanced Clue game. The removal of movement, plus the presence of 2 cards of each type (so you are trying to find the cards in each category that have only 1 cards out) really step things up several notches. I am surprised it didn’t make a “Clue replacement” list!
I found that Mysterium had a similar logic problem to Cluedo, it might be a thing between different versions, but when I played it, everyone solved their own murder and had to decide which was the real murder at the end. It just didn't make sense. For a young audience, I reckon Small Detectives is pretty good, but sadly out of print. It's a similar mechanic to Cluedo in that you're uncovering suspects, and it has a different movement rule that means most times you can discover something, but you can also mess with opponents a bit
Our group loves the Sid Sackson classic, Sleuth. It checks the deduction box without falling into the mistakes you mention. Also benefits from being easy to teach and difficult to master.
Love your channel. It occurred to me during your Outfoxed review that, as a relatively new parent whose kid is just starting to get into board games, if you made a 'Top 10 Board Games to play with your Kid" (Maybe even a couple, one for toddlers, and one for ~6-13 years old), I'd probably use your affiliate links for every single game I didn't already own. (And if you already have a video like this, please point me to it!)
I really like Mystery of the Abbey. It’s older but it being clergypersons in a monastery is nice and you get to ask questions but the recipient can choose to take a vow of silence.
Glad you covered Outfoxed. My friend who designs board games (for adults) couldn’t recommend Outfoxed more for kids. Can’t wait until my kids are old enough for it.
That's like Mr Bean taking on Mike Tyson in a boxing match.Scrabble is a near perfect boardgame. There's a reason why it's sold hundreds of millions across the whole world
Probably my favorite game that I bring to meetings every time is _"P.I."_ which plays 2-5 (but 2 is not fun). You try to get the best score by solving 3 cases, each time guessing the suspect, crime and hideout cards held by the person on your right. You mainly pick from one of nine face-up cards of the 14 locations, 12 suspects and 10 crimes. The person on your right then tells you whether you guessed correctly (you get a disc), guessed adjacent to the card (you get a cube) or are cold (you keep the card in front of you). If none of the nine cards will help you, then you can use one of your five private investigators to go to a location and get cubes and discs for all three cards, but not learning which is which. They can only be used once over the three cases and are the tie-breaker. Once you think you've figured it out, you can take a turn to make the accusation. If you try to solve a case and fail, you take a -2 penalty but can keep playing. If you solve your case first you get 7 points (so maximum for three cases is 21). If you solve your case on the same turn you also get 7. The next time someone solves their case they will get 5 (then 3, then 1). Normally, the last person doesn't get to solve their case, but that wasn't fun, so we use the house rule that they get 1 or 2 more turns, depending on their order, to either get the same points (solving on the same turn), or 2 less. The suspects and crimes on the board are randomly placed, so we nearly always shuffle them and place them in new positions for the next case. The other drawback for this game is the fonts and colors on the board can make it difficult to see the locations, though suspects generally have distinctive colored backgrounds on their cards. *** There were other detective games that I played as a kid, tried to play, or wanted to play: Long before eBay we got _Manhunt_ at a garage sale, but it was missing pieces or instructions so we never played a full game. It has a way for a player to secretly find information like it seems _Kronologic_ does. But it only has 16 scanner cards for cases, so limited like the one shown in this video. We tossed it when we moved. I got to play _Electronic Detective_ as a kid. Basically you go around town to find information and punch it into the computer to see what the result is. I picked up a working device at a thrift store, but it was missing the cards and maybe instructions, so without internet and eBay to get the missing ones, we tossed that one too. Too bad, because it's said to have more cases than you could possibly ever play. Another game that came out in the era of handheld electronic games, was _Stop Thief._ I don't remember playing that or getting that either.
221B Baker Street is my favorite clue like board game. It does use the slow movement of clue but there are 200 cases with full stories and clues to solve. Sometimes you can get it in just a few clues and sometimes you have to visit all of London to find out who the killer is
Thanks John for that entertaining presentation. They are all good alternatives to Cluedo, I would also throw games like Scotland Yard: Sherlock Holmes edition and Whitehall Mystery into the mix. Cluedo was fantastic back in the day when I was a boy, so was Uno, but there are certainly better games out there today.
16:52 - aww, thanks! As someone who has two 5-year olds, it's great that I still look 25. And it's awesome to see Outfoxed! on this list! Although my 5-year olds do still get sad when they don't get their roll on their turn.
My partner and I play Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detectives. It's a grand time full of silly character voices and theory crafting. Definitely recommend it if you're interested !
I have many of your recommended clue alternatives, but I can't bring myself to get rid of clue because it's one of the board games that got me into this hobby =) the memories are too good
The last few times I played it, I tried to take notes of what other cards people might be seeing when asking for information, but it didn't work, I still lost.
When I a kid I was just IMPRESSED with Scotland Yard. Until this day I remember it as a super deep and mysterious game. I’m afraid to go back to it and see that it had the same design problems as clue, I guess haha
Can you do a video on the best games to introduce someone into the genre? We're currently getting into it as a family and striking the balance between complexity and ease of learning is tough! We're big cluedo fans which were using as a jumping off point but we'd like to get into a lot of different games and it's overwhelming!
I absolutely love Paranormal Detectives and have had so much fun as both the detective and the ghost. Though I think my wife prefers being the ghost. And even though I believe the max player count is 6 (1 ghost and 5 detectives), I managed to play the game with 9 people (1 ghost and 4 groups of 2 detectives each) and the game was honestly even better because you have a partner to discuss things with, it makes the game a lot more sociable. One other Clue replacement game I'll mention that wasn't on this list is Tiny Epic Crimes. That one was also a lot of fun and one I recommend!
There is also Inkognito which is a great alternative, secretely finding who your ally is around the table and cooperating in order to achieve a mission
I would vote for Chronicles of Crime - you can also make this more kid friendly with the Redview expansion. Another option is the MicroMacro Crime City series
O melhor jogo que tenho nessa temática é o "convidados indejesados" se não teve oportunidade de conhecer, conheça. E esse é provavelmente o melhor canal de Board games que acompanho.
2 other deduction-style games I can think of for young kids that would be better than Clue(do) are "Ghosted" & "Dinosaur Tea Party". Ghosted is effectively just the investigation process of Clue without the tedium of moving around. Each player was killed and they're trying to figure out of a list of 12 for each, who killed them, with what, and why. Players take turns asking other players questions, with the line of questioning being limited to a dice roll (the game does have a way to alter a turn if a player has solved a category for themselves), and work to cross suspects, motives, and weapons off their board until they figure it out. Not super deep admittedly, but for a 15-30 minute $10 game, it fills its niche well. Dinosaur Tea Party on the other hand, is more of a "Guess Who?" for 4 players. Players get dealt a secret identity and take turns asking each other yes/no questions (Ideally, this is all done while pretending to be as posh and upper class as possible as the game suggests). If a player's identity is guessed, they draw a new identity and the guest is removed from the board. First to 3 correct guesses wins. To me, having the extra tension of needing to either be good or not too revealing with your questions, as otherwise a different player can snipe the solution is what elevates it above the basic Guess Who game.
Thank you for the video and suggestions, and for very entertaining video. I love your acting and jokes and play on words. You do amazing job! And I agree with all your points. I loved Clue game a ton when I was younger/teen. But I have already moved away from it because all of those characteristics/disadvantages...
Thank you for the tips and the reasons to play the alternatives. For me i loved Clue, until i started hating the game when you got banned if you got it wrong. I think i like the Sherlock games most and its alternatives
Clue was my favorite game as a kid. You are 100% correct that it is time to bury it. I enjoy Sherlock and Chronicles of crime. Can't wait to try some of the other recommendations 😊
At a Halloween event we played Mysterium. Me being the ghost, under a white sheet and cut out holes for eyes. Kill Doctor Lucky is also a suggestion as a way better game than Cluedo, but in reverse!
Probably the best board game channel out there tbh
His combination of useful information and hilarious jokes makes him TRULY one of a kind 😊
I don’t even know on the drink this time, i’ll say Mai Tai but I know it’s not right.
Lol, I wish I was taking the time to make a Mai Tai. It was a much less impressive Fanta Zero.
@ Dang it I was going to guess Fanta but I was like he’s much too refined for that 🤪.
Probably? Surely my boi.
One of the best formats for suggesting games. Not a straight up review as such, but a clever way of putting games on people's radar, especially newbies. And we need more of those. Many more.
100%
Much prefer this to a big 20 minute review video on a board game. Love getting a bit of info on multiple games instead.
I love this format, really helps me SELL the games to my family on the WHY they want to play it.
Yes that is always very handy to choose a boardgame to play
I really liked his video explaining how games have evolved and the appeal of Eurogames or why that style usually works. He said it's no fun for a person to keep playing a game for another hour or so with no chance of winning; or to be eliminated and have to wait for the rest to finish. It's not much fun for a game to go on seemingly indefinitely; there needs to be a time or turn limit. And so on.
"The irony is, you're a detective - but you've got no agency."
That was so good it made me shiver
Hard agree. That was a great line.
Really love the video, but extremely surprised that awkward guests is not here. That game is literally designed to be a Clue killer xD. The theme and the movement around the house is all straight up the same but better
You forgot “Tim Curry not included in board game version.”
That's definitely number 7 on the list. What a legend.
So what would the 7th game be??
Do this again. Try 6 Alternative games to Monopoly especially as we are coming up to Christmas
Chinatown
I think he's already done one for Monopoly.
Not similar, but Camel Up has replaced Monopoly in my gatherings
THIS! Monopoly is so much worse than Clue! 😂
Lords of Vegas.
Love you bro. You helped me get into Boardgames
I always loved Cluedo as a kid but I could never get enough people to play it, and now I realise my lack of playing it is probably why I still have fond memories of it. Great alternatives suggested here, great video. 👍🏼
“Good God, man. Enunciate!” 😂😂😂
I laughed out loud at that!
Actualol back to his best! Love the character work Jon! So glad you have your sparkle back buddy! Best board game channel! Thanks pal! ❤️
As far as Biarx games channels go it's a gooden
@ttocsisme what's Biarx mean?
Best supporting Actor goes to ... The Ghost!
Love that you threw Outfoxed on here. My daughter was obsessed after her first play.
My daughter’s grandma has Clue Jr. at her house. I opened it up, looked at the manual, and put it back where it came from. Impossible for my daughter to play and way too dry and boring.
I would also highly recommend The Search for Planet X if you're looking for that pen and paper elimination vibe
Love that we got more character skits! (And games for varying ages)
Outfoxed is my standard recommendation for a kids game. So well done
Love Mysterium and have played it many, many times. But in my opinion, the best Cluedo replacement, hands down, is Awkward Guests. I'd recommend you give it a go as it adds quite a bit more to the basic idea and is much more enjoyable.
After playing Kronologic mentioned in the video recently, I'd say this game kills off Awkward Guests for me. AG is great, but a bit messy. Kronologic is cleaner and easier to teach, and just a bit more fun. Give it a go!
Except Awkward guests has infinite replayability @@photoben
Awkward Guests is on my to get list. They have a print and play you can download for free on their website.
You finally brought back characters 😍 I’ve missed them ☺️
I'm becoming a patron for the quality and creative content alone. This was very entertaining
The best alternative for the Clue is Awkward Guests: The Walton Case. I dont want to translate ghost player mumbling. Just to crack the case. And Awkward Guests is the best. Of course on hardest difficulty and with app.
Great picks! Was surprised not to see Awkward Guests
Cluedo/Clue is dead? I think it was Professor Plum in the Conservatory with the Lead Pipe.
It was Actualol, in the UA-cam, with a video.
@@TorIverWilhelmsen - Damn. I lose.
I share this deep disatisfaction with Clue, but my Mom loves classic Clue. As a compromise, we play Clue FX--an electronic "talking" version of the board game that fixes most of the problems with Clue without losing its core identity. It has the lush, gorgeous artwork of Mysterium and the public clues of Paris 1920. The suspects are completely different from the players' characters, and there is no wasted time moving from location to location. 😊
Love Clue FX. You are totally correct on your point
Shout out to Detective: City of Angels for being based on Hard Boiled detective stories.
"A frayed knot, my dear boy."
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that one got me good! 😂
Jon you're an absolute treasure. This is a wonderful format. Outfoxed is an absolute MVP game, deserves to be mentioned more often 😊
❤️
Back to basics, I love it.
The kids game suggestion was really good and you should do more or even dedicated videos.
Regarding your content, you are a good comedian and using that to show how playing a game feels is a thing that many boardgame channels cannot do as well. They can describe as much as they want but showing through acting is a thing that you do way better.
Do not feel bad if sometimes videos do not perform as you expect. You have a good niche (less heavy games) and pick different games. I am sure that getting bigger audiences is a question of time.
My hubby hates Cluedo, might need to try some of these. Lovely to have you back and the new video format
So glad you're still out here making videos, love the channel, thanks for the content!
Your ability to capture the essence of game and why it's great in such a concise way is unparalleled. I always come away from your videos wanting to guy ALL of them.
I think I remember hearing somewhere the original lore for clue explaining how one of the players is the killer is that if that person wins, it signifies them destroying the evidence and escaping.
We got a copy of Cludo a decade ago. It was so boring that after a single we read through all the rules and were racking our brains trying to work out if there was a mechanic or rule that we'd missed. I remember it being fun as a kid and also having genuine nightmares about the Colonel Mustard card.
Mystery Express is an exceptional Advanced Clue game. The removal of movement, plus the presence of 2 cards of each type (so you are trying to find the cards in each category that have only 1 cards out) really step things up several notches. I am surprised it didn’t make a “Clue replacement” list!
I’m shocked you didn’t put Awkward Guest on this list.
I thought i heard him mentioning it as alternative for Sherlock
@ maybe I missed that part. I was multitasking while listening.
Love Mysterium! Haven't played any of the others but have added a few new ones to my wishlist 🥰 Paranormal detective seems like a fun one 😂
Same here
There is also 5-Minute Mystery that hits the same nerve as outfoxed but is a bit more for adults I guess.
There's also Tiny epic crimes.
The wife refuses to learn anything more complex than 'snap' so outfoxed might be a good choice.
16:50 Thanks Jon. I've been trying to keep myself youthful.
Great video
I know it isn't true because in the supermarket they tap "visibly over 25" when I buy alcohol 😢
I found that Mysterium had a similar logic problem to Cluedo, it might be a thing between different versions, but when I played it, everyone solved their own murder and had to decide which was the real murder at the end. It just didn't make sense.
For a young audience, I reckon Small Detectives is pretty good, but sadly out of print. It's a similar mechanic to Cluedo in that you're uncovering suspects, and it has a different movement rule that means most times you can discover something, but you can also mess with opponents a bit
Our Clue house rule: throw the dice out the window. Everyone gets 6 spaces they can move on their turn. Makes a much better game.
Not a bad idea. There doesn't seem to be a reason to do dice-based movement.
@@scottplumer3668to add a random element to the game
Clue DVD does away with dice rolling altogether... you can move one room per turn
Our group loves the Sid Sackson classic, Sleuth. It checks the deduction box without falling into the mistakes you mention. Also benefits from being easy to teach and difficult to master.
Bae wake up, actualol posted a new video ☺️
Why are they always asleep? 😁
I'd never considered that...
Great video. Actually considering this advice for christmas.
Love your channel. It occurred to me during your Outfoxed review that, as a relatively new parent whose kid is just starting to get into board games, if you made a 'Top 10 Board Games to play with your Kid" (Maybe even a couple, one for toddlers, and one for ~6-13 years old), I'd probably use your affiliate links for every single game I didn't already own. (And if you already have a video like this, please point me to it!)
You forget: Awkward Guests: The Walton Case, one of the best deduction games.
Loved this video! You brought back the characters/personalities!! ❤
"You've won.... twenty years in prison!" lol ;-)
I really like Mystery of the Abbey. It’s older but it being clergypersons in a monastery is nice and you get to ask questions but the recipient can choose to take a vow of silence.
Glad you covered Outfoxed. My friend who designs board games (for adults) couldn’t recommend Outfoxed more for kids. Can’t wait until my kids are old enough for it.
The one and only channel which I like the clip before I start to looking it. Because it's obviously a great watch.
Should make one for Scrabble. theres tons of also enjoyable word games now like paperback and hardback , etc
That's like Mr Bean taking on Mike Tyson in a boxing match.Scrabble is a near perfect boardgame. There's a reason why it's sold hundreds of millions across the whole world
Probably my favorite game that I bring to meetings every time is _"P.I."_ which plays 2-5 (but 2 is not fun). You try to get the best score by solving 3 cases, each time guessing the suspect, crime and hideout cards held by the person on your right. You mainly pick from one of nine face-up cards of the 14 locations, 12 suspects and 10 crimes. The person on your right then tells you whether you guessed correctly (you get a disc), guessed adjacent to the card (you get a cube) or are cold (you keep the card in front of you).
If none of the nine cards will help you, then you can use one of your five private investigators to go to a location and get cubes and discs for all three cards, but not learning which is which. They can only be used once over the three cases and are the tie-breaker.
Once you think you've figured it out, you can take a turn to make the accusation. If you try to solve a case and fail, you take a -2 penalty but can keep playing. If you solve your case first you get 7 points (so maximum for three cases is 21). If you solve your case on the same turn you also get 7. The next time someone solves their case they will get 5 (then 3, then 1). Normally, the last person doesn't get to solve their case, but that wasn't fun, so we use the house rule that they get 1 or 2 more turns, depending on their order, to either get the same points (solving on the same turn), or 2 less.
The suspects and crimes on the board are randomly placed, so we nearly always shuffle them and place them in new positions for the next case. The other drawback for this game is the fonts and colors on the board can make it difficult to see the locations, though suspects generally have distinctive colored backgrounds on their cards.
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There were other detective games that I played as a kid, tried to play, or wanted to play:
Long before eBay we got _Manhunt_ at a garage sale, but it was missing pieces or instructions so we never played a full game. It has a way for a player to secretly find information like it seems _Kronologic_ does. But it only has 16 scanner cards for cases, so limited like the one shown in this video. We tossed it when we moved.
I got to play _Electronic Detective_ as a kid. Basically you go around town to find information and punch it into the computer to see what the result is. I picked up a working device at a thrift store, but it was missing the cards and maybe instructions, so without internet and eBay to get the missing ones, we tossed that one too. Too bad, because it's said to have more cases than you could possibly ever play.
Another game that came out in the era of handheld electronic games, was _Stop Thief._ I don't remember playing that or getting that either.
Great video! After playing both I prefer Rear Window quite a bit over the similar Mysterium Park.
Great list, thank you! Another one I really love is Awkward Guests: The Walton Case. Probably my favorite deduction game.
Love the format!! Some new ones for my wishlist
Picked up Mysterium and Paranormal Detectives after this video...thanks for these recommendations and I love your channel
221B Baker Street is my favorite clue like board game. It does use the slow movement of clue but there are 200 cases with full stories and clues to solve. Sometimes you can get it in just a few clues and sometimes you have to visit all of London to find out who the killer is
Lovely video. thank you that you make videos despite the troubles. they always puts a smile on my face.
Thanks John for that entertaining presentation. They are all good alternatives to Cluedo, I would also throw games like Scotland Yard: Sherlock Holmes edition and Whitehall Mystery into the mix. Cluedo was fantastic back in the day when I was a boy, so was Uno, but there are certainly better games out there today.
16:52 - aww, thanks! As someone who has two 5-year olds, it's great that I still look 25.
And it's awesome to see Outfoxed! on this list! Although my 5-year olds do still get sad when they don't get their roll on their turn.
Great video as always!!!Know it’s been tough but you’ll always always have fans to back you up keep it up 🙏 🙏
Great list! I’m a bit surprised Detective: City of Angels didn’t make the list
Great video with great recommendations.👍
And Snobby Sherlock is brilliant! 😆
Ohhh! That Sherlock game sounds amazing. Sure hope there’s a spanish version in the works. Thanks for another great video!
My partner and I play Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detectives. It's a grand time full of silly character voices and theory crafting. Definitely recommend it if you're interested !
Tiny Epic Crimes is a great Clue replacement. Similar mechanic including the envelope with the answer. Lots of fun.
I have many of your recommended clue alternatives, but I can't bring myself to get rid of clue because it's one of the board games that got me into this hobby =) the memories are too good
The last few times I played it, I tried to take notes of what other cards people might be seeing when asking for information, but it didn't work, I still lost.
Love the video! You should do a similar video about alternatives to Risk and Uno too
Thanks! I'll certainly consider it. Got any top picks for those lists?
@@actualol For Uno i will consider Spicy and Lama Kadabra
and for Risk i think 878 Vikings
@@kikirikiki627 Great choices!
When I a kid I was just IMPRESSED with Scotland Yard. Until this day I remember it as a super deep and mysterious game. I’m afraid to go back to it and see that it had the same design problems as clue, I guess haha
Hahaha! "They can help you with your turn, if you are tired from a hard days work" - great line! :)
Another great video. Your writing is amazing.
Can you do a video on the best games to introduce someone into the genre? We're currently getting into it as a family and striking the balance between complexity and ease of learning is tough!
We're big cluedo fans which were using as a jumping off point but we'd like to get into a lot of different games and it's overwhelming!
Excellent video. Like to see you having fun in these things.
I absolutely love Paranormal Detectives and have had so much fun as both the detective and the ghost. Though I think my wife prefers being the ghost. And even though I believe the max player count is 6 (1 ghost and 5 detectives), I managed to play the game with 9 people (1 ghost and 4 groups of 2 detectives each) and the game was honestly even better because you have a partner to discuss things with, it makes the game a lot more sociable.
One other Clue replacement game I'll mention that wasn't on this list is Tiny Epic Crimes. That one was also a lot of fun and one I recommend!
Very nice concept! keeps the channel fresh, carry on!
Good video. Going to have to try these recommendations. I will say you were reaching a bit with that last reason just to tie in Outfoxed. 😂
There is also Inkognito which is a great alternative, secretely finding who your ally is around the table and cooperating in order to achieve a mission
I would vote for Chronicles of Crime - you can also make this more kid friendly with the Redview expansion. Another option is the MicroMacro Crime City series
I enjoyed the video, and loved the humour! Thanks 😊
And win the chance to play it 100 more times that weekend.
Absolutely slayed me with the truth. This guy knows kids.
13 Clues is my favourite Clue alternative as everybody has to find their own combination of murder, weapon and location :)
O melhor jogo que tenho nessa temática é o "convidados indejesados" se não teve oportunidade de conhecer, conheça. E esse é provavelmente o melhor canal de Board games que acompanho.
2 other deduction-style games I can think of for young kids that would be better than Clue(do) are "Ghosted" & "Dinosaur Tea Party".
Ghosted is effectively just the investigation process of Clue without the tedium of moving around. Each player was killed and they're trying to figure out of a list of 12 for each, who killed them, with what, and why. Players take turns asking other players questions, with the line of questioning being limited to a dice roll (the game does have a way to alter a turn if a player has solved a category for themselves), and work to cross suspects, motives, and weapons off their board until they figure it out. Not super deep admittedly, but for a 15-30 minute $10 game, it fills its niche well.
Dinosaur Tea Party on the other hand, is more of a "Guess Who?" for 4 players. Players get dealt a secret identity and take turns asking each other yes/no questions (Ideally, this is all done while pretending to be as posh and upper class as possible as the game suggests). If a player's identity is guessed, they draw a new identity and the guest is removed from the board. First to 3 correct guesses wins. To me, having the extra tension of needing to either be good or not too revealing with your questions, as otherwise a different player can snipe the solution is what elevates it above the basic Guess Who game.
Loved this video, thanks so much for the recommendations -- would love more videos about this length. :)
That blip at 4:27 has never happened before 😮
That ghost is a total prankster
Thank you Perky John. Some fabulous suggestions here.
I will share this video..
~smiles~
I still love clue and it's something I can play with my parents when visiting, but mysterious definitely is my favorite mystery game
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective! So good.
Amazing work as usual!
Thank you for the video and suggestions, and for very entertaining video. I love your acting and jokes and play on words. You do amazing job!
And I agree with all your points. I loved Clue game a ton when I was younger/teen. But I have already moved away from it because all of those characteristics/disadvantages...
Thank you for the tips and the reasons to play the alternatives. For me i loved Clue, until i started hating the game when you got banned if you got it wrong. I think i like the Sherlock games most and its alternatives
*dreams about seeing you play Outfoxed with your son, in four years' time* 😌
Amazing video! Love Mysterium and I need to try Kronologic and Paranormal Detective!!
I found this very helpful. I like logic games and these are very interesting.
The best Clue replacement is Awkward Guests. I can’t believe it did not make your list.
Clue was my favorite game as a kid. You are 100% correct that it is time to bury it. I enjoy Sherlock and Chronicles of crime. Can't wait to try some of the other recommendations 😊
I love your channel! Thank you!
Thanks. New ideas. Consulting Detective might be the best game ever created.
As a kid we learned about gruesome murder from Don Bluthe in the Land Before Time. Kids can handle it.
Yeah, somehow I don't think "1313 Dead End Drive" gave children nightmares.
At a Halloween event we played Mysterium. Me being the ghost, under a white sheet and cut out holes for eyes.
Kill Doctor Lucky is also a suggestion as a way better game than Cluedo, but in reverse!
I've played Mysterium at least two times and I hate it. It's just so random.