He is drawn as a young, cheerful man wearing a trench-coat and glancing at his pocket-watch. Black makes only his second appearance in this game, his first as Mr. Black in reference to his more well-known uncle, Sir Hugh Black.Ĭluedo/Clue Mysteries: Dr. John Boddy, died just short of his 30th birthday. Boddy collects memoirs of famous spies as well as art, had an ex-secretary by the name of Madame Rose and supposedly has painted an exotic beauty several times in his Studio.Ģ002 US: Wealthy anthropologist, Mr. Master Detective: Though again unseen, Boddy's character is slightly more fleshed out through the descriptions on the playing cards. He appears as an older, sombre man with unkempt hair. Black makes his first appearance in a board game on the box cover of the 1996 Cluedo edition, as a photograph in a newspaper. Aside from being murdered, his role in the standard games ends here. His body is found at the bottom of the cellar stairs by Miss Scarlett.
Boddy is stated to have been the victim of foul play. Boddy is a pun on the fact that the character has become a 'dead body.'Ĭlassic Detective Game: In all original versions of Cluedo and Clue, Dr. Black was relegated to the role of permanent victim in the UK, and Mr.
However, prior to the publication of the first edition, Dr. Therefore, the victim was never intended to be the same character each game, nor were the player assignments. Black was listed in the original patent filing as one of the 10 characters created for the game, in which one character was randomly drawn from the suspect cards to serve as the new victim prior to the start of each game. In Cluedo, he is the unseen host who is murdered, which inspires the premise to discover who murdered him, with what implement, and where the crime scene took place in his mansion. Boddy (US) is the owner of Tudor Close (later Tudor Manor and Tudor Hall), who takes the stock character of a generic victim.
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