Clue - Silver Line

We were wandering down the Christmas aisle (yes Christmas aisle) at Costco when I spotted a new Clue. It seems to be a tradition now Hasbro to take four of their traditional boardgames and packaged them for the Christmas season. This year they are known as the Silver Line and of course is contained a new rendition of Clue.

The price was right so I picked it up to add to the collection. Other than presentation this is pretty much a standard edition of Clue. It does have 7 weapons, so the bottle of poison is back in and it also includes the event deck.  You draw from it if you roll the magnifying glass on one, or both,  of the two black dice. I like the event deck and going with 7 weapons adds a bit more to the game. I have a few more comments in the captions for the pictures.

I do like the film noir look to the box. 

The box is a departure from the normal, the top and bottom are the same size but the body of the box itself is narrower.

The back of the box

The rules are right there when you open it up.

After removing the board this is what you see

This is new, these are invitations for the characters. You can use these to randomize which character you will be using for the game if you like.

The back of the deck and the confidential file sleeve

The six characters, I still lament the loss of Mrs White, the Maid.

Six of the weapons, the wrench is missing because I just counted out the six cards and took the picture. Again I like the B&W film look here

The rooms cards

The Event cards

The nice bag along with the game pieces

The weapons, I think the weapons just keep looking better every year.

The character pawns, the dice and some fancy clips. The clips are used to attache your sheet to the invitation. Probably won't bother with that. I think the clips would start to tear up the invitations cards after a while.

And the board. Its hard to see the in the photograph but there is a silvered look to the board. Again a nice nod to the film noir look. I think they could have gone a step further and done everything in black and white.