Clue - The Great New Sherlock Holmes Game

Like I said before January was quite the month for Clue games. I filled a huge hole in the collection with this one, While its not in the greatest condition, its rare enough that I frankly don't care. This is "The Great New Sherlock Holmes Game. It was published concurrently in 1949 with "The Great New Detective Game." There would be follow on versions of both of these games in 1949 dropping the word new from the title.

This one is not complete with original parts but I have enough games to swap out the parts that aren't original. This copy game with a plastic version of the rope which did not appear until the 1963 edition, it was nice to see the original lead pipe still in the box though. This was a well played copy as evidenced by the wear and tear on the cards and the solution envelope having torn into two pieces. The rules are original though which is another key piece to this copy of the game as is the board. Everything matches up with the title "The Great New Sherlock Holmes Games" which is the key to collecting this edition of the game,

The board is usually the piece that goes missing with these early editions.

The box could be better but it will do. It is pretty faded from the original color, but its in otherwise in pretty good condition. All the corners are intact.

The plastic rope is not original, it should be a piece of string at this date.

The rules match the box! 

The Game of "Clue" 1949 Small Box

I have added a new page that I'm going to use to track my "Clue" game collection. As I update it I'll try and keep it, somewhat, in chronological order with the oldest editions of the game coming first. I have shown of the three versions of the Disney Haunted Mansion Clue here before, so those are photos that will be added to that page. Mostly I'm doing this to have an excuse to inventory my games and figure out exactly what I have, including which games are complete and which games I need to find pieces for. 
This morning I am putting up pictures of the 1st American edition of clue, circa 1949-1950. This is a transition era game as games moved from small boxes with separate boards to larger boxes that contained everything. 

This is the 1949 Small box edition. I'm continually keeping my eye out for these as the colors of the box faded so quickly from a pretty nice darker green to a rather ugly grayish green. This is probably the best of the bunch as far as color goes and it is complete (although I forgot to take a picture of the board). I have a second copy that is only a little lighter in color from this one but neither are really close to the original.