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In Canada and the U.S., the game is known as Clue. It was retitled because the traditional British board game Ludo, on which the name is based, was less well known there than its American variant Parcheesi. [41] The North American versions of Clue also replace the character "Reverend Green" from the original Cluedo with "Mr. Green". This is the ...
1-2+, ~1/2: WDN: Musketeer chess: Castellum armies: Combination of War Machine and Knight. See Minister. Dullahan: 1X,~ 1/2: FN: Fearful Fairies [15] Combination of Ferz and Knight. Known as Prince among problemists and named Priest in Scirocco. The name Dullahan was chosen as a male counterpart to Banshee. Dummy: DU: A piece with no moves at all.
In Clue Mysteries, he is known as Miles and is an occasional theft victim. Mrs. Meadow-Brook - Wife of the deceased Mr. Meadow-Brook. In Clue Mysteries, she is known as Jane. She is also a playable character in the 2006 Clue DVD game. Prince Azure - An "aristocratic" art and arms dealer. In Clue Mysteries, he is known as Philippe.
Chess equipment (2 C, 4 P) D. Dice (1 C, 23 P) G. Go equipment (5 P) Pages in category "Board game pieces" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
This glossary of chess explains commonly used terms in chess, in alphabetical order.Some of these terms have their own pages, like fork and pin.For a list of unorthodox chess pieces, see Fairy chess piece; for a list of terms specific to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems; for a list of named opening lines, see List of chess openings; for a list of chess-related games, see List of ...
Cluedo, known as Clue in North America, is a murder mystery-themed multimedia franchise started in 1949 with the manufacture of the Cluedo board game. The franchise has since expanded to film, television game shows, book series, computer games, board game spinoffs, a comic, a play, a musical, jigsaws, card games, and other media.
The name Mauscheln means something like "(secretive) talk". According to Meyers Konversationslexikon of 1885 to 1892 the word Mauschel is derived from the Hebrew word moscheh "Moses", in Ashkenazi Hebrew Mausche, Mousche, and was a nickname for Jews; in Old German mauscheln means something like "speak with a Jewish accent" or haggle". [2]
Edward Nathan Frankenstein suggested in 1903 a variation of the game where one player sees the board and another plays Kriegspiel. To make the game fair, the "sighted" player starts with fewer pieces. Frankenstein proposed two variants: Pickle pot: The player who sees the board plays with king, queen, one bishop, and pawns; a total of 11 pieces.