Cluedo's Final Mystery Solved At Inventor's Grave

LONDON (Reuter) - Cluedo, the mystery whodunnit board game that has sold nearly 150 million copies around the world, has yielded its final clue in the cemetery of a country church.

Three million sets of Cluedo are sold every year in 23 countries, and its manufacturers, British firm Waddington's, hoped to invite the game's inventor, law clerk Anthony Pratt, to celebrations marking the game's imminent milestone sales.

The company, last in contact with the elusive Pratt at the Cluedo world championships 10 years ago, even set up a hotline to hunt for the man who invented the board game in the 1940s.

The trail went cold Tuesday when cemetery superintendent Gillian Lewis called to say Pratt died in 1994.

His tombstone reads: "Anthony Pratt, a dearly loved father. Inventor of Cluedo."

Reuters/Variety