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The game Cluedo was invented by Anthony E. Pratt from Birmingham, England around 1944. After years of testing and perfecting, he patented the basic rules. In 1946 he and his wife visited the firm of Waddington's Games in Leeds to see if the game had a chance of production. Waddington staff tested the game in the office of the then director, Norman Watson, who was immediately enthusiastic. Due to material problems immediately after the war, the game could not be released for the first time until 1949. In the Netherlands, Cluedo was first officially released under license by N.V. Smeets & Schippers in 1959. That is the year in which the game was first mentioned in the advertisements in the Monopoly lids. It is possible that the game was imported from England before then, as was the case with the first Monopoly editions. The depicted game was found at a flea market with a Dutch lady who had owned this game since her youth.
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