The suspects have new given names and backgrounds, as well as differing abilities that may be used during the game. Brunette and Miss Peach—the same four new characters from the VCR games), two weapons (poison and horseshoe), and seven rooms (courtyard, gazebo, drawing room, carriage house, trophy room, studio and fountain) to the mansion. Nicknamed "the Hunter", he is described as "little more than a scoundrel" and someone who has "always gotten by on his good looks".

Cluedo Card Game (1992) [14] is a shedding-type card game, where players attempt to match cards featuring the locations, weapons, and characters from the original game with a central pile of cards.In each turn players guess three of these four unknowns; and from time to time Inspector Brown and the butler, Ashe, show up via the DVD with helpful information. Various versions of the game were developed for Commodore 64, PC, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, CD-i, Sega Genesis, PC, Mac, and Apple iPhone / iPod Touch. Though the patent was granted in 1947, due to war shortages the game was not officially launched until 1949, at which time the game was simultaneously licensed to Parker Bros.

Boddy himself is ludicrously naive, to the point where he accepts any attempt to kill him as an accident or a misunderstanding (such as a dropped wrench flying all the way across the Mansion and hitting him in the head), and invites the guests back to the mansion.Each of the four corner rooms contains a secret passage that leads to the room on the opposite diagonal corner of the map. According to the rules, "When you think you have worked out which three cards are in the envelope, you may, on your turn, make an Accusation and name any three elements you want. Before then, Boddy discovered a series of secret allowances bequeathed to some of his uncle's former associates.