Stars: 4 out of 5
Pros: It’s Clue!!!!!!
Cons: Board looks weird, tilts forward
The Bottom Line:
Board game that I love
Now shrunk to ornament size
And I am so thrilled!
I Doubt You Need a Clue to Figure Out How This Mystery Lover Feels About This Ornament
When Hallmark first announced their Family Game Night
series, I immediately said my number one wish for the series was a Clue ornament. And Hallmark came through with
the fourth entry in the series.
As you can imagine, I spent many happy hours playing Clue as
a kid. I even tried to come up with ways
to play it by myself that sort of worked.
(Okay, not really, but it didn’t stop me.) A mystery to solve and clues to gather? I’ve always been a mystery reader, so this
was right up my alley.
And this ornament is wonderful. Like others in the series, we have the board
sticking out of the box. The game and
the game box has gone through many versions over the years, but they went with
the one from the 80’s. Sitting on the
board are the six weapons, and two of the tokens, Miss Scarlet and Colonel
Mustard. They even include the
confidential case file folder that holds the solution to the mystery. It looks more like a traditional file folder
than the envelope that was really in the game, but it’s still a wonderful
touch.
Being a child of the 80’s, this is the version of the box
cover I still have, so I am absolutely thrilled to see it here. Since I love green, I always played as Mr.
Green. Yes, I would have preferred if he
had been one of the tokens chosen, but that’s being nitpicky.
However, I do have some critiques. The rope is more of a yellow plastic than the
white used in the game. And yes, I
pulled out my game to double check on this.
This is especially obvious since it is sitting next to the yellow
Colonel Mustard token. In the earlier
entries in this series, they just tried to include a portion of the game
board. This time, they tried to include
all of it, but the result looks distorted.
They should have just used half the board.
And the biggest issue?
It tilts forward quite noticeably.
Of course, this is an issue the series has as a whole since the loop for
hanging the ornament is on the top of the lid, and most of the ornament sticks
out in front. There’s no real way to
balance it well.
The game board does provide a nice flat surface, so you can
easily set it out to be displayed year-round if you want. And you’ll find the series marker on the
bottom of the board.
No, the ornament isn’t perfect. However, I still absolutely love it. Clue will bring smiles to my face for years
to come.
It’s your turn to find more ornaments in the Family Game
Night series.
Original Price: $15.95
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