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Solving a Murder, Brick by Brick!

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The gift that keeps on giving…

Clue (aka Cluedo) is one of the all-time classic board games.

It has seen numerous variations and licensed versions (like the Golden Girls edition, where you need to find out who ate the last piece of cheesecake) as well as escape room-style adaptations. Characters have come and gone, like Dr. Orchid, who took Mrs. White’s place in 2016.

It has even been turned into a movie, a comedic delight that’s on my rewatch list every year (alongside its less-appreciated but equally subversive counterpart, Murder By Death).

And now it has made the leap back to tabletops with a twist: a LEGO version of the board.

This LEGO creation by a married couple under the reddit handle Brickly_Pair is currently on the LEGO Ideas website, being voted on by fans and fellow constructors and hoping to cross the 5000-like threshold for consideration to become an official LEGO set.

Now, this isn’t the first LEGO Clue board I’ve seen. In fact, I wrote about one back in 2016 that came with an interactive scorecard for your deductive reasoning.

There’s also this other one I found via a quick Google search, which has six color-coded minifigs as your playable characters / suspects.

But the set by Brickly_Pair goes above and beyond both of those previous endeavors.

The rooms are beautiful, richly detailed, and immersive. The logo in the center of the board is gorgeous. The game pieces are a little simple, but definitely feel inspired by the actual game’s pieces.

All the little nods to both its source material and classic LEGO sets (like the Wolfpack banner above the fireplace) make this a work of puzzly art as well as a fun way to revamp and revitalize a classic board game.

Now, seriously, could someone get to work on a Murder By Death set? It could have the shifting rooms, falling gargoyles, and best of all, a Jamesir Bensonmum minifig!

Do you think this Clue LEGO set will grace your shelves one day, fellow puzzler? Or would you like to see another board game get the LEGO brick treatment? Let us know in the comments section below! We’d love to hear from you.