Unit 6D, Exercise 1, page 61.0:01
Cluedo, England, 1944.0:06
Anthony Pratt invents Cluedo and his wife designs the board.0:10
Waddington Games buys the idea, releases the game in 1949 and it becomes a great success.0:17
The aim of the game is to find out the identity of the killer of Dr. Black, the murder weapon and the scene of the crime.0:26
In order to do that, players move around the house and ask the other players questions.0:36
The first player to solve the crime wins.0:42
Scrabble, New York, 1933.0:48
Alfred Butts notices how popular crossword puzzles are and comes up with the idea of Scrabble.0:52
In Scrabble, players pick seven letter tiles at random and then try to make words using their letters.1:01
Players get bonus points for using certain squares on the board and using letters like Q and z. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins.1:09
Charles Darrow invents the Monopoly board game and makes the first 5,000 sets of the game himself.1:27
The aim of the game is to make as much money as possible.1:36
In order to do that, buy, sell and rent property.1:40
One by one, the players run out of money and the last player left is the winner.1:46
Today, Monopoly is the best selling board game in the world, with sales of over 200 million sets in 80 different countries.1:52
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