Catch A Clue – Change Coming To Popular Board Game

Sunday is often a day for family board games at our house. Kate is extremely competitive and a borderline poor sport! She just loves to win!  At 7 she isn’t quite ready for Clue but when she is, it won’t be the classic Clue with which I grew up.

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence given the nature of the news from the times in which we live-racial tensions and all- but Hasbro is about to make some changes to a  classic board game. After being a character in the game for nearly 70 years, Mrs. “White” is being killed off once and for all in August.

The housekeeper character will be replaced by Dr. Orchid, who Hasbro says, "is a biologist with a PhD in plant toxicology, privately schooled in Switzerland until her expulsion following a near-fatal daffodil poisoning incident. She was then home-schooled by the very woman she would go on to replace, the late housekeeper, Mrs. White."

Jonathan Berkowitz, Hasbro Gaming's senior vice president of global marketing says there was nothing racial in the decision to pull the plug on a character named “White”,  "It was a difficult decision to say goodbye to Mrs. White-- but after 70 years of suspicious activity, we decided that one of the characters had to go, adding, we're sure families around the world will continue to create thrilling murder mysteries with all six suspects inside of the iconic Tudor Mansion."