Clue

Viking Secret Wildcard Poker Add-on Deck
This page deals with cards from the game Clue as they pertain to the rules of Viking Secret Wildcard Poker.

Overview

Clue cards have several special effects when they are played in certain combinations.

Note: In the UK, the game is called Cluedo. To avoid confusion, The term 'Clue' is used throughout this document.

Card descriptions

Clue cards come in three different types:

• Suspect
• Weapon
• Location

A full list of these cards can be found here, but they are not all required to play VSWP. Any subset will do as long as it contains at least one Suspect card.

Terminology

When referring to these cards in pairs or groups, the following terminology is used:

Suspect + Location	Suspect in the Location
Suspect + Weapon	Suspect with the Weapon

Examples:

• Col. Mustard in the Kitchen.
• Mrs. White with the Revolver.

Setup

The Suspect cards are shuffled into the general deck by the dealer. The other cards (Weapons and Locations) are shuffled together to form a separate Clue deck. This is also done by the dealer prior to the beginning of the game.

Rules

Dealing

If a Clue card is dealt as a community card, the dealer must immediately place a card from the separate Clue deck on top of it. This will result with a Suspect with either a Location or a Weapon on top of it. Different combinations result in different effects on the game. The effects of these combinations are outlined below. If there is no specific effect outlined for a particular combination, then that combination is not considered to have any extra effect on the game beyond its base value.

If a Clue card is dealt to a player as one of their Pit cards, the player must turn it face up in front of them, and the dealer must then place a card from the separate Clue deck on top of the Suspect card. In this scenario, the Clue cards have the same effects as if they were in the community cards, but the effects apply only to the player to whom the Clue Suspect card was dealt, unless otherwise specified. The Clue card must be replaced by a new card dealt from the General Deck, so that the player now has two face-down Pit cards and one face-up Clue card stack. Any two of these three items may be used to make the player's final five-item hand.

Scoring

A Clue card stack has a base value equal to the absolute value of the difference between the number of letters in the Suspect's last name (ignore the title) and the number of letters in the Weapon/Location card name, including spaces. Examples: Mr. Green in the Kitchen = 5 - 7 = 2. Miss Scarlet with the Rope = 7 - 4 = 3.

Stand-alone Suspect Effects

Miss Scarlet

• If Miss Scarlet is dealt into the Pants, all male players must fold and cannot win the pot.
  • If all of the players remaining in the hand when the Pants card is dealt are male, then the pot should be evenly split between them.
• If Miss Scarlet is dealt into a male player's Pit, then all male players must fold except for him.
• If Miss Scarlet is dealt into a female player's Pit, then all male players--whether they are still in the hand or not--must put 10% of their remaining chips into the pot.

Stand-alone Weapon Effects

Knife

• If the Knife is dealt onto any Suspect card in a player's Pit, the Suspect accidentally falls on it and kills himself/herself. The Clue cards are removed from the player's Pit and have no further effect.

Candlestick

• The Candlestick adds 5 points to the base value of the Clue card stack, since it can be melted down and sold.

Combo Effects

• If the accusation is Professor Plum in the Library, then much new knowledge is gained. Players remaining in the hand must immediately place one of their Pit cards (of their choice) face up on the table in front of them.

• If the accusation involves Mrs. White in the Kitchen, players remaining in the hand are dealt one new Pit card from the General Deck. They may now use any two of their three Pit Cards, in combination with three community cards, to make their final five-card hand.

• If the accusation involves Mr. Green with the Revolver, then the player who would have been next to play must fold.
  • Exception: If this combination occurs as the Pants card, nothing happens as all bets have been made at this point.
  • If this accusation is dealt to a player's Pit, then the next player in order of dealing must fold and cannot play in the hand.