One of the most iconic game boards in existence. Cluedo (or Clue as it is also commonly known) is a simplistic game on the surface, everyone has their eye on one goal.
Find the Crime Scene, Murder Weapon, and Murderer.
Together, the players have all the knowledge needed to win the game, but nobody can just lay their cards on the table, because to reveal what you have would spell your own end. Everyone plays to win alone. And yet, it's almost impossible to win without information from players incentivised to hide as much as they can from you. A great player can gain information even from cards not shown to them. By the actions players take and all that's left unsaid.
The key to this game lies in figuring out what the other players are seeing that you can't. And making sure that what you see and what you know doesn't contradict their view.
At the end of the day all players are circling the truth, trying to grasp at the fragments of an answer that none of them can quite see.
But for every player there has to come a leap of faith. Even the most experienced players can't truly know everything off the bat. Even with the most accurate deductions, their jump can lead them in entirely the wrong direction. Nobody plays the game perfectly, as there isn't a perfect way to play.
And the winner could simply be decided by the roll of a die.
Everyone leaves the game board behind eventually, and steps away from the table. But everyone always has their own deck, their own hand of cards. Things that matter to them, things that affected them. Some of them good, some of them bad, most of them somewhere inbetween. Over the years of wear and tear, some cards are discarded, some are added to the deck, some bear marks that only a keen or familiar eye can recognise.