Hey all intrepid submission scourers! Santo76 and Frickinawesome wish to first thank you so much for all the comments of goodness during this submission’s run, along with the 2.84 score as well as the 46 guesses as to which dastardly character committed murder most foul to Mr. Bodie’s body. Your guesses were wide-ranging and the reasonings were nearly as much fun to read as we had devising the puzzle for you guys and gals. Some of your answers were so well-thought-out and so elaborate, touching upon things that we didn’t even dream of being clues or pointing to the killer, that some of you might be even a tad bit dissapoointed at what we thought was a pretty clever added bonus to the design. Crap, time to make this crime as complicated to unravel as a classic Batman mind-twister!

First, many of you noticed right away that a hand was slightly sticking out of the cabinet in a room behind the main hall. This is the hand of Mr. Bodie himself, hastily stashed away after a quick and untidy deathening.



The room has books and a fireplace in it from the glow coming out of the space, so it could be narrowed down to the study or library. However, if you look at an actual board of the game of Clue, you will see that the library is right next to where the staircase in the center is, making the room that Mr. Bodie took his last breath of air was in the Library.



Next, the weapon! All of the shady characters in this musty mansion setting have a weapon they could have used to kill Mr. Bodie with, and on each of the characters there is a weapon in or directly aorund their person with which to commit the deadly deed.

Miss Scarlet has a gun tattoo around her other ones on her leg.



Mr. Green has a wrench on his tie clip.



Mrs. Peacock has a rope concealed within her plumage.



Professor Plum has a candlestick concealed as one of the legs of the chair he is seated upon.



Colonel Mustard has a knife badge on his lapel.



Which leaves Mrs. White sitting on the wall, literally telling you she’s been “framed” and trying to plead her innoncence to suspicious and prying private eyes such as yourself. But her eyes tell a different story. They are both looking over in the direction of the scene of the murder, seeing if anyone has gotten suspicious yet. She is also eyeing MR. Green, who seems to be delivering an SOS if you will to the viewers of the crime in his teeth with the word “SHE”.



If that wasn’t enough, Mrs. White’s shifty eyes are also focused in the direction of the lead pipe she has tried to quickly hide to disguise her crimes, which can be found laying low behind the table where the telephone is sitting.



Mrs. White thought she was being clever by concealing her weapon as far away as possible, but this in fact doomed her final fate. All of the other characters have their weapons on or around them, holding them close to them as they’ve got nothing to hide by showing them (well, nothing to hide at least for THIS murder scenario). Mrs. White hid her weapon as far away from her as possible in the scene, sealing her fate as the guiltiest party at the dinner party!

In short, it was Mrs. White, with the lead pipe, in the library.

CRIME SOLVED!

After the polls were closed for voting on the design, I gave the nine super sleuths who figured out who did what with what (including the first person who made a guess a mere 20 or so minutes after the submission went up for voting on!) separate numbers spread out and jumbled them all around, emailing them to Santo76 for him to randomly pick two of these numbers out. And that is how we came to the conclusion that:

CONGRATS Hinchan and Murky78, get ready for some new shirts to put over your detective’s hat and coat because you’ve won the 25 dollar Threadless gift certificates! Just email the private investigation headquarters at donthaveacluethreadless@gmail.com again and tell us which email address you’d like your gift certificate sent to.

Thanks everyone for playing our groovy lil game within our submission, let’s hope you can get others to enjoy this mindteaser in person if Threadless sees fit to print Don’t Have A Clue on a t-shirt for others to puzzle their best friends with all around town!