The Board Game Clue

I randomized the slips that people were getting when I was handing them out making sure that there was an even count on each of the five tracks. And then before I had printed out the slips of paper I rearranged the three symbols, their location on the piece of paper. So everybody's first symbol was different. It was one of those three symbols though. On the second one it would be coffin skull cross or coffin cross skull. This guaranteed that everybody was going to different symbols all the same time. That allowed them to focus their brain on that specific aspect of the puzzle which was the family tree rather than being diverted and going somewhere else. At the end there was a little cipher that they