Famous Detectives
This Great Dane helps Mystery Inc. solve spooky mysteries and loves Scooby Snacks.
Scooby-Doo
This Clue suspect shares his name with a yellow sandwich topping.
Col. Mustard
In the game “I Spy,” you give a hint like “I spy something…” this, which tells the color
of the hidden object.
A color
Spies write secret messages with this special “ink” you cannot see until the paper is
warmed up
Invisible Ink
A detective looks for these swirly marks your fingers leave behind to find out who
touched something
Fingerprints
Sherlock Holmes uses this round glass tool to look very closely at tiny clues.
A magnifying glass
In Clue, you solve the case by naming the suspect, the room, and this.
Weapon
In Guess Who, you ask yes-or-no questions about a person’s face and looks to guess
their this
Name (who they are)
This code uses dots and dashes to send messages. Dot-dot-dot, dash-dash-dash
spells SOS.
Morse code
A detective writes down everything they notice in this
Notebook
This smart girl detective stars in her own book series, solving mysteries in a town
called River Heights.
Nancy Drew
The suspect Mrs. Peacock is named after this colorful bird with a big fancy tail.
Peacock
A puzzle with twisty paths where you find your way from start to finish is called this.
A maze
A secret message written in code is called this.
Cipher
A person a detective thinks might have done it is called this.
A suspect
Sherlock Holmes’s best friend and helper is a doctor with this last name?
Watson
Name one room you might sneak through in the Clue mansion.
Any of: Kitchen, Library, Ballroom, Study, Dining Room, Conservatory, Lounge, Hall
In a seek-and-find or hidden picture puzzle, you use these two body parts to spot the
hidden things.
Your eyes
A toy _____ or wheel that helps you turn letters into a secret code is called a decoder
this:
Decoder ring
Muddy shoe marks left on the floor are this kind of “print” a detective can follow
Footprint
n the Scooby-Doo gang, this girl in glasses and an orange sweater says “Jinkies!”
and figures out the clues.
Velma
When you cross off clues one by one until only one answer is left, you are using this
kind of smart thinking that starts with the letter D.
Deduction
When you unscramble mixed-up letters to find a secret word, you are solving this
kind of word puzzle.
A word scramble or anagram
When you swap every letter for a different one, like A becomes B and B becomes C,
you have made a secret code. A famous Roman leader named Julius this used one long ago.
Caesar
If a suspect can prove they were somewhere else when it happened, they have one of
these. It is a word meaning “I was not there.”
A suspect