In The Game Of “Clue: Family Edition” There’s Only One Loser — The Mom

Anna Jadow
4 min readFeb 11, 2022

The Case File

Yesterday morning in Anytown, USA, Jane Everymom suffered a nervous breakdown. Her therapist has narrowed down the list of potential suspects and modus operandi, but she needs your help to solve the case. If she can’t free Jane from her catatonic state by this evening, Jane won’t be able to make the organic snack spreadsheet for her son’s football team, and the boys will be forced to eat high fructose corn syrup and drink cow’s milk.

To Win The Game You Must Find Out Two Things:

1. Who committed the act that led to Jane’s nervous breakdown?

2. What did they do that pushed her over the edge?

The Suspects and Their M.O.s The Toddler: Destruction

-Woke up at 4:30am and demanded to play “baby”

-Threw Jane’s phone in the toilet

-Conspired with the family cat to mess with Jane’s hair until it was one enormous knot that she had to cut off at the root

The Tween: His Personality

-Constantly irritable. If Jane makes chicken for dinner, the Tween says “We just had that.” If Jane makes pasta, “Pasta is unhealthy.” If Jane makes vegetables, “What are we, vegan?”

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Anna Jadow
Anna Jadow

Written by Anna Jadow

Unpaid intern (mom). Words in McSweeney's, HuffPost, Slackjaw, The Belladonna, Little Old Lady Comedy, MuddyUm, Frazzled...

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