Game inventor “didn’t want to go to grave with it under the bed’

When Cliffe decided it was finally time to get his invention to market, the Covid-19 pandemic hit and “stopped me again in my tracks for two years.”

He wanted to have the game made in the UK, and found a firm that could make, print and pack it, but they then went into administration.

He said: “I couldn’t believe it, absolutely gutted.”

In the end after much searching, he discovered people just miles from his home who could do the production work.

Cliffe is packing and posting his creation himself, and thinks he is onto a winner, describing the game as simple and addictive.

He already has ideas for two more board games and a card game.

“My mind never, ever switches off, it’s just continually spinning, I just see something and I get an idea, and that’s it, I’m away,” he said.