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Designed By	James Ernest
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Published By	Cheapass Mario Truant Verlag Titanic Games
Year Published	1996
# of Players:	3 − 7
User Suggested # of Players	(Not best with any number) Recommended with 3, 4, 5, 6 players (28 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	45 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	12 and up
User Suggested Ages	10 and up (5 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	Some necessary text - easily memorized or small crib sheet (7 voters) [poll]
Category	Murder/Mystery
Mechanic	Hand Management Point to Point Movement
Primary Name	Kill Doctor Lucky
Alternate Names	Kill Doktor Lucky
Expanded By	Show Expansions » The Doctor Lucky Ambivalence Pack Kill Doctor Lucky... and His Little Dog, Too! Kill Doctor Lucky: Craigdarroch
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Popular game from Cheapass, which specializes in quick games with very cheap components. Players are expected to supply the usual gaming stuff, dice, markers etc, Cheapass supplies the rest with a large dollop of humor. In this notorious game, players move around the mansion trying to murder Dr Lucky without being seen. An inversion of Clue.

In the Cheapass game Save Doctor Lucky the goal is to prevent Dr. Lucky from drowning.

Versions

1997 Original cardstock version (out of print)
2002 Director's Cut - cardstock - includes a second game board modeled after Kill Doctor Lucky: Craigdarroch
2006 Deluxe Edition - Complete, high quality, color edition from Titanic Games

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Awards

1997 Origins Awards Winner, Best Abstract Board Game.
1997 GAMES Magazine's GAMES 100 Winner.

Online Play

GameTable Online (real-time)

Microbadge

Doctor Lucky fan

Variants

The use of spite tokens is presented as optional in the rules. By a wide margin, BGG users seem to prefer using the spite tokens.

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0	General Luck vs. Strategy in Board Games	2009-06-29	bottman77	1
2	General Introducing people to better board games and a link to our review of KDL	2009-03-02	morlockhq	0
14	Reviews Like love, better the second time around	2009-02-16	leroy43	2
0	General Is this going Out of Print?	2009-01-13	BonesJackson	11
5	Reviews Kill Mister Magoo	2008-11-02	VixenTorG...	0
12	Reviews A Review of a Fun, Humorous Parody of Clue	2008-10-07	Redwhelp	2
20	Reviews [Video Review] Kill Doctor Lucky	2008-09-21	TomVasel	0
0	General Throwing the Game (Giving Up)	2008-08-25	Rainbow S...	11
5	Variants The Ghost of Mrs. Lucky	2008-07-21	bonz	8
0	General Failure atempt stuck	2008-07-03	madzukas	4

	Recommendations

Strong Recommendations
Save Doctor Lucky

Standard Recommendations
Unexploded Cow	Deadwood

Weak Recommendations
Captain Park's Imaginary Polar Expedition	Devil Bunny Hates the Earth	Lord of the Fries	Witch Trial
US Patent Number 1	Devil Bunny Needs a Ham	Escape from Elba	The Great Brain Robbery
TimeLine	Chief Herman's Holiday Fun Pack	Girl Genius: The Works	Safari Jack
Get Out	The Big Idea	Renfield	Give Me the Brain!
Before I Kill You, Mr. Bond	Spree!	Starbase Jeff	The Big Cheese
Bitin' Off Hedz

Very Weak Recommendations
The Very Clever Pipe Game

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The Ghost of Mrs. Lucky

A variant for 'Kill Doctor Lucky', which adds a randomly moving witness. Works well with 2-3 players when you want to prevent games to be over too quickly.

bonz

2008-07-21

Kill Doctor Lucky Cheat Sheet

A quick reference sheet for Kill Doctor Lucky.

Awfki

2008-04-03

Kill Doctor Lucky Tuckbox

This tuckbox is for the Titanic Games version of the game. It will hold all 96 cards. Template was created using Craig P. Forbes' tuckbox template generator found at http://www.cpforbes.net/tuckbox/ This is my first attempt at a tuckbox. Feedback would be appreciated. Enjoy! v1.01 Update - Corrected the top flap so that color fills the entire flap. Changed the color of some of the cut/fold lines so that they are easier to see after printout.

brerfrog

2008-03-28

kill doctor lucky CASTELLANO

version corregida de la anterior por error de traduccion respecto al apartado ¿quien va ahora? ... en fin un saludo y espero que no hubiese muchos quebraderos de cabeza, ... Lando77

lando77

2008-03-14

Kurzanleitung.doc

condensed German rules

woodoo03

2005-09-13

killdrlucky.doc

Rules in English

spiderbaby

2003-04-10

drlucky.txt

Two-player variant

2002-01-02

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	Statistics

User Rank:	1201
Num Ratings:	2450
Average Rating:	6.15
Standard Deviation:	1.48
Num Views:	73692
GeekBuddy Analysis:	Analyze
Similarly Rated:	View
Avg. Game Weight:	1.6
Fans:	5

Personal Comments:	950
Users Owning:	2933
Users Wanting:	58
Users Trading:	125
Has Parts For Trade:	0
Want Parts In Trade:	2
Price History:	View
Total Plays:	2098
Plays This Month:	8

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Kill Doctor Lucky... and His Little Dog, Too!

Rank	N/A
Num Ratings	84
Average Rating	6.16
Average Weight	1.80

Owned	252
Prev. Owned	5
For Trade	1
Wanted in Trade	13

Wishlist	32
Comments	38
Year Pub.	2007

Kill Doctor Lucky: Craigdarroch

Rank	N/A
Num Ratings	131
Average Rating	6.46
Average Weight	1.38

Owned	291
Prev. Owned	3
For Trade	10
Wanted in Trade	10

Wishlist	24
Comments	49
Year Pub.	1998

The Doctor Lucky Ambivalence Pack

Rank	N/A
Num Ratings	34
Average Rating	6.74
Average Weight	2.00

Owned	138
Prev. Owned	3
For Trade	3
Wanted in Trade	9

Wishlist	16
Comments	18
Year Pub.	2005

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Informational Page from About.com Website	http://boardgames.about.com/games/boardgames/libra...	2001-11-02
Review from Ken Tidwell's Game Cabinet	http://www.gamecabinet.com/reviews/FourShortReview...	2001-11-02
Review by Mike Siggins in Ken Tidwell's Game Cabinet	http://www.gamecabinet.com/reviews/Cheapass1.html	2001-11-02
Kill Dr. Lucky strategy at Graceful Boot.	http://gracefulboot.com/board_games/kill_dr_lucky_...	2002-06-26
Upgrading Idea using pawns from "Midnight Party"	http://www.thegamesjournal.com/articles/Upgrading....	2003-02-17
German Review at DROSI	http://drosi.tuts.nu/rezension/md100224.htm	2004-12-26
Review in Finnish at Lautapelaaja.net	http://www.lautapelaaja.net/arvostelut/killdrlucky...	2005-03-19
Review on www.GoodGameGuide.de (in German)	http://www.superfred.de/killdoktorlucky.html	2005-07-27
Homemade 3D board	http://homepage.ntlworld.com/myronf/kdl.html	2006-02-28
Gaming Unplugged at Snackbar Games	http://www.snackbar-games.com/features/gaming_unpl...	2007-11-05

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