Star Trader's Luck (2009)

This is a dice game where players attempt to maximize profit by traveling from planet to planet buying and selling different types of goods within a limited time.

The roll of 3 to 5 dice (which can be manipulated to some extent) determines the available goods at the found planet and their level of demand (which basically affects price and maximum buying quantity). Players then decide if they want to sell and/or buy goods there. Also, every action takes time, and how you spend it is very important. Will you spend more time to reach a bigger planet so that the chances of getting cheap cargo will be bigger? or will you travel to smaller planets, hoping to increase the number of trades even though they may be a bit less profitable? Will you try to sell and buy on the same planet to save traveling time, but risk getting a worse deal on one of the transactions? or will you just do one thing, maximizing profit but wasting more time flying through space? Last, will you risk losing your cargo by selling it where it's illegal?

While updated files get approved, these are the links to download the rules which include dice you can print, cut and glue to play the game (note that the rules in the files section are outdated, with an incorrect table and a couple of minor mistakes):

- Rules in English: StarTradersLuck-Rules.pdf
- Rules in Spanish: StarTradersLuck-Rules-es.pdf

If you want to use stickers instead of building your own dice, here are two files:

- For 15mm dice - http://george.makasoft.net/StarTradersLuck-Stickers-15mm.jpg
- For 20mm dice - http://george.makasoft.net/StarTradersLuck-Stickers-20mm.jpg

There is a ZX Spectrum version of the game which can be used to play the game solo or with other human players available from World of Spectrum:

- http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0023679

A new expansion is in the works: Pirates and Bounty Hunters. This is the file with the alpha version of the rules and the new dice:

- http://george.makasoft.net/StarTradersLuck-Expansion-Rules.pdf

This game is an entry to the Print and Play Dice Game contest