All the players should be able to easily reach the game board during game play. Return the card and shuffle the deck again. Then deal 6 cards to each player, face-down. Players should look at their cards, but keep them hidden from their opponents. Place the remaining deck of Play cards face down. This is the draw deck for the duration of the game.
Third, have each player select a Character card or randomly deal 1 Character card to each player. Each Character card is double-sided, allowing players an opportunity to select 1 of 2 personality choices. Any Character cards and pawns not used are returned to the game box. Fourth and depending on the number of players in the game, certain sections of the game board are removed from play. For example, in a 3-player game both the east and west wings of Lucky Mansion are no longer accessible to either the good Doctor or the players.
If playing with 6 or more players, all of the rooms in Lucky Mansion are open. Sight lines play two very important roles in the game. First, if a player is out of sight, they can draw Play cards. These cards are necessary to improve the Character card and to take out Doctor Lucky. Second, players cannot win the game unless they can kill the Doctor in private. Put another way, players cannot up and kill Doctor Lucky in the middle of a crowded room. For the most part, sight lines go perpendicular through all doors and stairways.
Character pawns in one room are visible to any other Character pawn in an adjacent room. This special section of Lucky Mansion does not allow Character pawn movement, but does allow a sight line to many different rooms.
The balcony also blocks the sight line between two other rooms, making it a good place to quietly hide and contemplate murder.
For example, consider the following illustration of the game board. Kill Doctor Lucky is played in turns with no set number of turns per game. The player can move their Character pawn from one Room to another. Moving from one adjacent Room to another is permissible through doorways. If the Character pawn is moved outside the Room to a Hallway or Stairway, it must be moved to any connected Room since Character pawns cannot stop their movement in the Hallway or on the Stairs.
There are several possible actions the player can take that depend on their Character pawn position in relationship to other Character pawns and the Play cards they have in their hand. Once played to the discard pile, the player moves their Character pawn accordingly.
If at anytime the Play draw deck is exhausted, shuffle the discard deck to create a new one. By default, each Character card has a 1 Kill point. But murder is not that easy. Each shamrock symbol is equal to 1 Luck point that cancels 1 Kill point. The goal is to have more Luck points than Kill points. Opponents can opt to pass, but do not have to give any reasons why they decide to do so.
If the combined total of Luck points is less than the total number of Kill points, the Doctor is no more. However, and more than likely the case during the first half of the game, the doctor will survive. If the Luck points are equal to or greater than the total Kill points, the doctor lives on. The would-be murderer then takes 1 of any of the cards played against them and places it underneath their Character card. After the player has completed all their card plays and moves, their turn is over.
The Doctor Lucky pawn is now moved to a new Room. Doctor Lucky follows a set path, moving from one number to another in sequential order. The only exception to this rule is if there are Room areas closed off. In which case, the Doctor Lucky pawn moves to the next highest numbered Room area, no matter where that might be.
If there are 2 or more Character pawns in the same Room as Doctor Lucky, the next player to take their turn is the next player in turn order sequence that is also in the same Room.
At which time, a new player will be given a turn since the next player to have a turn is based on the next player in turn order sequence after the last active player. The game continues until a player attempts to kill Doctor Lucky and their opponents cannot stop them.
This player wins the game. There are a few cases where some opponents incorrectly assume another opponent will add more luck only to painfully discover that their assumptions are incorrect, resulting in one very dead doctor. There are a number of game variants available to players to try. Here is a summary of those that will be available right out of the game box. Ghost players are moved by the live players and are used to help watch rooms, but they can also kill Doctor Lucky if they have a chance.
This means a ghost player could win the game, which would be weird. Doctor Lucky has a precocious cat named Patience that likes to roam around the mansion. What Patience does do is distract players, ruining their outbound sight line. Thematically speaking, Patience demands to be petted. This adorable cat can be moved by any player on their turn to any room in the mansion. This game variant flips the script and challenges the players to survive the undead Doctor Lucky who is stalking them through the house.
To learn more about Kill Doctor Lucky A number of the Child Geeks had played Clue before and were excited to play a different version of a game they enjoyed. For the most part, the only game rule that was difficult to grasp at first was the sight line. They understood how everything moved and how murder attempts were conducted, but it was the line of sight to each other that always threw them.
They eventually got it, but it took longer than I expected. It feels a lot more exciting and you have to be really sneaky. Nothing is more frustrating than having all of your opponents gang up on you to save the Doctor. I want to play it first with adults before I put it in front of my children.
They loved it. I played this as a kid and I still want to play it as an adult. Who knew that murdering Doctor Lucky could be so much fun for so long? After all the games were over, the Gamer Geeks very quickly voted to approve the game so they could get back to playing it. Card Shuffle Edition 3.
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