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Kill Doctor Lucky is a board game designed by James Ernest and first published in 1996 by Cheapass Games. It reverses the familiar structure of a traditional murder mystery: instead of determining who killed a victim, players try to become the person who successfully kills the titular Doctor Lucky....
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Influential indie design with sharp humor and clever positioning, offset by dated production values, downtime, and occasionally awkward incentives.
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Pairs is a compact press-your-luck card game designed by James Ernest and Paul Peterson and published by Cheapass Games in 2014. Its standard deck contains 55 cards arranged as a triangular set of numbered ranks, with more copies of higher numbers than lower ones. Players draw and manage cards while...
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Clever pub-style press-your-luck design with designer reputation; niche distribution and lightness limit broad recognition.
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