Champions of Chance
move-through-all numbers colorful 20 minutes card-gameBattle your custom dice against those of other players and hope the odds are in your favor.
A Little White Die
numbers bluffing bidding vector kids-can-playGuess how often certain numbers appear or bluff your way through it. A variant on Liar’s Dice using cards.
Lucky Lions
20 minutes 3-6 players battle animals competitiveCreate more attractive zoos than others, but the animals that come out might be a bit … random.
Tossing Tiger, Rolling Dragon
chance battle 30 minutes thematic dicePrepare the right series of kung-fu attacks to win the war, while hoping your opponent didn’t roll the exact counter moves.
Folly & Fortune
cartoon 30 minutes competitive chance familyStop re-rolling your dice before fortune turns into folly … if you can resist the temptation for larger attacks.
Chaos Contract
competitive 2-5 players numbers dice thematicEnter Chaos Contracts with other lost souls and place the difference between major rewards and huge curses on a single dice roll.
Deceptidice
family chance bidding dice patternsBank on riskier and riskier combinations appearing on the secret dice, or call your neighbor’s bluff.
A series of games where you roll dice, create custom dice, the map is made of dice, or any other lucky mechanic using dice decks.
The Luck Legends
This is the overview page of this game collection. Click any of the links to visit a specific game. They are usually sorted based on simplicity (easy → hard).
The Dice Deck
All the games are completely unique experiences, with their own art, rules, ideas, and more.
The single thing they share is the same core mechanic I invented. I’ve dubbed it the Dice Deck. The idea is simple:
All dice in these games are represented by decks of cards. You can roll the die, so to speak, by shuffling this deck and then revealing the top card.
This is great! It allows the games to be easily print-n-play, as opposed to having to print and cut dice (which is never a fun experience). It also opens up millions of unique game ideas where you customize your die (by adding/removing cards), pick how you want to roll the die (by splitting your deck or only drawing from bottom), and more.
Background
I’ve always wanted to include more dice (or general randomizing mechanics) into my games. There’s a reason why a huge chunk of games includes such aspects. There’s a reason humans invented dice a looong time ago!
This was impossible, however, if I wanted to keep the games as accessible and easy to play as possible. It’s just a very bad experience to cut dice from paper and glue them together. Similarly, I don’t want to require people to have very specific objects at home (such as you need 8 dice in two colors) before they can play my games.
As I wondered about these constraints and how to solve them, I realized this ingenious solution: just use cards to simulate dice rolls.
I saw so much potential in this idea that I wrote down ~10 valid game ideas with it the same day. A few weeks later, I had time to work on the first few, and this project was born.
Credits
The fonts used are Lost (Leonest) for headings and Effloresce for body text. Some generative AI was used for illustrations in some of the games. Everything else—code, ideas, graphics, rules, etcetera—is entirely mine.
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