I grew up playing a lot of D6 games which clearly have an element of luck in them, but came to the strong opinion before long that luck is a fairly meaningless term - often employed by the less skilled at the game to excuse them losing. On an individual roll of a dice whether its a 1 or a 6 is entirely luck dependent - and sometimes that bit of luck can change the game - but overall normally you "make your own luck". A skillful player will avoid having the whole game ride on one roll of the dice. Over time it always seems if you're losing that you've rolled a load of 1's and the opponent 6's but the reality is you'll have both rolled a similar number.

On a more philosophical level I believe luck to be even less meaningful in real life. Apart from gamblers we don't really roll a lot of dice in life, Chess (a game with no luck involved whatsoever) is a more apt analogy most of the time anyway - but even where luck is involved, once again it is what you did in the events preceeding and following the "luck" that determines how things go.

I don't believe there are people in this life who are generally "lucky" or "unlucky". We may have moments where it comes into play - and being sympathetic I might console someone as saying they were unlucky - but looking at life objectively I really do not believe at all that luck plays much of a role in our lives. What about you?