Risk (game)

Risk is a board game which is played with 2 to 6 players each with different coloured army men.

The main aim of the game is to complete the mission the player gets in the beginning of the game. These missions can differ from conquering or dominating parts of the world, to kill an other player or to hold a number of regions with a specific amount of units on each region.

Beginning

At the start of the game a player shuffles and deals out all of the cards. Each cards has either a country or a territory on it. When each player receives their cards, they put a soldier on their countries or territories. After they do this, they get a number of soldiers, cavalries and cannons to spread around according to which continent they want to conquer first. Then they hand their cards back and they put them all face-down on top of each other. Then the game starts.

Attacking/Defending

Roll the red dice to attack and the white dice to defend. At the end of each turn, pick a card. With this card look at the country or territory and the soldier, cavalry or cannon. If someone conquers the country or territory on the card it belongs to him. For every country a player owned, they get two extra soldiers.

1 Cannon is equal to:

• 10 soldiers
• 2 cavalries
• 5 soldiers and 1 cavalries

1 Cavalry equals-

• 5 soldiers

World countries

There are many countries and territories involved such as the following, which can change depending on the version:

• North America
  • Alaska
  • Alberta
  • Ontario
  • Western America
  • Eastern America
  • Quebec
  • Central America
  • Greenland
  • Northwest America

• South America
  • Brazil
  • Venezuela
  • Peru
  • Argentina

• Australia
  • Western Australia
  • Eastern Australia
  • Indonesia
  • Papua New Guinea

• Europe
  • Ukraine
  • Scandinavia
  • Iceland
  • Great Britain
  • Northern Europe
  • Western Europe
  • Southern Europe

• Asia
  • Yakutsk
  • Siberia
  • Kamchatka
  • Irkutsk
  • Ural
  • Japan
  • Mongolia
  • China
  • Middle East
  • India
  • Siam
  • Afghanistan

• Africa
  • East Africa
  • Egypt
  • Congo
  • Madagascar
  • South Africa
  • North Africa

Risk (game) Media

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  A representation of the Risk game board, showing the different territories, an approximation of their borders, and an approximation of their usual coloring, the asterisk denoting the missing link in the 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition.

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  Example of matching up attacking (red) and defending (white) dice; in this dice roll, the defender loses two armies.

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  The Risk game board as a graph with intercontinental routes in grey and the asterisk denoting the route missing in the 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition