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Help My Game - RISK
calebb writes "RISK is a classic board game that's been around since 1959. This week, Science News posted an article titled 'Improving the Odds in RISK.' They mention that '...the chances of winning a battle are considerably more favorable for the attacker than was originally suspected.' Amazing! Risk is over 40 years old & nobody ever calculated the odds of winning a 5 vs. 5 battle!"
I thought the WPOR told Professor Falken that "the only way to win was not to play". Now we are learning that the way to win is to attack, attack, attack.
We always player nuclear RISK. Instead of just being able to cash in your cards, you could elect to use them to nuke the country they represented. It's even better when the players aren't sober; one broken treaty and Armageddon ensues...
"Already, they're wrong...as an attacker, you have to have more armies than dice,"
Indeed! Chalk this one up with the chess article that refers in passing to pawns moving in an "L" pattern, or the video game history article that talks about Pac-Man breaking bigger asteroids into little asteroids.
Next, Science News will publish an article about "Improving the Odds in Clue" that will tell us about good ol Colonel Ketchup in the mud room with the mastadon-leg as the weapon.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
It was in 1988, shortly after an event involving a certain famous hockey player switching teams.
The guy who had Western US and Alberta moved one army down from Alberta into Western US as a troop transfer.
Someone commented "There goes Wayne Gretsky".
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Computer Science graduates speak no English well. nor wright [sic].