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!"

Comments

Wrong

[(trb001)]

An attacker with three or more attacking armies rolls three dice, one with two armies rolls two dice, and one with only one army rolls one die. A defender with two or more armies rolls two dice, and one with one army rolls one die.

Already, they're wrong...as an attacker, you have to have more armies than dice, i.e. you have to have 4 armies to roll 3 dice. The article already lost my confidence, every true Risk player knows this.

--trb

Diplomacy

[ggambett]

Doesn't anyone play Diplomacy? It's much more interesting. No dice involved, no randomness at all.