Day 26 - Risk

I bought Tyler the board game Risk for Christmas - awesome we love it! The only problem is, we were a little rusty on the rules and the instructions that came with the new version that we have now are very confusing and try to explain the three "new" ways to play all at the same time.

I googled more detailed rules and found a very interesting wikipedia article (linked to the title). I found the rules, most of which were familiar and some of which we didn't know existed. This wasn't the most interesting thing that I found. The most interesting part of the page was the list of all of the different versions of Risk.

The game came out in 1957 and was originally called La Conquête du Monde (The Conquest of the World) and since then there have been a whole lot of different limited edition and collectors versions. These include more than one Star Wars and Lord of the Rings versions. There is also one that is Ancient Greece where all of the territories are from Greek Mythology. There is one called "Castle Risk" where each player is guarding a castle rather than individual territories.

I think the coolest ones, and the ones that I would like to get are Risk Junior: Narnia and Risk 2210 AD. The Narnia one is based on the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The other one is a futuristic map that includes moon territories and water territories.

Tyler and I love this game and will definitely be looking into getting these other versions. If anyone has like...eight hours of spare time, feel free to come over and play!