Take A Little Risk

You can't take over the world from the comfort of your own home on some Saturday night when you happen to be feeling a little bored.  Unless, of course, you have a few friends around that you can challenge to a game of Risk.

Distributed by Parker Brother, Risk is a strategic board game where players are given their own armies and have a chance to launch a quest to take over the world.  The game board is a Napoleonic-ear map where there are 42 territories on 6 continents.  The player that controls all of the territories at the end of the game is victorious.  Created originally by movie director Albert Lamorissee, the game made its debut in France in 1957, but it has been taking the rest of the world by storm ever since.

Your hope for world conquest can include as few as 2 or as many as 6 players.  Each game comes equipped with six sets of differently colored armies with infantry, cavalry, or artillery tokens.  Attacks are carried out by each player rolling dice, the higher number being the victor.  Other game play includes fortifying strongholds, building armies, or attempting to create alliances.  However, at the end of the game only 1 player will be left standing and all alliances will have been broken.  Enjoyed for all the strategy twists and turns, as well as the luck of the roll, Risk is a game that has people coming back to play it again and again. It is never the same game twice.