The game Risk is like taking a nap. It's fun when you begin; it's also enjoyable to experience alongside people you're comfortable with; and if you spend too much time partaking in it, you'll get a headache and feel worse than you did before you began.
The trick: don't aim to win.
Unless you have more patience than a seventy year old retelling his latest expedition to the mailbox, don't attempt to remain in the game long enough to win. Five hours later, you'll be angry that you control three continents and can't stop now because you're one man away from conquering your neighbor, Great Britain. You'll be so tired that you'll just go to bed pissed that you wasted moments of your life you will never get back, knowing you just acquired the latest new cold virus from lack of sleep, and wishing your eyes didn't feel like they fell out hours ago from staring at the board while your posture deteriorated and your thighs permanently reformed into the shape of the metal chair you were sitting on.
New goal: mess with all other players.
It is soo much more fun to keep anyone from winning, while not actually winning yourself. Picture it: Suzy has all of Africa and Asia under her belt, while you hang out in North America, pretending that the rest of the world doesn't matter to you (forgive the pun...hehe). Then bam! You swoop in through Greenland and Iceland to take over the world, only to leave such a small army in your tracks that you can't actually maintain any sort of stronghold.
It's so good. You won't win but you sure f+++ed with Suzy's plans, huh?! Yeah! Isn't that more fun than winning?!
I played Risk for the first time tonight, and found this strategy to be highly fulfilling. You can quit whenever you want. Simply cause mass chaos, then leave your soldiers vulnerable to attack from all sides. You get your butt kicked and then you go to bed with a smile on your face (and the knowledge that the other players will continue to participate until they're delirious with fatigue and can no longer even enjoy the satisfaction of winning).
While you count your sheep and drift peacefully off into sleepy-land.
Yes.
That is the way to play Risk.
Goodnight...
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