Risk
Risk
Smins wrote:
Risk
When I read the thread title, this was the first game that came to mind. I finally learned how to play in high school and it is now my favorite board game.
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I always got disappointed with Risk b/c the box looked so cool and the game was so boring.
Backgammon. When I was in 3rd grade, one of my cousins transformed into Joe Backgammon at the first family gathering he attended after starting college. I thought it was a needlessly complex rip-off of checkers or Chinese checkers. At least chess had cool-looking pieces (horses, castle towers, et al), thus making it a worthy difficult-to-understand game.
Of all Risk's faults, boring is not one of them. It can ruin friendships like no other game. You gotta play it with near strangers or best friends, anything in between is dangerous.
Bored Pieces wrote:
Backgammon. When I was in 3rd grade, one of my cousins transformed into Joe Backgammon at the first family gathering he attended after starting college. I thought it was a needlessly complex rip-off of checkers or Chinese checkers. At least chess had cool-looking pieces (horses, castle towers, et al), thus making it a worthy difficult-to-understand game.
Yeah, I never really got backgammon either.
I've played 2 games of Risk so far with my 7 and 9 year old sons. My 7 year old won the first one, and I just won the 2nd one after about 3 hours of playing. Great game, but it can be so frustrating when you start losing (especially to a 7-year old!).
Also, my 9 year old seems to know how to play chess. I can neither confirm nor deny his knowledge-level as I don't know how to play. He's pretty good at cribbage though (which I didn't learn until I was in my 30s), so I guess it's possible he picked up chess from one of his classmates as he claims.
Bottom line I guess, my kids are getting pretty exposed to a lot of board/card games at an early age. They love to play!
Curious Person wrote:
Of all Risk's faults, boring is not one of them. It can ruin friendships like no other game. You gotta play it with near strangers or best friends, anything in between is dangerous.
Just ask Seinfeld's Kramer and Newman:
"Know what the Ukraine is? It's a sitting duck. A road apple, Newman. The Ukraine is weak. It's feeble. I think it's time to put the hurt on the Ukraine."
"I come from Ukraine. You not say Ukraine weak."
"Yeah, well we're playing a game here, pal."
"Ukraine is game to you?! How 'bout I take your little board and smash it!"
"Ukraine is game to you?!"
What's sad is I'm 25 now -- and I still have absolutely no idea how to play Risk or Backgammon.
When I was really young and playing Candyland, when the game instructed me to draw a card, I literally turned the card over and used a pencil to sketch a card. At the time I was puzzled by this aspect of the game. A few years later I realized how clueless I was at the time. Nobody who I played with ever questioned it either.
Mille Bornes
We played it a few times a year, but I never had a clue what I was doing. It's not a kids game, but I still hate it as an adult. Someone gave me the game a few years ago and I regifted it.
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Curious Person wrote:
Of all Risk's faults, boring is not one of them. It can ruin friendships like no other game. You gotta play it with near strangers or best friends, anything in between is dangerous.
This ^ is very true. I can't think of a more brutal game.
I used to love to play (teens through 30's). Now I either avoid it entirely or try to make sure the other guy wins (without being too obvious about it).
You know the game well.
Curious Person wrote:
Of all Risk's faults, boring is not one of them. It can ruin friendships like no other game. You gotta play it with near strangers or best friends, anything in between is dangerous.
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Smins wrote:
Risk
I was a freekin' teenager when this game was invented so ya Risk is a board game I did not know how to play as a child!