Is It Worth The Risk? Trivia Quiz

Answer: 6

The game comes with six different sets of armies, all of which are different colors. The choices are black, blue, green, yellow, red, and gray.
(Black is my personal favorite.)

Answer: 5

The soldier piece is worth one army, the horse is worth five, and the almighty cannon is worth ten. Those are the only three pieces available; hence, none are worth twenty.

Answer: Overseas borders between countries

Countries can only attack other countries with which they have borders. The dotted lines add extra borders to nearby countries that may be, for instance, islands.

Answer: 6

There are three steps to figuring out the number of reinforcements a player receives at the beginning of his turn: territory holdings, continents, and matches.

First, a player counts the number of territories he holds. Then he divides that number by three and always rounds down. In this case, 20/3=6.66. That number rounded down is six.

Next, a player looks to see if he holds any continents. The reinforcement bonus for continents is as follows:

North America: 5
South America: 2
Africa: 3
Asia: 7
Europe: 5
Australia: 2

Lastly, a player sees if he has any matches in his cards.
(A player receives a card after each turn in which he conquers another country. They have country pictures on them and pictures of the three pieces.)
A match consists of a Soldier-Horse-Cannon or a three-of-a-kind, such as a Cannon-Cannon-Cannon.
These matches are slid under the bottom edge of the board and under the number of reinforcements a player will get. The more matches that have been previously turned in, the more reinforcements the current match will be worth. (For instance, the first match is worth 4 armies and the second is worth 6. The last is worth 60.)

All of those numbers are added together to find the total number of reinforcements a player receives on his first turn!

Whew!

Answer: 2

The attacker gets as many dice as the number of armies he is attacking with, minus one. Therefore, he cannot attack with one army; he'd have no dice! The attacker may only roll up to three dice, however.

The defender gets as many dice as he has armies defending his territory, up to two.

In battle, both players roll their dice. Then the highest rolls of each player's throw are paired together. For each higher number in the pair, the winning player destroys one of the other player's armies, regardless of whether he is attacking or defending. Say the attacker rolls a 5-3-4 and the defender rolls a 5-3. You'd pair the pair of fives and the 4 and the 3 together. In this case, both the attacker and defender would lose one army. (Defenders win all ties!)

Answer: Deploy a certain number of armies on the board

There are two types of Risk: World Conquest and Mission. World Conquest involves eliminating players until one player remains and holds all territories on the board. This way of play takes hours. I like to play Mission Risk, though. In this way, each player is dealt a mission card with instructs that they must fulfil in order to win the game. There are twelve different missions, split into three different types:

Destroy a player:
"Destroy all Gray troops. If yours are the gray troops, then: Occupy 24 territories of your choice."
There is a card like this instructing the player to destroy any of the six colors (black, blue, green, yellow, red, or gray).

Capture a certain number of territories:
-"Occupy 24 territories of your choice."
-"Conquer 18 territories of your choice and occupy each with at least 2 armies."

Capture two continents:
-"Conquer the continents of Asia and Africa."
-"Conquer the continents of Asia and South America."
-"Conquer the continents of North America and Australia."
-"Conquer the continents of North America and Africa."

Answer: Russia

Russia is split into several countries spanning Europe and Asia. They include Ukraine, Ural, Siberia, Yakutsk, Irkutsk, and Kamchatka.

Answer: New Guinea

East Africa is, well, part of Africa and shares a dotted border with Middle East, of Asia.

Alaska, of North America, shares a dotted border with Kamchatka, of Asia.

Siam, of Asia, shares a dotted border with Indonesia, of Australia.

However, New Guinea only borders two other countries: Eastern Australia and Indonesia.

Answer: Egypt

Egypt only has four borders, ones with Southern Europe, Middle East, North Africa, and East Africa.

Ukraine, China, and Ontario, along with Southern Europe and Middle East all share the record for the number of borders, six.

Answer: Irkutsk

Mongolia includes the Korean Peninsula in Risk and therefore touches the ocean near Japan.
The Congo is a central African country that borders the South Atlantic.
Ural is another Asian country that has a small border with the Arctic in the North.

Irkutsk, part of actual eastern Russia, is blocked off from the Pacific by a small strip of the Kamchatka territory.

Thanks for playing! I hope it was worth the risk! ;)