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FAQs

What is the best strategy to win the Risk board game? ›

One key to victory is control over continents. Players that hold continents at the beginning of a turn get bonus reinforcements in an amount roughly proportional to the size of the continent (these bonuses will be detailed in the Rules section).

The gameboard is divided into 42 territories, which are grouped into continents: North America (yellow), South America (orange), Europe (blue), Africa (brown), Asia (green), and Australia (purple). Some territories are adjacent to each other, meaning they either share a border or have a sea-line connecting them.

If a player runs out of army pieces during the game, pieces of another color or other symbolic tokens (coins, pieces from other games, etc.) may be substituted to help keep track of armies.

If you have 5 or more cards, you MUST turn in a set. If you don't get another player's cards when you wipe him out, there is no way to get above 5 cards.

The great thing about Risk is that it is not a solved game. There is no one strategy that will guarantee you a win every time, letting you experiment with different strategies and techniques in order to play and win the game.

North America: North America is arguably the best continent. It gives the player 5 extra troops per turn and has just 3 borders. The bonus-border ratio is 1.66, the highest of all other continents, apart from Australia. Furthermore, the North American player can easily expand to South America and/or Europe.

Australia, also composed of four territories, is perhaps the best choice. Not only can it be taken in the first round—it, too, has only four territories, but it has but one border to defend. A player who takes Australia early on often holds it for the remainder of the game, collecting bonus armies all along.

If you choose not to attack, pass the dice to the player on your left. You may still fortify your position, if you wish (see page 10).

If the player was (found) hacking, they will be banned from RISK entirely. Although we try to warn new players who might not be aware of the rules, such a warning is not guaranteed.

The player to the left of the dealer has the first turn. He/ she counts the number of territories that they occupy with their armies. They are entitled to use one additional army from their box for each three territories that they occupy.

Can you move troops in Risk? ›

You can move the troops to an adjacent territory you control, or to any territory you control as long as you have troops in all the territories in between. Leave at least one army piece behind in the original territory.

If the total number of cards held by the attacker now equals six or more, he must turn in matched sets, claiming additional armies, placing them on his territories on the board, until he has four or fewer Risk cards remaining. This must be done immediately.

Statistically, if both the attackers and defenders are rolling the maximum number of dice, the attacker has the advantage. This means that, on average over time, you will lose fewer troops if you are the one attacking, rather than being attacked.

Australia. Australia, also composed of four territories, is perhaps the best choice. Not only can it be taken in the first round—it, too, has only four territories, but it has but one border to defend. A player who takes Australia early on often holds it for the remainder of the game, collecting bonus armies all along.

Use just the bare minimum of troops needed to deny your foes the continent bonus for Asia and Africa, The Rest goes into NA with a stronghold in your back. Keep denying continent bonus and spread out through the Americas before closing in from Brazil into Africa. At this point, you have the troops superiority.