# Risk (the board game) strategies/hints/tricks/tips.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/risk-the-board-game-strategies-hints-tricks-tips/224369>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 14, 2004, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/risk-the-board-game-strategies-hints-tricks-tips/224369 "2004-01-14T06:32:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/risk-the-board-game-strategies-hints-tricks-tips/224369/21 "2004-01-16T06:47:43Z")

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dump everything into **australia** and claim it for your own during the beginning army allocation, then use it to fund your expedition elsewhere on the globe. it has only one entrance distanced from everyone else so it’s easy to defend on a low budget.

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**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/risk-the-board-game-strategies-hints-tricks-tips/224369/22 "2004-01-16T07:47:36Z")

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The problem with Australia is, as somebody else said, whoever owns Thailand’s going to be dumping armies in there just for spite. It’s too easy to get bottled up in Australia and the armies aren’t that great for the defensive costs.

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**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/risk-the-board-game-strategies-hints-tricks-tips/224369/23 "2004-01-16T09:08:53Z")

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i’d always thought what i did was common - occupy australia with the largest army in the world sitting on thailand, practically spilling over into china and india.

(provided you’re not playing the 12 army limit rule of course)

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**Author:** ![NE\_Texan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e99b99/32.png) [@NE\_Texan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NE_Texan)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2004, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/risk-the-board-game-strategies-hints-tricks-tips/224369/24 "2004-01-19T20:19:59Z")

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> [@cowgirl](#):
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> I thought they came with the game.
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> At the beginning of the game everyone draws a card. They say things like “Destroy all the red troops. Or, if you are red, conquer 24 countries” or “Occupy Africa or Asia” or “Get two armies in 18 countries” or something.

Mission cards are not in the version of the game I have. Of course, I’ve had this copy for a few years (ahem, decades). In my son’s LOTR version, there’s something like mission cards, but completing the “mission” doesn’t win the game, it just gets you some extra armies. So I asked local experts (my son and his friends). The edition with the mission cards is a more recent revision, but they couldn’t tell me more than that.

Sounds interesting, though.

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