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Suggestions for expanding the article[edit]

1. Not adding to Gameplay or Strategy sections

2. History is anemic; the game is issued and played in many foreign countries, which ones, and how did it get there?

3. Is there a governing body that sanctions competitions and issues titles? Where is it headquartered? What are the titles and qualifications for them? Who holds or has held them?

4. What competitions are there (Mind Olympics?), how often are they held, where?

5. What are the SIGNIFICANT differences between the themed variants? Not details here, but fundamental character of the games. Why would you want one of these instead of the standard version?

6. Is the Franklin mint version interesting?

7. Are the any notable Risk players (maybe chess grandmasters who play risk, professors, PHD game scholars, TV personalities, ?)

8. If it's one of the most popular board games in history, what's the marketing/sales data show?

It's going to take some digging from here, not just transliterating a game manual or copying elements from a book on playing the game. Sbalfour (talk) 03:13, 30 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

No thank you, these are mostly opinion based and would interest absolutely none — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.199.192.104 (talk) 22:22, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

- - I played in official Parker Brothers RISK tournaments run in Pennsylvania ...in the 1990s. If that helps/points anyone in the right direction.

Chesspride216.144.161.51 (talk) 23:24, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

- - I should add that in the official tournaments -- alliances were forbidden. Even talking at the table (other than to indicate attacks/ask for a card) was forbidden. It was a challenge to make a face or express an opinion non-verbally. Chesspride216.144.161.51 (talk) 23:38, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

In popular culture.[edit]

I can't believe that the episode in Seinfeld where Kramer and Newman plays Risk isn't mentioned in the article! 194.132.239.157 (talk) 18:36, 19 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Map typo[edit]

The map at the top of the page has Yakursk instead of Yakutsk. Is this fixable?

2601:200:C002:70D0:896:AA5E:F4A2:3972 (talk) 04:36, 9 March 2022 (UTC) nitpicker of mild things[reply]

Mention the Brazilian game "War" by the company Grow[edit]

War is a Risk clone that made much success in Brazil and IIRC was the origin of the secret mission cards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aaslopes (talk • contribs) 15:19, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

ERROR in early section

This is what the section says The first new version of Risk was released in 1986. Called Castle Risk, it featured a map depicting 18th-century European castles instead of a map of the world, and it was a financial disappointment.

But this is not so. The map depicts 18th (or 19th) century Europe -- not a castle to be found on the board. The GAME PIECES include a castle -- that players place on a territory. Chesspride216.144.161.51 (talk) 01:35, 2 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The number associated with each country[edit]

In both representations of the map (geographical and graph) there is a number associated with each country, but the significance or origin of that number isn't explained. Is there some source where that is explained? Otrebus (talk) 16:16, 26 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]