The Boardgame known as Risk!

We meet to play Risk in the Duke of Wellington public house, Lechlade Road, Faringdon on Wednesdays at 20:00. We normally manage to play at least two games but this varies with the number of players. Sometimes so many players turn up that we have to use two boards: we've never had to use the third one that we keep in reserve (yet!)

We maintain a league table; so that less frequent attendees are not unduly penalized, we also rank the players by the average number of points scored per game; you can see the most recent standings here

The above table allots three points for a win; another scoring method is in parallel use. This allocates more points for the winner in a game with more than four players (and fewer for one with only three). Here's that league table, using the new scoring method. Note that we usually play a dummy hand if there are only three players, so the winner still gets 3 points!

We've been playing these games since 1995, originally in the Eagle Inn, and then shortly for a time in The Volunteer; we've now been using the Duke of Wellington since June 2001. The league tables were only started in 1996; these tables are listed below

Roll of Honour

Other Resources

Rip Wächter compiles very comprehensive statistics about the games we've played.

There's a excellent FAQ on the game, which is maintained at Nottingham University: Risk FAQ. The newsgroup rec.games.board carries intermittent postings about the game.

Another site is to be found in Italy. It even provides a means to meet other Risk! enthusiasts in your area. The Resources Page there contains many links to other Risk! web sites and lots more besides.

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