Risky Business

Church friends came over to my house to play the game of RISK tonight. It was fun. I had not played this game for about 7 years. This brought back a lot of my younger memorizes. Risk is a fun game only if we can get 5-6 people playing. I used to love it that much that I bought the whole game. However, because of there is a lack of interested friends, my risk has never been opened and it is damaged during the flood of my storage at the UHaul’s.

I have never been a lucky person and that’s one of the reasons why I don’t believe in luck. In fact, in my personal Christian viewpoint, nothing is coincidence because God is in control. There is no such thing as luck, and everything is within God’s desire. I struggle that idea whenever I need to teach Econometrics/Statistics. I am preaching probability that I don’t really believe in.

At the beginning of the game, my pieces of land are so bad that I eventually end up with only two pieces of remote lands and I was in extreme danger because I have less than a dozen soldiers left. I knew that I would lose if I didn’t attack someone. With the help of turning in 3 cards, I got an extra 30 soldiers. Surprisingly, I was able to conquer the whole Europe and eliminate one other opponent. It was quite a uphill battle. Five of us were playing and we managed to finish within 2.5 hours. I guess we are all furious with each other and attack whenever we have chance. I suppose I was guilty of eliminating the first player, and after the attack, as expected, I was the second to go…

The Odds of playing risks favors the offensive players slightly: ( see http://www.dandrake.com/risk.html)