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Risk

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Last night I spent a picture-perfect evening on the patio with my two boys playing a somewhat civil game of RISK®. I realize that the serious gamer would consider RISK® to be ‘Ameri-trash’ because of its dependency on dice to settle a player’s fate but all things considered, the aptly-named Parker Brothers classic teaches simple strategy and consequence.

My oldest is so competitive when it comes to games. Any time I was on a lucky roll he would proclaim the game ‘stupid’ and accuse me of picking on him. No matter how many times I tried to explain to him that it takes no particular skill to throw sixes, he was convinced that it wasn’t luck. How quickly his attitude changed when I was the one begging for mercy. Once he and his brother allied with one another they pretty much ‘owned me’. It seemed that no matter how much mojo I threw on those dice I could do nothing but roll ‘cap gun’ ones to their ‘cannon’ fives and sixes. Stupid game!

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