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[AtionSong]

[PUZZLE] [SPEC] Wave 4 Risk Game

[Relish]

so does that mean successfull defences wouldnt be recorded?

(sorry im a risk-newbie!)

ps
are we assuming this'll give us the country where the cube is?

if so can we ty to work backwards from the uk or the usa?


sorry for so many Q's!

[PMAvers]

I had a completely random thought this morning. Probably far out there, but it never hurts to spec... and, I don't know if this has been shot down already. The mega-thread's way too... mega. Perhaps a compilation of all the ideas that have been shot down is in order as well?

[highlywildspeculation]

What if each string didn't represent a turn, but a specific country? The number before the first dash represents the player who started the game with it. (In the rules, in setup, player 1 picks a country and places a unit there, then player 2 chooses one, on and on until all 42 countries have been picked. That'd also explain why it stops with the last two strings being 1 and 2.) The section in the center may denote either attacks from that country towards either another player (Player 1, 2, 3, 4), or direction the attack is headed. The .5's would then be withdrawn attacks against that player (Or, maybe, it's a way to differentiate from multiple possible targets). The number after the last dash could then be the player who had control of the country at the end of the game.

Then, if we're given both the start and the end locations, the trick would be to figure out what country is what, and follow the troop movements. Maybe tracing the movement spells something out or is a hint.

Of course, that then leaves the matter of the dice and blobs.
[/highlywildspeculation]

[Mima]

Its great to hear people chatting about the Risk idea, but there is already a dedicated Risk thread (linky) so we probably ought to keep it all in one place, and yup PMAvers that is almost exactly what we have been thinking, although as we think they might be playing Team Risk there are other things to take into account. There is a situation in Team Risk where two team mates both have the same number of pieces in a territory, so neither actually owns it, and it is possible that this is what the 1.5, 2.5, and 3.5 numbers are. Here is a link to more about that.

The original thread (linky) is well worth reading though to see what ideas have been knocking around.

[chimera245]

This may actually already be solved

[The_Cube]

Hmmmm

[cmlobue]

Re: Hmmmm

[volvox]

Re: Hmmmm

[myf]