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[Mima]

Risk Numbers

[c1023]

I think someone pointed out a problem with this earlier:
There should be no strings of '1's, since if player 1 keeps the territory, there would not be another '1'. If they loose it, then the next number won't be '1'

[Mima]

My reasoning was that just because someone has fought a battle does not necessarily mean that they have lost it. I think that the repititions mean that someone attacked, but the person that already was in ownership of the territory successfully defended it against the attacker.

[sixsidedsquare]

I don't quite see what you mean with the .5's
As I understood it in risk, a territory has to have a single owner. You can't send troops into another persons territory and leave them there, you have to attack until either you pull back, loose all your attackers or defeat all the defenders.

[Mima]

According to the official rules (which I studied copiously after the purchase at Argos at the weekend!) there are several different versions of how to play Risk. The version known as Team Risk has two different teams who would sit alternately round the board, in our case this would mean 1 and 3 play together, and 2 and 4 play together. They can have pieces in their team members territory (friendly territories), and whichever of the team has the more pieces has ownership. It leaves a rather peculiar situation where if both team members have the same number of pieces neither has ownership. These would be the .5 situations I talked about above.

I hope this is clearer, but let me know - this is a link to the page about it on the Hasbro site.

Edit: My big question is: Does anyone have any ideas/tips on how to work the rounds backwards to find the start?

[a14ton25]

The stuck together pieces

[ixalon]

Wow... you're right - it does look like the eastern border of Argentina!
http://www.mapsofworld.com/argentina/argentina-outline-map.html

http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Puzzle_card_symbols#Wave_4_Meta_Information

[ampetrizzo]

Could the shapes make up the California coastline? You'd have to flip the dark shapes around some, but we don't know that they're necessarily in the right order to begin with.

[GreenWindmill]

Any chance each of the blobby bits is the outline of a feature within each risk territory?

So one could be a county in England, one a state in the USA, one a lake in Argentina, etc.

The 'working backwards from a complete risk board using the number strings as territory ownerships' idea seems plausible, but only if we can assign each shape and number string to a territory.

Haven't been able to look into this yet but I'll try to. Nothing jumps out as a familiar shape but I like to feel I'm contributing even if I'm not!

[ER123456]

I have been thinking about where our map might fit into the puzzle. We also have clues about "five fingers" and trees.

I think the map may be of a forest or a park with a forest in it.

Having looked at some maps of city parks, possibly the joins between the pieces are acrually roads through the park.

This would be a pointer to narrow down the search.

[ampetrizzo]

if it's a park, it's not central park or greenwich park (i spent all yesterday trying to make the pieces fit)

[Guin]

I noticed something I havent seen posted before - on card #136, Bling Bunny, there seems to be a partial image / die to the left of station B

It could be a castle - if you compare it to this picture you might see where I am coming from

http://www.elephantandcastle-newtown.co.uk/

However, I think it is probably a die possibly a 5 there is a distinct dot. Could we be looking for a second card to overlay here as we have done so with #058 and #060?

I also think there are several things we still havent linked / spotted. (this beening one of them)

EDIT - Fixed your URL BBCode - SG

[poozle]

Just had a look and I see what you are on about, I can't tell if it is anything but it definitely looks similar to a dice.

[atari5200]

 Risk is played with cards as well

[angadeon]

I believe the idea was that they were going by the risk board of 42 territories rather than the 44 risk cards.

*wild spec*
Tho if you think of the blips as territories on a card, we have 15 cards, which could make 5 sets valued at 4, 6, 8, 10, 12
~Is there a sequence related reason they only gave us 5 sets instead of 6? The sixth set would be worth 15, where the counting continues in 5's instead of 2's.