RISK
Created by French filmmaker Albert Lamorissee in 1957, the war strategy game originally released as Conquest of the World. In 1959, Parker brothers published it in an English version.
Ip to six players amass armies on a political map of the world and attempt to capture territories from each other. Last one standing wins.
This was a particular favorite of mine, especially in high school and college where we had near all-night wars. It would go fast at first, but as soon as only three players remained it slowed down. No two "generals" wanted to go to war because the third would get too strong.
I was surprised that Stratego wasn't on the list. I liked this one even better than Risk.
SCRABBLE
Alfred Mosher Butts, an unemployed architect from Poughkeepsie, NY, invented the word game during the Great Depression, by combining chance with vocabulary skills used for crossword puzzles. More than 100 million games sold since introduced in 1949. They even have tournaments.
Never played it.
Loved Controlling Australia. Build Up Those Armies and No One Can get You. --Cooter
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