Re: [risk] two questions

[Eric Shultz <shultz@ici.net>]

John Williams wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Douglas Zander wrote:
> > I know these questions may seem a little silly or stupid but I was taught that there are no "stupid" questions.


There are no stupid questions!  There are, however, silly 
questions.

Which would you rather stick up your nose; a salamander or a 
newt?


Anyway, to be on topic, I hadn't even thought about making 
deals.  I was so excited to be playing Risk I forgot to stab 
people in the back.  

The only etiquette I would suggest is that the back stabbing 
not carry over between games.  For example, (because a game 
geek always has to have a "for example") me and five other 
friends used to play Risk quite often.  Once I won three 
games in a row, by a large margin.  For the next several 
games, it was understood that everyone was to kill me before 
doing anything else.  I was eliminated very early in the 
next few games.  So then I adopted the "touch me and you 
die" policy (I'm not kidding).  I still got eliminated 
early, but so did the first person to attack me.  So now it 
was two people who weren't having any fun.  After that, we 
took a break from Risk for a few months and just drank and 
watched MTV.  

Eric Shultz
Swift