Risk is a strategic board game, invented by French film director Albert Lamorisse and which first released in 1957 as La Conquête du Monde ("The Conquest of the World") in France. Risk is a turn-based game for two to six players played on a board depicting a map of the world which is divided into territories and continents. The primary object of the game is to eliminate all opposing players by occupying every territory on the board. Players control armies with which they attempt to capture territories from other players, with each encounter being determined by the roll of a dice. The player is re-enacting the role of an army leader attempting to take over the world with legions of soldiers.
It is considered the first war game to claim mainstream success. Following its success, the game has gone on to release licensed versions of the game, using the themes, characters and settings of various intellectual properties, from Star Wars to Halo Wars.
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