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Where to find and play Risk online free with no download plus a Risk game download to play against friends online

Everybody loves the old classic multiplayer world domination Risk strategy game right? Well, I do and it just so happens that I have found 15 great places to play Risk on line, the first place is where you can download risk to your PC to play against the computer. It’s called ‘Lux Delux’ and you can find details on where to download it below.

The second place which is called ‘Conquer club’ is a great little site where lots of people play risk online free against each other.

Play Risk online site details

The first option is more suitable for you if you want to actually download risk free, the downloadable Risk PC game version does have its restrictions due to the fact that you cannot play against others online and neither do you have access to all maps (there are around 350 maps at time of writing) to play on unless you buy the full version, on the upside it is very cheap.

The full version of this Risk simulation can be bought for a small fee and then you are free to play online risk against friends and others who also own the full version, Definitely worth a look if you are a die-hard Risk boardgame fan.

The second site which is know as ‘Conquer club’ should sway you more if you want a play Risk online free no download option, you can get involved in up to 4 games at a time with the free membership but if you decide to upgrade to the full version at a later date you can play in as many games as you like which also include speed Risk online games.

I find this site ideal for myself as I do not really want to get involved for hours at a time when I play the game of Risk online, I just prefer to take my turns over a cup of hot coffee in the morning before work or mull over my move options with a beer in the evening. The other positive which I like about this site is the active forum where you can get involved with chat about Risk strategy with other experienced players.

Whichever method you would prefer, both are fun and great versions and also in my opinion the best online Risk games you can find on the internet.

Where to Play Free Risk online (Some do require you to buy the game to get full access)

   1. Lux Delux Risk download for Mac or Windows (Online or against computer, you can also download a Risk demo game)
   2. Conquerclub.com

      Play Risk Online Lux Delux Play Risk Online Free
      Lux Delux Screenshot
   3. Riskattack.com
   4. Strategygamenetwork.com
   5. Pogo.com
   6. Ewarzone.com (Hasbro Risk 2)
   7. Domination.sourceforge.net (Free online Risk download)
   8. Landgrab.net
   9. Globalsiege.org (Free Risk download)
  10. ‘Conqueror’ Facebook Risk application
  11. Artofwar.cc
  12. Gamescene.com
  13. Kavasoft.com (Risk for Mac)
  14. Windowsgames.co.uk (Online Risk download, again with a free risk demo game)
  15. Mission Risk (Downloadable Risk freeware game, Google it to find a shareware site in your area)
  16. ‘Attack!’ Facebook Risk application (Free Risk game on Facebook, Discontinued but perhaps it will return?)

scrabble cheat

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Today I was thinking about Scrabble and a comment left after my previous post find a word for scrabble saying that Scrabble is kind of boring game. I was wondering if this game was getting old and needed some fresh new ideas to extend the life of the game (even though I think this board game will never die). So just for the fun of it, I started listing a few new game element they could add to the board game.

The first thing I came up with is kind of a scrabble cheat, that would let you reuse a word a bit like we do with hooks but instead of adding letters a the end or at the beginning of the word, you would add a scrabble letter on top of another one to form a new scrabble word.

The scrabble word cheat

Ok the name is not that hot, but images will show my idea better. So let's say we have the word "MUG". You could transform this scrabble word into "BUG". This


(This word worth 6 points)


(This new word would also worth 6 points)

This example above is only the most basic case of using the scrabble word cheat. You could do something better like the following scrabble word example where we replace two letter of the same word. Replacing scrabble letter "M" by a "B" and letter "G" by a "Y".


(This new word would worth 8 points)

But even better, you would replace a letter to form a new word, but you would put a completly new word on the scrabble board at the same time.





(The total point scored here would be 10 points)

Stay tuned for more ideas, I have more on my list but time is missing a little.

Check out my other post on Scrabble

Scrabble word finder
Nice little tools that are very handy when you need to find word in a very specific context or simply to make sure your opponent is not trying to invent new words.

Carcassonne strategy

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What a great board game! I tried Carcassonne for the first time this weekend. It took me a game or two to fully understand the rules and start building some strategies. We played Carcassonne: Inns and Cathedrals. For those who never played this game, the goal is to get control of cities, roads, cloisters and farms. To do that, you need to put your pawns in strategic locations to make sure you will have control on the game elements. The added game element in the Carcassonne expansion "Inns and Cathedrals" are the Inns near a lake that makes a road counts double points. The Cathedrals also gives more points when you finish building a city containing one. The major difference in the expansion is that you need to finish the road or the city containing the new elements to score the points.

What I would like to do in this first post about Carcassonne board game strategy, is to show you how I played the game the first time. In other post, I will try to improve my game strategy and tell you what was worth trying and what was not. So here's a description of my first game of Carcassonne.

Carcassonne strategy in game #1

In this first game I was always impatient to score some points and put some meeple in play. Almost every time I was drawing a new Carcassonne tile I wanted to add something on it. So my first few tile (yellow Carcassonne meeples) looked like this.


So at this point in the game, I already feel like I'm losing some ground, but hey, it's my first game and I want to score big on that road. My brother (red meeples) already have a Carcassonne farmer and one city under control (for now). While the game was progressing, my brother was still putting some farmer here and there making sure to control the entire map. The way the roads were shaping up in the city of Carcassonne, there where no place to put more farmer, so I decided to focus on making large city. I've learned the hard way that trying to build big in this board game could lead to a bad scenario. Here's what I'm talking about.



In the picture above, you can see my meeples trying to control this "big" city. The tile numbered 1, 2 and 3 are mine and the tile number 4 was the last tile placed by my brother. This last Carcassonne tile was forcing me to add at least three other city tile (if lucky) to close this city. I think only ten tiles were left on the pile when he made that move. First mistake, trying to build a big Carcassonne city is not a smart move when there's few tile left, especially that killer tile filled with city dirt. Second mistake, put too many meeple for nothing, my brother was not going to fight for this city.


Strategy results

If I make a very quick overview of my first game, I would say that I should have pay more attention to the farmer. My lack of experience cost me a lot of point by not controlling any city with my Carcassonne farmers. I was playing heads up with my brother, so I'm guessing that farmers are very important when there's only one opponent. Time will tell me if I was right. Another thing I noticed about my play, was my rush to put meeples on the map. When I saw my brother taking over all the grounds with farmer, I was short on Carcassonne pawns to try fighting for some ground. And like I wrote above, trying to build too big is a risky business.

This is the tile that starts it all and I can't wait to play some more great games with the board of Carcassonne. In fact, I already played more than one game this last week-end and in my next post, I will explain how my second game went, so don't miss Carcassonne strategy game 2. This time, we were six player trying to fight the roads, inns, cathedral, cloister and farms ob rge land of Carcassonne!

My other post on Carcassonne

More Carcassonne strategies
Other strategy for other type of Carcassonne board games. In this post, I revealed my experience with this game when playing with more than two opponent.

Carcassonne round-up
Post containing a summary of all my Carcassonne strategy.

Carcassonne more strategy

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Before I start analizing this second board game of Carcassonne, let me describe the setup. Instead of playing heads-up with my brother like in Carcassone strategy game 1, we are now playing with the entire family. So six player playing Carcassonne with the expansion “Inns and Cathedrals”. My sample of game is still very low, so I’m still a green player (so are my meeples this time) and I don’t really have a good strategy.

What I’ve learn from the first game was to take care of farms to make sure someone else will not control everything. Try not to build to big in late stages of the game. So from there, here’s how my second game of Carcassonne went.

Carcassonne strategy in game #2

Right from the start of the game I put one meeple has a farmer on the game board. I don’t want to repeat my mistake from the previous game. Now I need to wait my turn to come and watch Carcassonne building up in ways that I don’t really like. Other players are trying to put some farmer here and there on pieces of land that don’t connect yet. Trouble is at the horizon, everybody seems to want a little control there.

(Carcassonne player rushing to put farmer)

Finally it’s my turn and like the other Carcassonne players I want to increase my presence in the fields, so I took my big green meeple and put it down on a tile that is not yet connected to the rest of what I call “the main battlefield” (see picture above). Turns are passing by and I still don’t have a direct connection to the rest of the world. In fact, I need to get one of those tile with a cloister and a single road to it. You probably guessed right that I didn’t get this tile, that someone else did and he didn’t put it where I was planning to!

Carcassonne map (waiting for cloister tile)

I’m currently without my big Carcassonne meeple and there’s absolutely no way to get it back. If I count the number of meeple controlling the big battlefield, I can already figure out that I will not score points with my farmer. I have one meeple on a cloister that will not be completed before the end of the game. I have my big one and two other meeple in the field trying to farm for nothing, so all I have left is a few Carcassonne pawns to help me score on building city and roads. I didn’t really pay attention to cities since I was trying to save some resources to farm, so no big points there. I made a couple of points after the construction of a road (without an inn).

The game is over, I finished in last position. My two brothers and I tried the same strategy. We all went for the farms and ended up splitting almost all the points. My sister-in-law got stuck building large cities (another player strategically put a cathedral in two of her city, hehe) and my father tried a mix of road and city leading him to second place. The big winner was my mother. From beginning to end, she focused on roads and cloister. She scored double points for finished road and plenty more for uncompleted ones.

My other post on Carcassonne

Carcassonne strategy
My first game of this great board game, heads up with my brother. Find out what strategy came out of this game

Carcassonne round-up
Post containing a summary of all my Carcassonne strategy.

Z-Rox

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A very cool game made by a friend of mine. I know it's not a board game but I thought it might interest some of you. It's a 1D game!!

How do you play a 1 dimension game? Well that's a good question. ZRox is showing you a small flash video sequence where you can see a black horizontal line streching, shrinking or splitting in parts. It's like the green light of a scanner hovering over an image. The line is black only when there's something under. Look at this video to understand everything.

There is a bunch of difficulty level to keep you addicted. There is more than letter to find, it can also be objects like a spade or a diamond (oops, sorry for the spoiler).

Enough said, try it by your self!

Blokus strategies

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My first strategy at Blokus is the "Get rid of the bigger pieces at the begining" strategy, but that, I already mentioned it in my previous Blokus blog post about Blokus strategy. This approach is probably your safest way to get rid of a maximum of Blokus squares but you also need to know where to lay them down on the Blokus board.

So, my second strategy at the game of Blokus would be "Race for Blokus board center" wich consist of moving towards the center and my opponent has fast as possible. Why is that? Well, you want to be in a situation where you will have plenty of room to place you pieces later on. Let me illustrate what I'm writing about. In this picture, you can see the Blokus board with two opponents. The red one decided to go straight south while the blue Blokus opponent went straight to the center of the grid. It's early in the game but still, I can see a clear advantage for the blue player. The green curve shows where I would lay down my next blokus squares and that lead me to my third blokus strategy, the "blokus block strategy".

The "Blokus block strategy" consist of making sure your opponent wont be able to go through your walls. In the previous strategy, the green curve kind of represent where I would build my Blokus walls next. Let's check out a small portion of the Blokus's board grid to setup a good and a bad way to place the pieces to prevent an opponent's intrusion through your walls.

So if you look at the picture, I've shown two ways to place a five square piece that look like a "U". In the first situation on the right, you can see that the red player is trying to much to go around the blue player and he places it in a way that is opponent won't have any difficulty running trough the red player's barricades! On the left side of the Blokus game board, you see a much better way of protecting your ground. With this setup, the blue player would need a one square piece to go through. There's only one blokus piece that would let you in with this way of laying down the squares. On the other hand (the example on the left), any Blokus piece could be place to go through the red wall. So, if you manage to reproduce this Blokus block strategy at two, three or more places on the board, your opponent will soon be trapped and confined on his side of the fence! This blokus tactic with the "Race for Blokus board center" strategy should improve your overall score at Blokus.

In my next post, I will share more Blokus strategy. To give you an idea of it, think about this: Is it always the good choice to put all five square Blokus pieces first? The answer... NO!

Blokus basic strategy
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More Blokus Strategies

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"Small blocking goods"
Let me explain the reasons why I said that "It's not always the right move to put the biggest Blokus piece remaining in your tray", in my previous Blokus strategy's post. Blokus board game is like building the tallest walls to prevent people from playing inside your backyard. So, if putting a larger block on the grid will exposed your self to a possible enemy intrusion inside your protected territory, than it's not a good idea to lay down the big Blokus block.You always need to keep in mind that your primary goal should be to trap your opponents inside a small portion of the board, leaving some free space to put a mximum of pieces on it.

To do so,you need to apply some of my previous Blokus strategies and keep in mind that you should prefer to block other Blokus player, even with smaller pieces, than let them in. Look at the picture on the right and you will understand what I mean. The red player is about to play and could possibly place another five square block but instead he chooses to use a three square blokus part to block the blue player from progressing inside his territory (#1). With that move, the opponent will be forced to place is next piece higher leaving plenty of room to the red player (#2.


"Take a Peek"
This strategy is probably for expert Blokus player but nonetheless it could help improve everybody's overall winning stats even if they don't apply it constantly. It consist of taking a look once in a while at the remaining Blokus pieces of your opponent. I don't think it's cheating, it's simply trying to see the future! The goal of doing that is to plan ahead your next move.

Blokus basic strategy
Learn how to play the board game Blokus.
Start to play with good basic strategies.

Blokus strategy inside
A race to the center, a strategy that will give you an edge. The Blokus block strategy, keep your opponent away!

Monopoly Junior

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Since Easter, I've been playing Monopoly Junior every day with my daughter. She's almost four years old and she's already into one of my favorite board game of all time, Monopoly (well, a kid version of it). I'm always fascinated by my kids and the speed at with they can get the grasp on something new. After three or four game, she knew all the main attraction on the board and was hoping to put a kiosk on it. The notion of money is a little bit more difficult to assimilate at this age but I think its better this way for the moment!

What matters at this age is more the color of things Following that rule, she will always prefer purple instead of yellow and if I land on the unoccupied balloon stand, she will try to trade her helicopter stand for my balloon stand immediately!

The reason why this kid version of monopoly is so easy to play with my daughter is because they removed a lot of decision taking (which is difficult at this age believe me). For example, if you land on a spot that don’t belong to anyone, you have to buy it.

Also, if you land on the modified version of the jail of the classic monopoly game, you don’t have to pass your turn. Monopoly Junior railroads are simply a “Throw the dice again” instead of a more complicated calculation based on how many railroad you own.

When you land on someone else monopoly property, you simply pay the price written on the board. If you own all property of the same color, then you multiply the price by two. So, it’s simple mathematics and simple rules really.

The Junior Monopoly I played is based on the theme of an amusement park. All properties are related to that theme. For example, you have the monopoly junior Haunted House, the Roller Coaster, the Balloon Stand, the Water Slides, the Ferris Wheel… The game board of monopoly junior has a lot of attractive drawings to represent the various monopoly properties.

You can play with three other kid (or adult) , everybody uses a different color to identify their self and the property they own on the monopoly board (another good simplification in Monopoly Junior).

In my next post, I will talk a little bit more on the monopoly junior Chance card and explain how kids can learn a little monopoly strategy.