Paquito wrote:

- More observational bias: If you grew up playing Risk as a board game, you should realize that you have probably played many, many more games of Risk online than you ever have in real life. You're probably observing more rolls playing online than an avid Risk Board game player would observe during a lifetime of playing. As such, you're going to encounter statistical outliers much, much more often.

Yeah, I've probably played a few more online games than real-life games, but not by much..

Back in college I think I took a course where all we did way play Risk.

Hmm, or was it that I missed an entire course because I was playing Risk?

Whatever..

M57 wrote:

Toto wrote:

Just lost 12 armies in a row vs 2 without killing 1 (  http://www.wargear.net/games/view/47264 moves 589+). How does it compare ?

~0.3%

250:1

Ten times more likely to happen.

Thanx M57.

I understand Paquito was not aiming me, but I can say I was not complaining at all as I had such an advantage in this game that I could handle this without any risk of losing the game. I was just curious.

Toto wrote:

I understand Paquito was not aiming me, but I can say I was not complaining at all as I had such an advantage in this game that I could handle this without any risk of losing the game. I was just curious.

My last point was tongue in cheek :)

The turn started out 60 v 60. I lost all of mine while my opponent had over 40 left over :(

What are the odds of that? On the antastic board, so regular dice, nothing fancy.

bdf101 wrote:

The turn started out 60 v 60. I lost all of mine while my opponent had over 40 left over :(

What are the odds of that? On the antastic board, so regular dice, nothing fancy.

That's phenomenally bad luck.   ..about ~500,000 : 1, depending on how many armies your opponent had left over.  He should play the lottery

Can you provide us with a link for bragging rights?

http://www.wargear.net/games/player/37482 Turn 4865 is where it starts.

A slight exaggeration on my part. 60 v 70 start. Opponent came out of that scuffle with 45 ants left intact.