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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I was just reading Sal Khan’s book and saw a mention of a game called Paranoia Risk, which is like normal Risk, but with a fun twist: each player has one other player, randomly chosen by deal of cards, who they must exterminate completely to win. Each player knows who she is trying to slay, but she doesn’t know who is stalking her own ass. Each player also knows she cannot eliminate any player who isn’t her own prey, otherwise it causes someone else to win. You might protect a weakling who isn’t one’s own prey, only to find out that weakling is one’s own predator. Cool!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Six-player Risk in the standard form has a fundamental problem: endgames are generally uninteresting. It ends up being a huge tedious slugfest between two players long after the others are eliminated. The Paranoia version sounds tense and interesting with all players in the game right up until someone attempts a fatal final attack, which might fail and leave her vulnerable for whoever is her predator.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It would be even cooler to come up with a means of betting on the game by a crowd of non-participating observers, who don’t know but draw inferences on who is stalking whom based on the behavior of the players.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Anders, you are in the epicenter of coolness there in Oxford. Do you know of people playing Paranoia Risk, or clubs? Are there online groups playing?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>