"Game of Thrones" Gets 'Risk' Board Game

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Fight Your Friends for the Iron Throne in Game of Thrones Risk
by Mary Sollosi
7/8/15


HBO will be coming out with a special "Game of Thrones" edition of the world conquest board game Risk later this summer, Speakeasy reported this morning. Our only question is: what took them so long?

There is already a "Game of Thrones" Monopoly out there, in which we can only assume it’s good to be a Lannister (except for always paying those debts), but Risk seems like a very natural fit for the world domination–oriented series.



You can play on a map of Westeros as Houses Stark, Baratheon, Lannister, Martell, and Tyrell, or take gameplay across the narrow sea to Essos and play on a second map as houses Targaryen and Ghiscari. For a real Known World–wide showdown, combine the two boards for a full map and battle it out between all seven houses. Valar Morghulis, indeed.

The game comes with more than 650 pieces, including seven sculpted 45-piece Noble House armies, and it will retail for $74.95 starting in August — be sure to get yours before winter comes.

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/07/08...isk-board-game