Board game
John Waddington Limited
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
Unknown
Materials
Cardboard, plastic and paper
Measurements
Box – 515 mm (length); 362 mm (width); 38 mm (height), Board – 708 mm (length); 502 mm (width), Cubes - 12 mm (length); 9 mm (width)
Place of origin
Leeds
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 661915
Summary
A flat white cardboard box with a separate white cardboard lid printed in colour with a globe and the name 'RISK!'. Inside are six sets of plastic pieces, square ones representing one army and triangular beads representing ten armies each. There are forty-five playing cards, four dice, a rules leaflet, and a playing board. Each set of armies should have 'approximately seventy' cubes and 'several shaped pieces' of each colour. In fact there are- Yellow –sixty-four cubes and six beads. Blue- seventy-seven cubes and seven beads Red- seventy-three cubes and six beads Black- seventy cubes and six beads Green- sixty-seven cubes and six beads Pink- fifty-nine cubes and six beads. Total number of items is 500.
Makers and roles
John Waddington Limited, maker