Risk/YMMV

• Ending Fatigue: Present in just about every variation:
  • in Normal risk, getting someone out of Australia will take a while, even with massive numbers on your side, mostly due to how the dice roll.
  • in Capital risk, crafty players will place their capitals in places with only one or two chokepoints to them. And then some jerk will put his in Australia.
  • Even with some of the mission cards, it's possible for two people to draw a card requiring that certain continents be held by them, and both of them need the same continent. This is frequently Asia. Occasionally, someone will end up drawing a card that requires Australia, and if they don't already have it...
• It's Easy, So It Sucks: It's commonly looked down on by "serious" wargamers both for being simple and for being entirely too luck-based with its dice-rolling mechanics.
• Magnificent Bastard: there's at least as much potential to be one in risk as Diplomacy.
  • Moreso when playing with the "Secret Mission" cards,^[1] since there is a set of them that read "Kill all of X army's units." While older versions explicitly stated that you must destroy the last unit to claim victory on that goal, recent releases changed the ruling to where if the army is defeated by anyone and they do not fulfill their mission in the same instant, you win.

1. ↑ A set of 12 or 14 cards that give a specific goal, NOT to be confused with the separate "Secret Mission Risk" release