Played a lot of Risk 50 yrs. ago, after a few yrs. thought it too simple & boring. Lately played again because some friends wanted something fairly simple; still thought it boring...but then! They came out w some official variants that made it interesting again. People had long been coming up w their own variant rules for Risk, & Parker Bros. came out w some that were still pretty boring. But recent versions -- Mission Risk & Team Risk, mostly -- will probably take a while before the games all seem the same again.