Yeah, I found this one out the hard way too... fortunately I didn't have as many points to lose! Ah well, it was still fun...

Concise description:

⋅ I suggest that there should be a way to indicate to the game that you are away and unable to take turns to allow your turn to be skipped quickly rather than waiting.

Specifics:

⋅ If you are marked as Away and your turn comes up, it is skipped and ...

The thing about randomness is that when there is an outlying result, we remember that outlier with more clarity than we remember non-outlier results. This of course occurs in non-random situations; it is easy to remember, say, the top three home run hitters in baseball but not the middle three ...

mikenstein wrote:they probably worded it that way for people completely new to risk, but it's unnecessarily wordy and confusing.

I think the opposite is likely true, that it is described this way to make it sound LESS like Risk.

--Chris