Playing Risk on a Globe

Risk is a fun board game, but Instructables user madkins9 suggests building a spherical board for a "more frustrated, expensive, and time-consuming" experience. Fortunately, he's done the planning work, which is where most of the difficulty comes from.

madkins9 used steel hemispheres to make the globe and glued magnets to the game pieces from an original 1962 set. He then stained and polished wooden base comes with hexagonal drawers for each of the six player colors.

The final product must make for a more realistic game, as, for example, Alaska and Kamchatka are no longer on opposite sides of the board. Thus the spherical design provides for superior practical training for world conquest.

-via Hack-A-Day