Jungle (board game) of the board to indicate initial placement of the game pieces. After initial setup, these designated squares have no special meaning in the . There are several special squares and areas of the Jungle board: Each player has eight game pieces representing different animals, each with a different rank, and in their own colour (blue versus red). The animal ranking, from strongest to weakest, is: Pieces start on squares with pictures corresponding to their animal, which are invariably shown on the Jungle board. Players alternate moves with Blue moving first. During their turn, a player must move. All pieces can
Risk (game) of territory cards. The following is a typical layout of the "Risk" game board, with a table of the corresponding continent and territory names. Each territory on the typical "Risk" game board represents a real-life geographical or political region on Earth. As such, the territory borders are drawn to resemble the geography of those regions. This provides an interior space on which to place the army units, adds an element of realism to the game, and also adds complexity. Most of the territories represent a combination of countries or states; some that have names of single countries or states, like