Conquering the World
Nathan Fung, with grid by Craig Kasper and images by Mark Halpin
ANSWER: SOWETO
Each card represents a Risk territory with half of a clue on it that when paired with another territory forms a whole clue.
Clue | Answer |
---|---|
Sports / TV personality Jim | ROME |
Jane Eyre or / Harry Potter | ORPHAN |
One who is politically / extremist | ULTRA |
Desert / Storm locale | KUWAIT |
Shakespearean / schemer | IAGO |
Changed / shape | MORPHED |
Puny / puppy | RUNT |
Nets / forward Haskell | TRENTON |
Helen Keller's / first word | WATER |
"Agrippina" / composer | HANDEL |
Springsteen's / Oscar-winning movie | PHILADELPHIA |
Runner's / assignment | LANE |
Will Smith / title role | ALI |
Make / haste | HIE |
It may be / left of center | EPI |
Bibliophile's / activity | PERUSAL |
Creatures of / Hebrew folklore | GOLEMS |
Nancy Drew's / dog | TOGO |
Early Christian / metal band | JERUSALEM |
Pint in / a pub | ALE |
Family / card game | UNO |
The answers to these clues can be entered onto a Risk board, one letter per territory, spelling each answer from the first territory to the second through adjacent neighbours. The completed board is shown below.
On each continent, there is one clue answer that uses every letter in the continent. These clue answers are all names of places. Putting these names in the order by how the extra army chart on most boards orders the continents (an order echoed in the arrangement of the clues, which were blocked by continent) and indexing into their names using the number of extra armies you earn by owning that continent spells the answer SOWETO.
Continent | Answer | Extra armies | Letter |
---|---|---|---|
North America | JERUSALEM | 5 | S |
South America | TOGO | 2 | O |
Africa | KUWAIT | 3 | W |
Asia | PHILADELPHIA | 7 | E |
Europe | TRENTON | 5 | T |
Oceania | ROME | 2 | O |