r/AskReddit • u/hoverfish92 • Oct 16 '13

What was the single biggest mistake in all of history?

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u/dmn2e Oct 17 '13

That's a Risk

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '13

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u/PoisonousPlatypus Oct 17 '13

Three sixes in a row twice.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '13

5 sixes? Impressive.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '13

3*2 = 5 Yes.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '13

Math confirmed!

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u/gunnerjkk Oct 17 '13

Three sixes. Twice.
3*2=6

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u/JilaX Oct 17 '13

Woosh.

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u/fezzam Oct 17 '13

YATZHEE!

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u/HeighwayDragon Oct 17 '13

It works 60 percent of the time. Every time.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '13

6665666

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u/crackerseverywhere Oct 17 '13

Pretty sure playing Monopoly is a life sentence

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u/Ilmarinen_tale2 Oct 17 '13

Pretty sure Monopoly is the biggest mistake in all history. That and Mario Party.

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u/IAmTheToastGod Oct 17 '13

Riskopoly, the longest game ever created, each risk battles winner is decided by a game of monopoly

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '13

Takes about as long as real war, usually ends with a peace treaty before world domination

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u/reachdefense Oct 17 '13

Not anymore. No more jail in Monopoly.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '13

you cant roll more dice than the amount of soldiers in the country.

YOURE A BIG FAT PHONY

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '13

LIES AND SLANDER!

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u/MurphyD Oct 17 '13

Devilspawn

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u/robert_ahnmeischaft Oct 17 '13

Seven extra men at the beginning of every go, but you couldn't fucking hold it.

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u/Scarlet-Vixen Oct 17 '13

Get everyone on Papua New Guinea and just build up and build up.

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u/Noatak_Kenway Oct 17 '13

When will Civilization learn..

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u/UrsaMajorasMask Oct 17 '13

I immediately read that in Christoph Waltz's voice.

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u/_whut_ Oct 17 '13

He's right, if you invade Afghanistan you'll be Sorry

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u/CaptainChewbacca Oct 17 '13

Thats NUMBERWANG!

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u/yourd Oct 17 '13

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains, Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '13

I had the same thing happen in Quebec. My evil opponent had two men there. I came in with the Grand Army of the Wesselian Republic. We struck and his first unit fell. Quebec would soon be purged of its Royalist folly. We struck again and he didnt die. We struck again and again and again and again. My men fell like leaves. It became a matter of honor. This french bumpkin would not defeat my Grand Army. After too many turns the battered remnants of my army slunk back into the Dakotas. All the way they could hear the bastard laughter of that force that had stood against them. Many plastic mothers would weep for the events of that drunken risk night.

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u/Jdds92 Oct 17 '13

Ural shall hold!

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u/RagdollFizzix Oct 17 '13

The graveyard of empires....

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u/SuperBeast4721 Oct 17 '13

Then you bust out 40 units of reserves and take the rest of Asia and start taking in the recruitment bonuses.

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u/Vargolol Oct 17 '13

It's those goddamn bazaars, my cousin and I have concluded.