by: The Beast

That is a direct quote from the Risk gameplay manual.

by: Anonymous

In one of your comments you explained that the official Risk rules require that a person who has six cards after eliminating a player must wait until their next turn to trade them in. Can you send me a link to an official page that says or tell me where you found this?

by: The Beast

From the Risk official gameplay rules:

“If the player [who eliminated another player] now holds more than five cards as a consequence of capturing the opponent’s cards, he MUST hand in set(s) on the reinforcement phase of his next turn.”

NEXT TURN. Not this turn.

by: ekricket

One comment – there is another time when you can get reinforcements during your turn – if you take out a player that has cards, and this gives you more than five cards – you have to trade in sets immediately until you have less than five cards. This should be an integral part of your end game strategy, using this principal to gain momentum to carry you through to the end or at least make you impregnable. Often this makes the difference between which opponent to take out – if you think you can take either opponent A or B, and one has four cards and one has one – take out the one with four first. This will give you the bonus of adding reinforcements during the middle of your turn (assuming you had at least one card already), and often enable you to move on and take the other opponent out.