IanSorry!
July 29th 2009 11:40
Sorry! is a classic Cross and Circle board game.
Each player has his or her own "start" location and "home" location. The objective is to be the first player to get all four pawns from the start square to the home square. Sorry! is played by drawing cards instead of rolling dice. The pawns are normally moved in a clockwise direction, but can be moved backward, if directed. Moving a pawn backward can occasionally be to one's advantage.
Each player chooses four pawns of one color and one player is selected to play first.
Each player in turn draws one card from the stack and follows its instructions. To begin the game, all of a player's four pawns are restricted to Start; only a 1 or 2 card can release them to the rest of the board. Playing a 1 or a 2 places a pawn on the space directly outside of start; playing a 2 does not entitle the pawn to a second space (this is ambiguous on the 2007 Hasbro link instructions and the card instructions, but is explicit in the 1972 Sorry! game instructions).
Two pawns cannot occupy the same square. A pawn that lands on a square occupied by another "bumps" that pawn back to its own Start. Players cannot bump their own pawns back to start. If the only way to complete a move would result in a player bumping themselves, the player just loses their turn.
If a pawn lands at the start of a slide (except those of its own color), it immediately moves to the last square of the slide. All pawns anywhere on the slide (including those of the same color, and including pawns on the "end spots" of the slide) are sent back to their respective Starts.
The last five squares before home are the "safety zone". Access is limited to those pawns of the same color. Pawns inside the zone are immune to being replaced by an opponent's pawn with an 11 or a Sorry! card. However, a pawn is vulnerable to being forcibly moved backward out of the safety zone by opponents in editions that allow a player to do so. Forced backward moves can cause a pawn to exit the zone, and a pawn can only enter home upon exact count: an 8 is unplayable when there are only 3 spaces remaining, for example.
You can now play Sorry! for free online. Get started at terragame.com here.
*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Sorry! (game).
Each player has his or her own "start" location and "home" location. The objective is to be the first player to get all four pawns from the start square to the home square. Sorry! is played by drawing cards instead of rolling dice. The pawns are normally moved in a clockwise direction, but can be moved backward, if directed. Moving a pawn backward can occasionally be to one's advantage.
Each player chooses four pawns of one color and one player is selected to play first.
Each player in turn draws one card from the stack and follows its instructions. To begin the game, all of a player's four pawns are restricted to Start; only a 1 or 2 card can release them to the rest of the board. Playing a 1 or a 2 places a pawn on the space directly outside of start; playing a 2 does not entitle the pawn to a second space (this is ambiguous on the 2007 Hasbro link instructions and the card instructions, but is explicit in the 1972 Sorry! game instructions).
Two pawns cannot occupy the same square. A pawn that lands on a square occupied by another "bumps" that pawn back to its own Start. Players cannot bump their own pawns back to start. If the only way to complete a move would result in a player bumping themselves, the player just loses their turn.
If a pawn lands at the start of a slide (except those of its own color), it immediately moves to the last square of the slide. All pawns anywhere on the slide (including those of the same color, and including pawns on the "end spots" of the slide) are sent back to their respective Starts.
The last five squares before home are the "safety zone". Access is limited to those pawns of the same color. Pawns inside the zone are immune to being replaced by an opponent's pawn with an 11 or a Sorry! card. However, a pawn is vulnerable to being forcibly moved backward out of the safety zone by opponents in editions that allow a player to do so. Forced backward moves can cause a pawn to exit the zone, and a pawn can only enter home upon exact count: an 8 is unplayable when there are only 3 spaces remaining, for example.
You can now play Sorry! for free online. Get started at terragame.com here.
*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Sorry! (game).
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