Sorry! (game)
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Sorry!, the slide pursuit game is a board game based on pachisi, sold by Parker Brothers.
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Goal
Each player has his own START location and HOME location. The goal is to be the first player to get all four pawns from the START square to the HOME square. Turns are passed by the left (clockwise). Sorry! is played with pawns and cards instead of dice.
Rules
Each player in turn draws one card from the stock and follows its instructions. Typically, a card requires the player to move one of his or her pawns a certain number of spaces clockwise around the board. The player can choose which pawn they want to use.
No two pawns may occupy the same square. A pawn that lands on a square occupied by a pawn of another color sends that pawn back to the nest. A pawn may not be moved so as to land on a square already occupied by a pawn of the same color.
If a pawn lands on the start square of a slide, it immediately moves forward the three or four squares to the last square of the slide. All other pawns anywhere on the slide are then sent back to the nest. Exception: If a pawn lands on the start square of a slide marked in its own color, no action is taken.
With 4 and 10, the player can move backwards. A common strategy is to start a pawn out of the nest, and then move it backwards past the entrance to the goal, saving a long clockwise trip around the board.
Cards and function
| 1 | Start a pawn or move a pawn 1 space |
|---|---|
| 2 | Start a pawn or move a pawn 2 spaces and draw a card again |
| 3 | Move a pawn 3 spaces |
| 4 | Move a pawn 4 spaces backwards |
| 5 | Move a pawn 5 spaces |
| 7 | Move one pawn 7 spaces or split the 7 spaces between two pawns |
| 8 | Move a pawn 8 spaces |
| 10 | Move a pawn 10 spaces forward or 1 space backwards |
| 11 | Move 11 spaces forward or switch pawns with your opponent |
| 12 | Move a pawn 12 spaces forward |
| Sorry! | Move any one of your pawns from START to the square occupied by any opponent's pawn, sending that pawn back to its own START. |
Teams
Red's companion is yellow and blue's companion is green. You can eat your partner's pawns. When a '7' card is played, the count may be split between any two of the 8 pawns.
Variation
A variation with more scope for strategy is for each player to play the card of their choice from a hand, replenishing the played card from the stock.
Trivia
The game was featured in a 1975 episode of The Carol Burnett Show, in a well-remembered segment of the ongoing dysfunctional family sketch Eunice, in which Eunice (Burnett), her husband (Harvey Korman) and mother (Vicki Lawrence) nearly come to physical blows while playing a game of Sorry!