Sorry? Snigger! Not really!! (Sorry !)

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Product:	Sorry !
Date:	28/08/02 (59 review reads)
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Advantages: Quick to play, Anyone may win

Disadvantages: Nasty adults exploiting their kids to cover up for their own insecurities in life

Right, you like board games. You can count. And you have evil tendencies that involve damaging your opponents (or kids) chances of winning. With a typical game lasting less than half an hour, it is ideal for those with short attention spans - like me!

Sorry is based generally on the Ludo principle of move your pieces around the board until they all get safely home. There are, however, little problems in the way, such as other players trying to get one over on you.

Rather than using a dice, a set of cards numbered 1 to 12 is used to help you progress round the board. For reasons unknown, there are no sixes or nines, but let us not lose sleep over it!

Some of the numbers allow you to do things other than move round the board, which is what effectively makes it a more exciting game than Ludo.

With a 1, you can get a piece out or move forwards.

A 2 allows you to get a piece out and move forwards as well as having another go!

3,5,8,12 allow you to move forwards by the appropriate number.

4 only allows you to move backwards ? brilliant if you've only just started, because this means you are now nearly home and don't have to get your piece all the way round the board!

7 is a move forward too, but you can split the move between two or more pieces. This is great fun if one of your opponent's pieces is just in front of you by, say, two spaces. You can move one of your pieces forward two, removing your opponent's piece from play, and move another of your pieces forwards 5 spaces to complete the 7!

10 allows you to move forwards 10 or back one space. If another player has a piece right behind you, an evil grin will cross your face as you choose the latter option!!

11 gives you the choice of moving your piece forwards or swapping places with an opposing player's piece. This is great if the other player's piece is just about to enter the safety zone of his ho
me run as it means you can now move him to a far less advantageous position, benefiting you!

One other card, the "Sorry" card, allows you to start a piece by replacing another player's piece on the board. This is incredibly annoying for the other player, but is part of what makes this game compelling from start to finish.

Other features include a "slide" option, which progresses your piece 4 or 5 spaces, killing any other pieces that are sat on the slide and making them start all over again.

While it can be played with as few as two players, it works best with four. The lead will change hands several times during the game, and it is very easy for someone who was down and out to fight back and win - especially if they share my wicked tendencies!

Play it!

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