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User Submitted Sorry! Family Game Night Edition Reviews (cont...)Date: 2007-02-12 Sometimes You're Sorry, Sometimes You're Not! Sorry! Family Night Game Edition is one of our family's favorite games to play. It's a great game and we enjoyed watching our youngest children learn the different strategies of the game. At first our five year old daughter was a bit timid about knocking another players piece back to start and wasn't too happy when it happened to her. Our seven year old son, on the other hand, thought it was great fun to bump another player back to the beginning. Although, like his sister, he didn't like it when it happened to him! Taking a cue from our reactions they learned it was okay to bump and to get bumped. Once they began to learn the different ways a player could get around the board and reach the safety of Home the game became a favorite of theirs. We knew they got the idea of it when, after playing a few games, one of them said, "Sometimes, I'm sorry and sometimes, I'm not!" Exactly! Just like you won't be sorry if you buy this game! Date: 2007-01-13 Great For Kids and Family Fun! Lots of laughs and excitement, and young children have as good a chance of winning as their parents! Date: 2007-01-04 Trouble on Steroids Like its cousin, Trouble, the game Sorry is quite simple in design. The reality, however, is that it is both an entertaining and surprisingly educational board game. It now comes packaged in a convenient library case (Note - this is a different item, also available on Amazon). The library case makes storage easier, and it also makes it simpler for kids to get games out of the shelf without a parent helping. (why did it take so long for someone to think of this?) The simple rules: up to 4 players each begin with 4 tokens in the "start" area. Players take turns drawing from a deck of cards and moving pieces as indicated, trying to be the first to get all pieces to the "home" space. The cards offer some nice twists beyond simply moving forward: 1 = move 1 space forward or move a piece out of start 2 = move 2 spaces forward or move a piece out of start, draw again 4 = move backward 4 spaces (occasionally an advantage) 5, 8, 12 = move forward that number of spaces 7 = move 1 or 2 pieces a total of 7 spaces forward 10 = move forward 10 or backward 1 11 = move forward 11 or switch one of your pieces with an opponents piece "Sorry" = take a piece from your start and replace a piece of your opponent's, send them back to start. Be sure to say "Sorry!" in a way that makes it clear that you really aren't. And that's pretty much it. The game is simple enough that most kids who can count and recognize numbers can grasp the basics. With a little parental coaching, younger siblings can play on near-equal footing with their older brothers and sisters (Note - the older sibs do NOT think this is fair). However, the fun (and the teaching) comes with all of the choices. Should a player use the all of the 1's and 2's to get all 4 pieces out on the board, or should he focus on getting one piece at a time to safety? Should a player switch places with an opponent's piece and help herself, even if that helps her opponent too? How should he split up a 7? Working through these possibilities is a challenge for younger players, but a worthwhile one. Probably the biggest lessons Sorry teaches, though, are sportsmanship, the ability to dealt with setbacks, and the idea of not giving up when things aren't going well (Sorry is the ultimate "it's not over to it's over" game). Having a piece that is near the finish get suddendly sent back to start can be temporarily devastating to a young child. Don't expect them to take it well the first time it happens. Here, parents can teach the best way to deal with disappointment by their own good example. Kids who learn these lessons at age 6 in a board game will be less likely to melt down at age 7 on the soccer or T-ball field. For all of these reasons, Sorry is a great family game. It is fun, but it is also educational without ever feeling like a lesson. 5 stars. Date: 2006-12-13 Favorite game! I love this game! Anyone can play it, children through adults. There are variations for adults to make it more interesting. My college roommate and I would play it for hours on end.... it doesn't get old. I would say this is a must-have for a game lover. Date: 2006-11-21 Add an element of strategy to the game! For those of you complaining that this game is too simplistic for adults, try playing the adult version! This is the true game and not at all like the simple kids version. The game is described on the Sorry! rules sheet. Instead of the cards being drawn one at a time as in the kid's version, each player is dealt a five card hand. This opens a whole new level of strategy as the game then becomes dependent not so much on the luck of the draw, but how the cards are played! With these rules the game can be played for a lifetime and never grow stale.
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