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 Post subject: Sorry! is an awesome board game
PostPosted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:17 pm 
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So simple, not much going on, not much of a gimmick, yet so, so much fun. It holds up very, very well. Still a minor classic.

Just thought you'd like to know.


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 Post subject: Sorry! is an awesome board game
PostPosted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:27 pm 
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Dude, it was awesome hitting the slide thingys that would let you get halfway across the side. Especially if your brother's piece was at the end and you got to knock him back to the start.

Sorry! was awesome.

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:28 pm 
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Awesome game. Totally agree.

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 Post subject: Sorry! is an awesome board game
PostPosted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:33 pm 
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We've been playing this as a family recently, and it's an absolute hoot. When Taft Jr. hits those slides Hank mentioned and bumps Mrs. Taft back to start, the whole table goes "Whoooaaa!" and the taunts begin. And then I get it and am taunted. And he gets it. So much fun.


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PostPosted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 9:11 pm 
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I figure it's been twenty years since I've played this game. I don't remember it too well.

Is this the one with the twelve steps and the apologizing to everyone you've ever known?


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 Post subject: Sorry! is an awesome board game
PostPosted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 6:12 am 
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I've never played Sorry.

Sorry

I liked Balderdash. or the one I played anyway which also had dates and scientific stuff to make up. I've heard they didn't have that in the original.


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PostPosted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 8:00 am 
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I love Sorry! but the game called Trouble was my absolute favorite. Same EXACT game as Sorry!, but you get to click a little dome with a die in it to determine how many spaces to move, instead of shuffling those Sorry cards and picking one.

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 Post subject: Sorry! is an awesome board game
PostPosted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 8:15 am 
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We had Sorry! several years ago, but half my kids would be offended and angry for getting bumped back to the start.

It might be time to introduce this classic back to the family.

Where else can you actually knock a family member back to start, and feign sincere apology?


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 Post subject: Sorry! is an awesome board game
PostPosted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 8:54 am 
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Li'l Jay wrote:
Trouble

Trouble is also very cool. It lacks the slides of Sorry!, but it has the cool bubble thing.

I recently bought a three-pack of games at Toys R Us. For just $9 - nine bucks! - it had Spanish knockoffs of Trouble, Connect Four and Snakes & Ladders. The games were note-for-note identical to their American counterparts but had different names. Nine bucks!


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 Post subject: Sorry! is an awesome board game
PostPosted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 8:56 am 
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That trouble came must be from BC. Sheesh, it looks old.

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 Post subject: Sorry! is an awesome board game
PostPosted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 9:04 am 
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That trouble came must be from BC. Sheesh, it looks old.


The ebay listing says 1965. My game board would have been circa 1975, so no altogether different. The board looked exactly the same. The box was more 70's "out there" instead of that My Three Sons look.

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 Post subject: Sorry! is an awesome board game
PostPosted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 2:23 pm 
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I played Trouble a couple of times. That was fun. there was this monster board game I had that was really cool. It was set in a dungeon and the cherecters were all famous monsters. It had the same bubble thing. Those are fun.


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PostPosted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 2:57 pm 
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What if I'm not really sorry? Can I still play?

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 10:31 pm 
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"Pop the dice in the magic bubble. It gets you in and out of trouble"

Sad I still have that echoing 'round the back of my brain.

Sorry was awesome fun! I wish it can with the little bell like on the Mama's family skits on the Carol Burnett Show.

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 11:15 pm 
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Both are great games! My kids go on Monoploy kicks and my older son always wins.

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 3:21 am 
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I think that the "Pop-O-Matic" feature is so cool that it should be worked into Congress somehow.

And no, I don't know how, exactly. Just somehow.


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 Post subject: Sorry! is an awesome board game
PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 7:01 am 
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Perhaps a replacement for toe-tapping?

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 Post subject: Sorry! is an awesome board game
PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 10:27 am 
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There's always this version.

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I'm not sure if that's an editorial comment though.

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 Post subject: Sorry! is an awesome board game
PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 11:15 am 
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Sorry and Trouble are both really just variations of Parcheesi.

Which in no way invalidates how fun they all are.


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 Post subject: Sorry! is an awesome board game
PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 11:58 am 
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We too are a Sorry family. Saturday is family game night, during the long Minnesota winters, and we combine it with classic movie night, so now our son has a pop culture awareness of most things 70's and 80's.


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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 12:51 pm 
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chris hates sorry.

vote him out

http://www.imwan.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=18230

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 12:58 pm 
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Rob Steinbrenner wrote:


You know this garners you no sympathy don't you?


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