Stars: 5 out of 5
Pros: A magic twist on a classic board game
Cons: Don't need it if
you already have Sorry!
The Bottom Line:
Sorry! with a twist
New cards add a touch of fun
To the classic game
No Disney Fan Will be Sorry to get Sorry! The Disney Edition
My family has always loved to play games, so I grew up playing many of the classics. I had fond memories of Sorry!, so when I ran across Sorry! The Disney Edition a few years back, I got it. After all, I didn't have any copies of the game myself. It's turned out to be a fun addition to my game collection.
The Game Sorry!
Sorry! is a board game in which you try to get your four
tokens around the board from Start to Home.
In a twist on most other games of this type, you draw cards instead of
rolling dice to determine how far you move your pieces. Some of the cards include special
instructions. A 1 or 2 allows you to
start or move forward. A 4 moves you
backward. A 7 can be split between two
pieces. And an 11 allows you to switch
with another player's piece if you want.
There are number cards for all numbers 1-12 except 6 and 9.
If you land on another player's token, they have to move that
piece back to Start. Don't forget to say
Sorry! as you land on them. And there
are Sorry! cards in the deck that allow you to move a token from start to any
space an opponent is occupying, sending them back to Start.
You win when all four of your tokens are home.
The Disney Twist
So, how do they make a Disney version of this game? For starters, the path you follow on the
board looks like film instead of normal squares. The tokens aren't generic plastic pieces but
cardboard replicas of Disney characters.
The red team is now villains like Cruella de Vil and Captain Hook. The blue team is the heroes like Buzz
Lightyear and Peter Pan. Yellow features
heroines, three princesses and Jesse from the Toy Story movies. Finally, you can be Dumbo, Winnie the Pooh,
and other animals if you are the green team.
The cards have some interesting twists as well. There are four special cards for four numbers
in the deck, one for each color. If you
pull the card that features your color, you have a chance to really
advance. Otherwise, you move as if it
were a normal card. What are the special
rules? With a 3, you can pick the top
three cards from the draw pile and play whichever one you want. For a 5, you can move one token of each
opponent back five spaces. The 8 lets
you move two of your pieces forward 8istead of the normal one. Finally, a 12 lets you move your lead piece
all the way home.
My Experience
I finally played this with my roommate a few months back,
and we both had a blast. I think we
played for two or three hours, which let us play several games. If we had maxed out at four players, I'm sure
a single game would have taken longer.
It was fun getting to play the various characters, although those
special number cards were the big prize.
Usually, we got each other's cards, but if we did luck out and get our
own, it made a big difference in game play.
And since we had to shuffle up the cards at least once per game, we
usually had a couple shots at them.
The game is recommended for ages 6 and up. I don't remember how young my brother or I
were when we started playing Sorry!, but we were probably around that age. We always loved it, understanding that going
back to the beginning was part of the game.
Obviously, with the cards involved, there is a huge portion
of luck involved, but that's the case with most games where you roll the
dice. Deciding which token to move when
does introduce a little strategy, and I can remember picking up on that at an
early age, which helped prepare me for games that involved more strategy.
Conclusion
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