Sorry and the Parchisi games
Sometimes, the super simple kids games are the most fun. Maybe they are not worth analyzing, maybe they are. But here we go. Sorry! is an odd game. At first look, there is nothing to it. And yeah, behind the scenes there is nothing to it either. But when I sat down to play a session just now, to get some images for this little set of articles, THIS happened: It's like the game knew I was going to write about it, so it handed me a big negative 4. "Here, you can start off by NOT going anywhere." On the funny side, after Anne and I picked up this copy of Sorry! about a year ago, for the first few months we didn't notice that the 4 actually says move Back 4. Not Ahead 4. Umm, shouldn't the four be a different color to maybe make it stand out from the forward-moving crowd? Okay, negative four did make the game slightly more variable. And at a dinner a few months later, Doug let us know that the slides let you knock out ALL the players along the slide - eve...