Sorry! is a board game in which players use a deck of movement cards, rather than dice, to race a set of tokens around a track from their own start to their own home area, sending opponents' tokens back to start when landing on the same space. It was invented by William Henry Storey in England and patented in 1929, drawing on the same cross-track race format as Pachisi and Parcheesi, and it was later acquired and published in the United States by Parker Brothers, becoming one of that company's long-running standard board game titles.
Facts
Originating Region Playing Time Skill or Luck Age Suitability PublisherCopp Clark Publishing Company 3 PublisherGrow Jogos e Brinquedos 3 PublisherHearth & Hand with Magnolia 3 Game Category Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Minimum Players Maximum Players Classification
Player Count Player CountSmall Group (3-6 Players) 1 Sport
Game Type (category) Connections
Associated With
Ludo, Games Source Sorry! (game), Wikipedia
Derived From
Ludo, Games Source Sorry! (game), Wikipedia
Pachisi, Games Sorry! (Parker Brothers, 1929) builds on the cross-and-circle movement-and-capture mechanics of the Pachisi family, popularized in England through Ludo.
Source The Oxford History of Board Games
Sources
1. Sorry! (game), Wikipedia
Section: History, trade mark registration
It was registered as a trade mark on 21 May 1929 (UK number 502898).
Section: History, patent filing
William Henry Storey of Southend-on-Sea filed for a patent for the game in England.
Lead paragraph, first sentence
Sorry! is a board game that is based on the older game Ludo.
History section, adoption by Parker Brothers
Sorry! was adopted by Parker Brothers in 1934.
Gameplay section, card-driven movement
Movement of pawns is directed by the drawing of a card.
Lead paragraph, original manufacturer
Originally manufactured by W.H. Storey & Co in England and later by Hasbro
Lead paragraph, second sentence
Players move their three or four pieces around the board, attempting to get all of their pieces "home" before any other player.
Classic cards and function section, deck contents
The modern deck contains 45 cards: there are five 1 cards as well as four each of the other cards (Sorry!, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11 and 12).
Classic cards and function section, Sorry! card
Take any one pawn from Start and move it directly to a square occupied by any opponent's pawn, sending that pawn back to its own Start.
Objective section
The objective is to be the first player to get all three (four for the modern version) of their colored pawns from their start space, around the board to their "home" space.
History section, United States patent
In the United States, U.S. patent 1,903,661 was filed for Sorry! on 4 Aug 1930 by William Henry Storey.
Infobox: random_chance
High (card drawing)
Infobox: ages
6 and up
Infobox, players field
2-4
Derived From: Ludo, Lead paragraph, Ludo basis
Sorry! is a board game that is based on the older game Ludo.
Derived From: Ludo, Lead paragraph, first sentence, base game Ludo
Sorry! is a board game that is based on the older game Ludo.
Associated With: Pachisi, Reception section, Games magazine Top 100 Games of 1980
praising it as an "old classic in the pachisi mold"
View the Source2. Wikidata: Sorry!
Wikidata Q2303559, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source 3. Sorry! (BoardGameGeek)
- Playing Time: 30
- Designer: Paul T. Haskell, Jr.
- Designer: William Henry Storey
- Publisher: Basic Fun, Inc.
- Publisher: Borras Plana S.A.
- Publisher: Brohm-Parker-Spiele
- Publisher: Casa Estanciero S.R.L.
- Publisher: Copp Clark Publishing Company
- Publisher: Editrice Giochi
- Publisher: Estrela
- Publisher: Game Office
- Publisher: General Mills
- Publisher: Grow Jogos e Brinquedos
- Publisher: Hasbro
- Publisher: Hausser
- Publisher: Hearth & Hand with Magnolia
- Publisher: John Sands Pty Ltd
- Publisher: John Waddington Ltd.
- Publisher: Joker
- Publisher: Juegos Crone
- Publisher: Just Play
- Publisher: Milton Bradley
- Publisher: Murfett
- Game Category: Children's Game
- Game Mechanic: Roll / Spin and Move
- Game Mechanic: Take That
- Minimum Players: 2
- Maximum Players: 4
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