How to play Sorry (2024 rules)

Learn the rules to the board game Sorry quickly and concisely - This video has no distractions, just the rules.

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RULES:
The object of the game is to be the first player to get all 4 your pawns from your start to your home. Lay out the board and each player picks a color and places those pawns on their matching colored start space. Shuffle the cards and place them on the board as a draw deck. The youngest player goes first, then play proceeds clockwise. On your turn, discard 1 card from the top of the draw deck to the discard pile and do what it says, then your turn ends and the next player goes.

If the draw deck runs out of cards, then shuffle the discard into a new draw deck. You may only move a pawn out of your start space with a 1, 2, or sorry! Card.

Pawns move from the start space down, then clockwise around the outside track, traveling up into the safe zone of their matching color, towards their home space. Pawns jump over any other pawn in its way, counting that space. If you land on the same space as another player’s pawn, then bump that pawn back to its owner’s start space. Other than the start and home spaces, pawns of the same color may not share a space. If your only available move is to land on a space already occupied by one of your own pawns, then you do not move. Anytime you are unable to move, your turn ends and the next player goes. If you have a legal move, then you must move, even if you don’t want to.

Any time you land by exact count on the triangle at the beginning of your color slide, then slide ahead to the end and bump any pawns in your way, including your own, back to their start spaces. If you land in the middle of a slide, or on a triangle for a slide that isn’t your color, then you do not slide.

Only pawns of the matching color can enter a safety zone. You are not allowed to move into a safety zone by a backwards move. Though, you are allowed to move out of a safety zone from a backwards move. You are not allowed to move your pawn past the entrance to your own safety zone when moving forward around the board. You must move all your pawns to your home space by exact count. Once a pawn reaches home, that pawn may no longer move.

All the cards say what they do, but some additional clarification is needed as follows:
7. If you slit your move to get a pawn home, you must be able to use the remaining balance on another pawn otherwise you may not perform the move. You may not use a seven to get a pawn out of start.
11. If you are unable to move forward 11 spaces and you do not want to change places with another player’s pawn, then you do not need to trade places and instead forfeit your turn. You can only switch pawns in the outer track, you may not switch with those in start, home, or a safety zone. If you switch with a pawn on a slide of your color, immediately perform the slide.
Sorry. If there is no pawn on your start or no opponent’s pawn on any legal space you can move to, then you forfeit your turn.

The first player to get all 4 of their pawns to their home wins!

[LoveKirbythecutepinkball]

One more, if a “sorry” card is a move forward 4, instead of bumping opponent's pawn, you may move your pawn that is in play 4 spaces

[LeotheTiger]

There is also a variation for adults where you can play for points, and another where you shuffle and deal 5 cards to each player. Then the rest of the cards become the draw deck. After you play a card of your choice, draw 1 card to bring your hand back to 5.

Such rules were present in the version I own, which has the old rules including the fact you do not slide on your own color, but you do slide on a different color.

[tranmanhuc]

it's a bit sad that the DRAW AGAIN rule on 2 cards are removed - and why Sorry! cards allow a 4-step move instead of some missing number like 6 or 9 is yet to be known

[theartglam]

Please make a video of the best board games of 2024 or 2023 😊

[mcarthursampson]

Hello I notice in your video you did a slide that was not matching the same color as the pawn. Please clarify. Thank you.

[theAstarrr]

Playing by drawing 6 cards and forming a hand makes it a lot better.

[evanrosman]

When I played that game as a kid we were NOT allowed to move backwards out of the safety zone.

[inanefool]

Really glad to see they went back to 4 pawns, they were only including 3 pawns for a while.

[proisborn]

Please make a "how to play 5 alive" its very underrated

[forgexgames]

This channel gotta reupload every single video with 2024 rules

[Aikoyori]

wait so you if you get a backward and you're just outside your starting area do you go back in there or move back beyond the start space

[some_one]

How to play "tambola" its a very popular game fr!! Kidz would love it!

[MXCKAVELLIII]

question, if i pull a 1 card & place my pawn 1 space from start then my next turn i pull a move back 4 spaces card , do i return my pawn to start or move backwards 4 spaces on the board?

[vonnessatracey]

What do you do when u get fire or ice?

[veselinbenev]

This game is better than Ludo and I don't know why I can't buy or download the game app in my country. To wait for 6 in Ludo is awful.

[JLvatron]

"Sorry, Dave!"
(from 3's Company, lol)

[JohnSmith-zwvp]

So they closed the backwards from start to shortcut to home path loophole.

[jknifgijdfui]

I cant tell if hes updating rules so much cause he just wants to or cause hes about to quit youtube cause coop772 did the exact same before quitting and i still miss him

[jardex]

It's Ludo, but with cards and slides.

[vortexplayz]

Day 10 asking can you make How To Play Magic Maze