Do you have to slide on your own color in Sorry?

Slide. Any time you land by exact count on the triangle at the beginning of a slide that shows your color, slide ahead to the end and bump any pawns in your way − including your own! − back to their own start areas. If you land on a slide that does not show your color, don't slide, just stay put on the triangle.

Can you slide on your color Sorry?

on a SLIDE of your own color, don't slide, just stay put on the triangle. pawn may move backward out of its SAFETY ZONE and on subsequent turns move back into the ZONE as cards permit. Safety Zone Entry Space: When moving along the outside track, you may not move your pawn forward beyond your own SAFETY ZONE entry.

Can you slide past your home in Sorry?

Quote: Safety Zone Entry Space: When moving along the outside track, you may not move your pawn forward beyond your own SAFETY ZONE entry. However, you may pass the entry space on a backward move (4 or 10 card) or as the result of a "SORRY!" or "switch" (11) card played against you.

Can you share a space with your own pawn in Sorry?

Notes: • Two pawns of the same color may never occupy the same space. If your only possible move would make you land on a space already occupied by another of your own pawns, you forfeit your turn. If at any time you cannot move, you forfeit your turn.

Do you need exact number to get home in Sorry?

To win Sorry, you need to get all of your pawns to the home space. Getting your pawns home sounds simple, but it may take time because other players will bump you back to START. You also need to draw the exact number of spaces between a pawn and your home space in order to get there.

How to Play Sorry!

Can you slide into your safety zone?

Safety Zones:

Safety Zones look like Slide Zones, but they are larger. Only you may enter your Safety Zone. All normal rules apply. Note, you can't move backwards into your safety zone, though you can exit a safety zone with a backwards move card.

How does the safe zone work in Sorry?

A Safety Zone may be entered only by a forward move and a player is never allowed to move his man forward beyond this entrance square except to enter his Safety Zone. (NOTE: However, this rule has no application to the exchange of pieces by an opponent through the play of an 11 card.)

What happens if you land on fire in Sorry?

This Sorry game includes special fire and ice power-up tokens that give your pawns more powers against other players. The Ice token freezes a pawn in place and doesn't allow you to move it until the ice token is moved to another player's pawn. The Fire token lets you move much more quickly around the board.

Why are there no 6 or 9 in Sorry?

The 6s or 9s are omitted to avoid confusion with each other. The first edition of the game had 44 cards (four of each) and the extra 1 card was soon introduced as an option for quicker play. A 1996 board from Waddingtons had 5 of each card.

What does the diamond mean on Sorry?

time - the game could go on far too long if that were so. The diamond was added in Sorry to make it clearer that there was a barrier and that you could not move forward across your own diamond, although the rules did specify that you could move backwards over it.