Sorry Card Revenge Game Review

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(More customer reviews)If you have played and enjoyed Uno Attack then you will like Sorry Card Revenge, a new addition in the same genre of matching card games. I think this is more fun and enjoyable than Uno Attack. Where Mattel's Uno Attack took a tired (if mildly fun) card game and spiffed it up with a random penalizer, Hasbro has dressed up their Sorry brand with a fun, new card game conceptually based on Sorry, that also has a random penalizer. (This game, featuring a talking, zany, tranluscent Big Red Pawn dishing out the penalties, is quite pleasantly different from the Sorry board game.)
The goal is everyone is trying to deplete the cards in their hands, and do it four times. Each time a player empties their hand they place one of four pawns on a circular mat in front of them--and draw five new cards. Empty your hand four times and you've won. The fun twist here is when someone empties their hand, everyone else keeps going with the cards they already hold. So one has to keep an eye on who is holding how many cards, because the game is never over until its over. Another twist on the usual Uno game mechanic.
The Big Red Pawn is funny (a real kid pleaser) even if a bit annoying at times. Sometimes the jibber jabber gets in the way of just finding out the penalty. Since someone only presses the neck of the pawn when you can't play on a turn, the game can progress while the red pawn stands idle. Red Pawn will fill the silence with an occasional comment to let you know it is waiting. You'll be annoyed a bit if you go to press the Pawn in normal gameplay while it has started a silence-breaking chatter: you have to wait till the chatter is over till you can press down for your possible penalty. Hasbro should have designed such gameplay presses to immediately override the pawn's chatter. And we have found the pawn will turn itself off if it waits too long--either from the game progressing without penalties too long or delays from newcomers who take too long to play while they get used to the new rules.
When it's your turn to play you can play any card from one of the four color suits that matches the suit/color of top card on the discard pile. Or you can play a sequential number , which allows the dominant suit to "change colors." This takes some getting used to when one has been indoctrinated by the Uno rules, which allow a like-numbered card to be played on a same-numbered card of a different color. But the fun thing here with Sorry Revenge is you can play as much a "straight/sequence" out of your hand as you wish--potentially making a hand, full of many cards from penalties, to be emptied out faster.
The basic rules state one can only place sequential cards HIGHER than the top discard. (For example, if a "9" is shown on top discard you MAY play a "10" on it--and even an "11" and "12," and so on, if you have them, regardless of color/suit.) But we've found that the alternative rules are much better for quickening the pace: you can play sequences INCREASING or DECREASING (or both) in number. The basic rule in this regard really slows things down. And as I've stated before, keeping the pace up is good to reduce idle chattering by The Big Red Pawn or worse, having it shut itself off.
And just like Uno there are wild and gameplay adjusting cards. And I think Sorry Revenge's are more fun, even if they reduce strategic play a bit. Play an "11" and you can, if you wish, trade hands with any player. Play a "2" and you can play again. Play a "slide" and you can empty your hand of all cards of a suit in one fell swoop (if you elect). And there are "Sorry" cards to force any other player to press the Big Red Pawn and pay a penalty. The "Safe Zone" wild cards can be played whenever, but they allow the NEXT player to choose the suit. "4s" and "10s" can reverse play order.
All in all a bit more luck-focused than Uno but there is a mild strategy here, if you can allow yourself to have fun long enough to find it. But fun AND VARIETY is the number one component here, so look further if one needs a much more strategic card game. Lastly, remember the random Big Red Pawn does not always penalize you, so getting a "Sorry" dished on you sometimes is the clincher for the win.
This game is a great addition to Hasbro's 2004 Holiday lineup, and should brighten up family gameplay for months (or years) to come--especially those families tired of playing Uno.

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Meet the big red pawn with attitude.If you're looking for politeness and fairness in a game, look somewhere else!The electronic talking pawn will guide you, goad you, and entertain you with his wisecracks and rude demands.On your turn, play one or more of you cards onto the discard pile by either playing a card of a matching color, playing cards in a numerical sequence, or playing a wild card.If you can't play any cards, you must tap the noggin of the big red pawn.Now you're at its mercy!It might tell you to take 1 card, or it might tell you to take 8!Sorry!Of course you know it's not really sorry at all!When you play the last card in your hand, you move one of your Sorry pawns into home.The first player to move all 4 Sorry pawns home, wins the game!Comes with Electronic talking pawn, Pawn stand and cardholder, Deck of cards, 16 Plastic pawns, 4 Home boards, and Game instructions.Requires 3 AAA batteries - not included.For 2 - 4 Players, Ages 6 and Up.

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