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Andy {Avid Gamer}
Oct 22nd, 2011| Rule
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“Potential Handicap for Adults when Playing Kids”

If you’re a player that likes to give younger players a bit of an advanated against adults, you can use the following handicap.

When a roller pawn ends up going off the board, or into a sorry pit, have kids move a scoring pawn back one point, while adults move back to start

As kids get older, you can give more of a penalty to the sorry pits. If you have kids of different ages, you can make the penatly different, though I would tend towards an “adults” and a “kids” scoring.

Alternatively, if you don’t like giving an advantage to younger kids, but don’t want to discourage them with lost points, you can ignore the penalty altogether, just saying pawns that land in the sorry pit areas, or go off the board, are worth zero points.

You can even decide to have the sorry pits on different colored scoring boards be played differently. This way, you can tailor the game to the level of the people playing it!

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Andy {Avid Gamer}
Oct 22nd, 2011| Rule
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“Pseudo Curling Sorry Sliders Variant”

I’ve been on the lookout for games that simulate curling. Sorry Sliders gave me a chance to make something that at least gives a partial feeling of curling. You can’t really get the “curl” part, but you can use some blocking strategy.

For two players (or four players in teams of two), use the track setup where all four straight sections line up giving a long lead up into the scoring section. Each player/team gets two colors of pieces (8 total roller pawns). You then alternate pushing your roller pawns down the track; with scoring based on the pawns closest to the center of the scoring area (I would suggest the blue scoring section).

For this variant, it allows you to use your pawns to block by leaving them partway down the track. You can also bump people off the scoring circles, and into the “sorry pits”. I tend to use curling scoring as opposed to trying to get scoring pawns into the “home” area, but you can use that board to keep score.

It’s certainly not a perfect simulation, but the blocking and targeting of other pawns makes for a fun, quick game!

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Jay Atkinson {Family Gamer}
Apr 3rd, 2014| Rule
“Go easy on the "crossing the line" rule with young kids.”

The goal of Sorry Sliders is really just to have fun. Really young kids can sometimes struggle with staying behind the line on their shot. If they aren’t blatantly going over the line a long way, just let it slide and just have fun together!

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