Fabulously Fun Board Games Like Sorry

The best board game like Sorry! for most families is Camel Up: it keeps the race, the dice and the pile-ups, but you bet on the camels instead of pushing your own pawn, so nobody spends an hour getting sent back to Start. If you want Sorry’s exact bones, Parcheesi is the game Sorry was adapted from; for the youngest players, Trouble. Below are ten games ranked by how much of Sorry’s roll-and-move luck they keep, from the ones that keep all of it to the ones that drop the dice entirely.

Our standing complaint with the classics is the roll-and-move race itself. The deduction in Clue holds up; the dice race around the mansion does not, and a modern design would simply drop it. Sorry is the best of that family because the cards let you choose which pawn moves and when to say the word, so the list below is really a question of what each game puts in place of the roll: a bet, a gear choice, a hand of cards, or nothing at all.

The Top 10 Games Like Sorry

Parcheesi

Ages 8+ · 2–4 players

Parcheesi is the game Sorry! was built on: the American version of Pachisi, the Indian race game that is many centuries old. Each player moves four pawns from their nest around the cross-shaped board and home, entering only on a five, bumping opponents back to their nest and forming blockades with two pawns on one space. The one structural difference from Sorry is that Parcheesi rolls two dice where Sorry draws a card, so there is no choosing which pawn moves and no card that lets you say the word. It is the purest answer to “a game like Sorry” on this list, and the one grandparents already know how to play.

Winning Moves’ Royal Edition is the version sold new; its box lists 2 to 4 players and ages 8 and up, which is more conservative than Sorry’s 6+, mostly because of the two-dice arithmetic.

Trouble

Ages 5+ · 2–4 players

Trouble is Sorry with the cards replaced by the Pop-O-Matic bubble, and for a five-year-old that bubble is most of the appeal. Pop a six to leave Home, race four pegs around the track, land on an opponent to send their peg back, and get all four into Finish first. There are no decisions beyond which peg to move, which is exactly why it works at an age where Sorry’s cards still need reading.

Hasbro’s current box lists ages 5 and up for 2 to 4 players. If you have a four-year-old at the table, see Funny Bunny below, which is the one game here rated for that age.

Aggravation

Ages 6+ · 2–6 players

Aggravation is the marble version of the same race, and the one to pick when you have five or six players, since Sorry, Trouble and Parcheesi all stop at four. Each player races four marbles from Base to Home on a single die, landing on an opponent sends their marble back to Base, and the board adds shortcuts: a center hole that can leapfrog a marble most of the way around, and the star holes that connect the corners. The shortcuts are the reason to own it over Trouble. Taking the center hole is a real gamble, because you can only leave it by rolling a one, so there is at least one real decision in the game.

Winning Moves’ retro-artwork edition is the one in print; its box lists 2 to 6 players, ages 6 and up.

Funny Bunny

Ages 4+ · 2–4 players

Funny Bunny (Ravensburger, sold in Europe as Lotti Karotti) is a race to the carrot at the top of the hill, and it is the only game on this list rated for four-year-olds. There are no dice. On your turn you draw a card: most move one of your bunnies one, two or three hops, and some tell you to turn the carrot, which opens and closes holes in the hill. A bunny standing on a hole that opens drops out of sight, and a bunny that gets sent home is the game’s version of being bumped in Sorry.

The turn-the-carrot moment is the whole game for a preschooler, and it is a genuinely good first lesson in luck, since the player who turns it has no idea who will fall. For more games at that age, see our best board games for preschoolers.

Monopoly Junior

Ages 5+ · 2–4 players

Monopoly turns up on every list of games like Sorry because it is the other roll-and-move game everyone owns, and in our view it is the wrong recommendation. Player elimination plus a running time that can pass two hours is a fatal mismatch for the Sorry crowd, and the good ideas in Monopoly would be better served by a fifteen-minute card game (that game exists; it is called For Sale, and it is on our best board games like Monopoly list).

Monopoly Junior is the version that actually belongs here. It keeps the roll, the loop and the buying, cuts the money to single bills, and ends the moment one player runs out of cash, so a game lasts about as long as a game of Sorry. Hasbro lists it for ages 5 and up, 2 to 4 players.

Camel Up

Ages 8+ · 3–8 players · 30–45 minutes

Camel Up is our pick for most families, and the reason is simple: it keeps everything people like about Sorry and removes the thing they do not. Five camels race once around a pyramid on dice that drop out of a cardboard pyramid one at a time, and when a camel lands on an occupied space it climbs on top, so the stack moves together and the top camel is winning. You never push your own pawn. Every turn you either shake out a die for a coin or bet on which camel will lead at the end of the leg or the race, and the earlier you bet, the more it pays.

So the luck is still dice luck, the pile-ups still swing the race, but there is nothing to be sent back to Start and nobody is out. It also scales where Sorry cannot: the second edition plays 3 to 8, and at our table it is the eight-player answer (with four we reach for Long Shot: The Dice Game instead). Our full Camel Up review covers the second-edition changes.

Formula D

Ages 8+ · 2–10 players · 60 minutes

Formula D keeps the dice but lets you choose which one to roll. Each gear has its own die: first gear moves one or two spaces, sixth gear moves up to thirty. You shift up or down each turn and roll the die for your gear, then the corners punish you: every corner has a stop count, and a car that passes through it in fewer stops than printed takes damage to its tires or brakes. Blow enough and you are out of the race. Landing on another car does nothing, but sitting in front of one does, since it cannot pass through you.

That is the Sorry roll with a decision in front of it, and it is the game here for an older kid or an adult who still likes dice. It plays up to ten, which no other game on this list does, though a ten-player race is a long afternoon.

Availability note (checked 31 October 2026): the Formula D listing this page used to link shows as currently unavailable on Amazon, with a single third-party copy, so the button above opens a search instead of a product page.

Downforce

2–6 players (publisher) · ages and time not stated on the publisher page

Downforce is a card-driven race: the publisher, Restoration Games, calls it “our restoration of Wolfgang Kramer’s classic,” a design that has been in print under various names for roughly forty years. Players bid on cars before the race, then play cards from a hand that move several cars at once, including your opponents’, so the planning is in holding the card that moves your car four spaces until it also stalls theirs. Three times during the race everyone bets secretly on the winner, and the richest player at the end, not the first car across the line, wins. It has none of Sorry’s luck of the roll and all of its blocking.

Availability note (checked 31 October 2026): Restoration Games lists Downforce as out of print and out of stock on its own store, so we have not placed a purchase button on it and you should expect secondary-market pricing. Formula D above fills the same racing slot with dice, Camel Up with betting. More of the genre is on our best racing board games list.

Galaxy Trucker

Ages 8+ · 2–4 players · 30 minutes

Galaxy Trucker is on this list for the racing feel, not the rules, which share nothing with Sorry. Czech Games Edition describes it as a “fast and goofy family game.” In the first half of a round everyone grabs tiles from a shared pile at the same time, racing in real time to bolt a spaceship together out of engines, cannons, batteries and crew cabins. In the second half the ships fly a route of event cards, and whichever pieces you attached badly fall off in the asteroid fields. After three flights the trucker with the most credits wins, and the best moments are the ships that lose half their hull on the first card.

It replaces dice luck with time pressure, which is a different kind of chaos and one a lot of Sorry families take to immediately. The second edition is the current printing; CGE lists it for 2 to 4 players, ages 8 and up, about 30 minutes.

Availability note (checked 31 October 2026): the Galaxy Trucker listing this page used to link has no Amazon buy box, only third-party sellers, so the button above opens a search instead of a product page.

Tokaido

Ages 8+ · 2–5 players · 45 minutes

Tokaido is the game on this list that drops the roll entirely, and it is here for the people who like the idea of a journey along a track but not the dice. Everyone travels the same road across Japan from Kyoto to Edo, stopping at inns, temples, hot springs and panoramas. You move as far forward as you like, and the player furthest back always goes next, so rushing ahead costs you turns. Each stop is worth points in its own way, and a stop another traveler is standing on is closed to you, which is as close as Tokaido comes to Sorry’s bumping.

It is calm where Camel Up is loud, which makes it the one to put in front of a player who found Sorry a little mean. The 10th Anniversary edition from Funforge is the one sold new, listed for 2 to 5 players, ages 8 and up, about 45 minutes.

Which Game Like Sorry Should You Buy?

If the players are five or six: Trouble, or Funny Bunny for a four-year-old. If you want Sorry’s rules with dice: Parcheesi, or Aggravation for five or six players. If the adults are bored of Sorry: Camel Up first, Formula D if they want to keep rolling, Tokaido if they would rather not roll at all. Skip full-size Monopoly for this crowd; it solves the wrong problem.

Sorry itself still earns its place on the shelf, and it sits alongside its relatives on our list of the best classic board games. If you are shopping for the whole family rather than one age, start with the best family board games, which sorts games by who can run them rather than by the age on the box.

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