Aggravation (board game)

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designer=Lakeside Industries
publisher=Lakeside Industries (past)
Parker Brothers (present)
players=2-6
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Aggravation is a board game for up to six players in which the object is to be the first player to have all four playing pieces (usually represented by marbles) reach the player's home section of the board. The game's name comes from the action of capturing an opponent's piece by landing on its space, which is known as "aggravating."

"Aggravation" is one of the many variations of the game Pachisi. It was first produced in 1970 by Minneapolis-based Lakeside Industries, a division of Leisure Dynamic. Today, it is manufactured by Parker Brothers.

Its distinctive features are that the track that accommodates six players, unlike other Pachisi-like games which only allow four, that it is normally drilled to accept colored glass marbles as playing pieces, and that it incorporates "shortcuts." There are no "safe" holes where a player's marbles cannot be captured (or "aggravated," in the game's parlance) other than the player's own base and home sections.

Older versions of the game usually feature an asterisk-shaped board, which is perfectly symmetrical and identical in shape and size from all angles. However, modern versions of the game produced by Parker Brothers are made in an irregular pattern with a shape that varies for each player, though all players must travel an equal number of spaces in order to reach their respective home sections.

equence of play

The game starts with each player placing four marbles in his/her "base". After the order of play is determined through the rolling of the die, each player rolls a single die on each turn to determine the number of spaces to move. All marbles remain in the base until either a 1 or 6 is rolled, which entitles the player to move a marble from the base to his/her "start", the first step before entering the track. While this is considered a turn, and the move takes place in lieu of moving a marble that number of spaces, a six, if rolled, entitles a player to another turn whenever a legal move can be made.

The winner is the first player whose pieces all reach home by exact count.

hortcuts

Each of the inside corners near the center of the board is a "shortcut." A player landing a marble by exact count on one of the corner shortcuts has the option, on the next roll, of jumping from shortcut to shortcut, counting each jump as a single space, thereby speeding the path to the player's home.

The hole in the center of the board is known as the "super short cut." A player who is able to land a marble in this location by exact count has the option of taking a route even faster to home. The super short cut, though, has the drawback in that it may only be exited by rolling a 1.

Aggravating

A player who lands a marble on a space occupied by an opponent's marble "aggravates" that player's piece and sends it back to that player's base. A player's piece may be aggravated whether it is on a "start" space, the regular track, or a shortcut. No piece is safe from aggravation until it reaches home.

Players are prohibited during the game from moving one marble of theirs past another on the track.

ee also

*Sorry
*Kimble
*Ludo
*Parcheesi
*Trouble
*Wahoo

External links

[http://boardgameswiki.com/index.php?title=Aggravation BoardGamesWiki]