Parchisi Stars: Fun Dice Game

Every corner has different rules. 1. Top right corner can advance a blockade every time, but the rest cannot. 2. If you get to a point where the only thing the human can do is advance a blockade, the program thinks you can, but it won't let you, so it freezes up. 3. It NEVER rolls a double 5. That's statistically impossible. 4. Worst problem: there is an ad that comes up at the om of the page and it has a flashing conversation bubble that never stops flashing, even if you click on the ad, then go back to the game. Soooo annoying and the only way to get rid of it is to reset the game.

Apart from the bugs other describe (needing to restart when no move is possible, and some weirdness on blocking), there are two things that stand out. First when playing online opponents I’ve never encountered anyone over level 3. I’m over level 70; am I the only one who stuck with the game despite the flaws. The other is a much bigger issue. After thousand of games, and many tens of thousands of rolls by me and opponents, I can say, anecdotally, that doubles occur far more often than a natural distribution would provide and, despite the high frequency of doubles, I have never rolled, or seen an opponent roll, a 5-5. This is so certain, that I will not hesitate to leave a man open 5 spaces ahead of an opponents home base, knowing they cannot both get a man out and hit me on one roll.

At some points, when there are no moves to make, the game says to make a move. So you need to restart the game.

There is a definite bug. If you have a spot blocked and throw doubles and it automatically moves one of your men and the only other move you have is the to move the other man the same number, it tells you to move that number of spaces instead of no moves and you are stuck there and have to reset the game. For instance, the guy 2 spaces ahead of me had a block. I only had 2 guys left and they were blocked 2 spaces behind his block. I threw double 1’s so it automatically moves one of my men 1space directly behind his block. Then it came up with the message to move one space. The man it moved was now blocked behind the blocked men and it wouldn’t let me move the other man 1 space because that would block again. There was no move I could make and the message wouldn’t go away so I had to reset.

This game has potential but it misses the mark especially where it forces blockades to be broken. That’s one of the primary strategies of the game! Some other details are off from the original board game, but that’s the one that makes it not worth playing.

I love this game. It it a joy to play. However when I play vs the computer, it lets the computer keep its block(2 men on the same space, especially coming out of the nest) as long as it wants. Where as when I have the same block it forces me to move the block. It’s very frustrating. I think it might be a bug. Many of your reviewers tell you the same problem about blocking while playing with the computer yet you do nothing to fix it and don’t even acknowledge that it’s a problem. Besides the fact that the computer cheats, it is also dumb. It doesn’t take logical move available to it and I win almost every time. This would be a really good app if you would fix these things.

Love this game for playing at a distance with friends and family. Even the odd rules are fun! However, I’ve noticed that the vs. computer has a lot of “doubles” rolls but frustratingly that never happens when playing friends!! A little thing that needs to be fixed :( Also, when playing with friends, it often disconnects before the end of the game and there’s no way to rejoin.

It’s an ok Parchisi game, but there are a couple of odd rules I’ve never heard of before. They aren’t huge deals but they change up the strategy. First, if you have a blockade and roll a doublet this game makes you break it up, which is a shame as blockades are an excellent tactic to hinder your opponents. Usually in Parchisi if you have all four of your pieces out in play and roll a doublet you get to move a total of 14 spaces. In this version you just move whatever you rolled and then roll again.

Computer cheats ! It doesn’t let me move critical men in a legitimate move if I made a block it breaks it then if I can move a man and block again it won’t let me move that man it makes me use a man that puts me out in the open when I could have made a safer move. Very irritating. Why does it stop me from moving any man I chose.

But I am not able to connect with Facebook, would it be great to link my profile and play with friends.