Aggravation is the classic marble race game. Get a lucky roll and take a shortcut home, but watch out, or you'll have to start over!

This popular family game lets you aggravate everyone you know, because you know they'll try to aggravate you, too! In this classic 30-year-old game, you race your marbles around the board. Just roll the dice and start moving - the first player to get all four of their marbles from their base to their home wins the game. Take shortcuts to zip ahead or try the super shortcut to shoot across the board. Along the way, aggravate your opponents by sending them back to their base - but watch out, next time it might be you!

For 2 to 6 players, ages 6 and up.

Aggravation is the classic marble race around a star shape, from base to home sweet home. It's always tempting to take a shortcut, but beware! An opponent might be waiting for just such an opportunity to aggravate. By landing on another player's marble, anyone can send that marble back to its base to start over. And this could be a serious setback, since the object is to get all four marbles back home before the others do. Each player rolls the die and moves a marble around the board, choosing along the way whether to aggravate another player, take a shortcut (or super shortcut!), or just try to quietly slide by (good luck with that approach!). The game includes 24 marbles, 18.5-by-18.5-inch game board, die, and instructions.

Aggravation Rules

Official rules to Aggravation, from Hasbro, the publisher of the game. In PDF format.

Additional information about the game of Aggravation, including photos.

Wahoo is the original version of the popular board game which swept the United States over 40 years ago, and eventually became the trademarked games of Parcheesi, Aggravation, and Sorry. Wahoo was played on homemade boards with 16 marbles and 1 die. Shareware from SpinnerBaker Software.

Note: Aggravation is closely related to several other similar games in which you move marbles around a game board. These include Parcheesi, Sorry!, and Trouble.