When you commit to a board game, time disappears in a roll of the dice. With Parcheesi, as with most games, what becomes paramount is to scoot around the board. Moving four markers, pawns they're called, before one's opponent does. The best thing to do is to grab the dice and roll. The rules return when the dice are spinning out of the cup.
Dice make a board game.
That's what Parcheesi has over a game like Sorry. Sorry has cards, Parcheesi dice. There's nothing like the simple pleasure of hurtling the dice from the small cylindrical yellow cup. The sound of dice hitting the board is addicting. So is the sound of the pawns skipping over each part of the board.