Sorry, not Sorry!

Very cleverly done!

Solution: To solve the meta, as 51A suggests, you need to "re-solve" certain answers in the grid. There are seven marked with numbers in parentheses telling how many letters the answer is. All of them are games (most are "old classic" games and the last is "a less familiar strategy game"): 20A Twister; 26A Risk; 30A Othello; 43A Uno; 46A Boggle; 55A Life; and 64A Elysium. The first letter from these spell T-R-O-U-B-L-E (Trouble), a classic table game. Sorry, not Sorry! ;)

Bingo!

My favorite was Operation.

I experienced no Aggravation with this puzzle! Well done!

Loved it! Sorry was my favorite game to play with my young granddaughter. The way she would say "sorry" when sending you to start -- you knew she wasn't sorry at all. This was a great meta. Thanks, Darth!

Hmm, Alan does "Connect Four" last week, and Darth has "Trouble" this week. I guess no one has a "Monopoly" on board games.

Needed helpful partners and a backsolve. I do know Scrabble though.

LOL. I spent way too much time trying to make something out of the last letters of each game while the answer was staring me right in the face! Perhaps another cup of coffee. Fun one, Darth!

WELL DONE!

Ahhh... 55A was my way in because when filling the grid I tried to fit LIFE.

Fun one!

Really liked this one -- tried twister first at 20A, and that gave me a CLUE as to what was going on. Thanks for the puzzle, Darth!

At first I guessed Othello because of Macbeth and Yellow, but then I saw it. I was not familiar with Elysium.

Couldn't back solve boggle and maybe have of haven't heard (but an obvious alternative) of the game Elesiam (um, is that the newer "european-style" with tiles?) but otherwise right up me wheelhouse.

You play a game every day? Whom with? I think I've been cursed to always belong to units who don't actually like games when I love them. My wife like WingSpan because of the birds but... that's it. It's the only one she can stand.

Solving metas is not a trivial pursuit!

Anmazing that you could find grid counterparts with the same numbers of letters and where the same clue fit. I was also surprised to find that I had at least once played each of them except the last one, which I had never heard of.

Nice one. Got it from RISK/OTHELLO/UNO.

This was too cool. Great puzzle, Darth.

Fun. Given 51A (and the fact that I initially had TORNADO at 20A) I started by just trying to find alternate answers, but the next one was RISK and then the true mechanism clicked. Never heard of TORNADO or ELYSIUM as a board game, but they googled ok, so then I backsolved BOGGLE and LIFE. Never converted TORNADO to TWISTER, though I probably would have if the first letter was off. Initially didn't notice that the parentheticals weren't consecutive, so didn't pick up on that hint until I was trying to back solve. Nice idea, thanks.

Tricky, Darth; but you couldn't pin the tail on this donkey! (I know; not exactly a table game, but, hey, childhood!) Lots of fun! Thanks!

Loved this one. I saw CHEX and thought maybe it will become CHESS, but that was a dead end. A friend nudged me off the couch. I love the random - you don’t know what the puzzle topic will be- of our puzzles. Yesterday Wendy had us in the doctor’s office, today we’re playing board games. What fun!

It should have been a piece of CANDY LAND but I was at my WIT"S END. It was an ENIGMA to me until I got a CLUE!

Solved but missed the elegance of the meta - that the re-solution set were games. (I had “Tornado” for the T and backsolved the B and L) Sorry I didn’t quite get there as intended (not sorry that I solved!)

Never ever bored with a Darth meta. Just imagine a party with all your games and all these solvers. That would boggle the mind!

Guess who found this to be more fun than a barrel of monkeys, once she figured out the operation? Me! Hands down a favorite — a masterpiece!

^ my comment above contains FIVE favorite games from childhood, by the way, for those looking. ( :

Lovely puzzle!! Great fill and neat concept. I tried to enter OTHELLO at first and changed to MACBETH and I had ELYSIAN (because one of my favorite walks in Paris is Champs Elysées, literally Elysian Fields). Once I tumbled to the "hey these all seem to be games" (VERY SLICK!!!) I got stuck because I forgot to circle the DARE/RISK answer so I had TOUBLE. Since I know of hte game TROUBLE I went back and looked.

Great Monday challenge

I was glad I was able to solve or I'd have had to have "Words with Friends"!

It took me awhile to see what you were doing. Very clever! I really liked this one. Thank you!

Everything was in FLUXX, until I noticed that UNO was a synonym for ONE. If I'd known/remembered that Elysium was a game, I might have gotten there even more quickly because I didn't recall anything about Arcadian Fields and I definitely wanted to put Risk in for Dare.

Very nice, thank you! What a wild meta strategy.

I actually "solved" several of the themers before recognizing the theme, putting them in the grid and then erasing them when they conflicted with the downs.