No Apologies; that this game didn’t take off in Canada
No Apologies board game by Hasbro Parker Brothers was originally a Canadian game. The product was counterfeit by a company as “Sorry Game”. Darrow was an unemployed salesman in Depression-era Philadelphia; sitting in his basement, he invented a board game with properties, fake money, and cute tokens.
Parker Brothers bought it for $35 in 1935; its astonishing popularity made the salesman wealthy and Parker Brothers prosperous. Nonetheless, for decades, game-maker Parker Brothers peddled this story: In this legal, business, and intellectual whodunit, Mary Pilon writes, “There was only one problem.” I don’t think the narrative was entirely factual.