Cheston of Cheston's LiveJournal posted some pictures from the New Years party I mentioned in the last post. When I implied our New Years was full of Team Sorry!, I meant it!



This picture not only features Team Sorry! players Jon Wiener and Cheston, but also Jon's 1935 Sorry! board. The box proclaims it as the first edition to include rules for a "for points" variant of Sorry! Of course "for points" would eventually mutate into the sport of Team Sorry! we all love.

Another highlight is the 11 card. If you think the 11's in the 1980's edition of Sorry! is overly verbose, you are not going to believe this one. It refers to the players already on the board as "margin men" - a Sorry! vocab word that seems to have fallen out of mainstream use.

We spent much of the night imagining the games that the board had seen. On the inside of the box someone penciled on a list of names in elegant cursive. Is this the first written record of Sorry being played for points? If so, the board may be worth more than even if it's owner knows.

Thanks for bringing the board Jon. It was a pleasure and an honor to play on it.

(update: photo credit Gretchen Lohse, who is in the other pictures of the board on Cheston's LiveJournal!)

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