Send one private link
Each person adds one true memory, fact, or harmless in-joke about the birthday guest, from their phone, without making an account. They only ever see their own contribution.
Milestone birthday
A birthday game made from storiesonly their friends know.
The people in the room have forty years of material between them. This turns that into rounds, instead of into a slideshow nobody finishes.
Free while we are in beta. No card, no trial countdown, nothing to buy yet.
Friends contribute privatelyYou approve every detailNothing personal invented
Three steps, one evening of admin at most
Anyone can generate birthday trivia. Nobody can generate the night your housemate missed the last train, because that fact lives with the housemate.
Approve every detail
You see who sent what, reword anything clumsy, and block whole topics. Nothing reaches the room until you have said yes to it.
Print it or play it
Around 24 rounds, every one traced back to a contribution. Print on A4 or US Letter, or run it from the guests' phones.
A complete example, start to finish
Salma turns 40
Three people who have known Salma at different points in her life each added one true thing. This example is invented— no real party, and nobody's stories but ours. It is here so you can check every round against the contribution it came from.
What three people sent in
- Jules · university housemate
We missed the last train out of Florence on 6 September 2014 and spent the night in the station café.
- Maya · running club
Salma finished her first half marathon in Brighton after six weeks of training.
- Rob · her brother
She passed her driving test on the third attempt, in Dad's borrowed Fiat Panda.
What the pack came back with
Round 1 · How well do you know them?
Which city did Salma get stranded in after missing the last train?
Host's answer: Florence
✓ from Jules · approved by the organizer
Round 2 · Whose memory is it?
Somebody in this room watched Salma finish her first half marathon in Brighton. Who sent it in?
Host's answer: Maya
✓ from Maya · approved by the organizer
Round 3 · Put it in order
The night Salma spent in the Florence station café
Host's answer: 6 September 2014
✓ from Jules · approved by the organizer
Round 4 · How well do you know them?
How many attempts did Salma's driving test take?
Host's answer: Three
✓ from Rob · approved by the organizer
Round 5 · Secret missions
Get Salma's brother to describe the borrowed Fiat Panda without laughing.
No answer to mark — hand each guest a folded slip and let them complete it quietly during the party.
✓ from Rob · approved by the organizer
What this example prints
- Host guideEverything in order, with the answers. Keep this one to yourself.1 page · host only
- Question sheetWhat the room sees. Carries no answers.1 page · for the room
- Answer keyFor whoever is marking. One copy only.1 page · host only
- Score sheetTeam name at the top. Run one per team — 1 copy.1 page · host only
- Slips to cut upCut along the lines and fold. One slip per guest.1 page · for the room
Counted by the same layout that prints the real thing, on A4. A full pack of around 24 rounds runs longer.
Six mechanics, chosen to fit the material
You do not pick the game. The stories do.
A pack only uses the mechanics your contributions can support. Send in three dated memories and you get a timeline; send none and you do not.
How well do you know them?
Read the question aloud, then reveal the answer once everyone has locked in.
Print or phonesWhose memory is it?
Read the memory aloud and let the room guess who sent it in.
Print or phonesPut it in order
Read each moment aloud and have the room place it on the timeline.
Print or phonesSecret missions
Hand each guest a folded slip and let them complete it quietly during the party.
Print and host onlyGuess the photo
Show the picture and let the room work out the story behind it.
Print or phonesDraw it out
Give one guest the prompt and a pen; everyone else guesses what they sketch.
Print and host onlyWhat we ask you, before anyone else is invited
One question at a time, and none of them guesses.
- What name should appear in the games?
- Is there a nickname everyone knows?
- When is the celebration?
Then the settings: who is playing, what tone to take, print or phones, and anything to leave out entirely.
Free beta
Collect the stories now. The party can wait — the friends replying cannot.
Free while we are in beta. No card, no trial countdown, nothing to buy yet.