Send one private link
Each person adds one true thing about them from your years working together, from their phone, without making an account. They only ever see their own contribution.
Retirement send-off
Decades of colleagues,one round each.
The best material is spread across people who barely overlapped. A private link lets each of them add their one story without a group email thread.
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Friends contribute privatelyYou approve every detailNothing personal invented
Three steps, one evening of admin at most
A career is exactly the kind of history no model has. The apprentice knows about the biscuit tin; the night shift knows about the snowstorm.
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
Dele's last day at the depot
Forty years of colleagues, three of whom could still be bothered to write something down. 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
- Yemi · colleague since 1998
Dele started on the depot shop floor on 4 August 1986 and finished as head of the depot.
- Priti · apprentice he trained
He kept a biscuit tin in his desk drawer and never once admitted to refilling it.
- Sam · night shift
He drove the entire night shift home through a snowstorm rather than let anyone wait for a bus.
What the pack came back with
Round 1 · How well do you know them?
What year did Dele start on the depot shop floor?
Host's answer: 1986
✓ from Yemi · approved by the organizer
Round 2 · Put it in order
Dele's first day on the shop floor
Host's answer: 4 August 1986
✓ from Yemi · approved by the organizer
Round 3 · How well do you know them?
What did Dele keep in his desk drawer?
Host's answer: A biscuit tin
✓ from Priti · approved by the organizer
Round 4 · Whose memory is it?
Somebody here got driven home through a snowstorm instead of waiting for a bus. Who sent it in?
Host's answer: Sam
✓ from Sam · approved by the organizer
Round 5 · Secret missions
Get Dele to admit, on the record, who refilled the biscuit tin.
No answer to mark — hand each guest a folded slip and let them complete it quietly during the party.
✓ from Priti · 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?
- Which career highlights are safe to mention?
- When is the retirement 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.