Little One · the baby shower pack · Heart-to-heart & keepsakes
Advice in a Bottle
Everyone seals one piece of advice for the parents. It opens the next time this group plays — the first birthday, say.
- ~8 min
- 3–10 people
- One device, or phones
- In the Little One pack
- Ages 10+
What it feels like
New parents are given a great deal of advice, and most of it is gone by morning. Tonight's will be sealed, and kept. Here's what you do. Take a private turn each and write a short note to everyone here. The notes are sealed in the Almanac. The next time you meet, they're opened, and before anyone owns up, the room guesses who wrote each one. Every right guess scores two points. So write something true, and maybe a little hard to trace.
How to play
- Take a private turn each and write a short note to this group.
- The notes are sealed in the Almanac.
- They open the next time you meet, and the room guesses who wrote each one.
Scoring: When they open, 2 points for each right guess.
You'll get prompts like
- “Write one piece of advice for the parents' first year, to be opened next time we play”
- “Write what you hope the parents remember on a hard night, to be opened next time we play”
What you need
3 to 10 people and one phone, tablet or laptop to pass around — or everyone on their own phone in a room. Nothing to download, no accounts. The best lines can be sealed into your group's Almanac and come back in later games.
