The anniversary gift that replays your best years.
We help people connect more deeply with the ones they love — by turning the life you've already lived together into the game you play together.
A personalized anniversary gift should prove you were paying attention. This one does it square by square: the restaurant from year one, the apartment with the broken heater, the trip that almost went wrong — illustrated onto a real 16″ board, with challenge cards written from your own memories. Play your anniversary instead of just toasting it.
The cards call people out by name — and every one passes our Table Test before it prints.
✓ You approve every card before it prints 🔒 Photos deleted after shipping 🚚 Free US shipping (Standard & up)
Conversation starters hand you a question and hope. We hand you your own story.
Your real places, hand-illustrated on the board — the café, the city, the trip
Challenge cards about the two of you — reenact the proposal, settle old debates
You approve every card and the full board before anything prints
What a card actually looks like.
Maya & Sam: reenact the toast from your very first anniversary dinner, word for word if you can. Table votes: convincing? Both advance 2.
An illustrative example — yours is built from the place, person, or story you actually tell us.
Watch year one become square one — 30 seconds.
Three steps to your anniversary board.
Pick a package
Digital, Standard, Deluxe or Whole Story — checkout takes under a minute, right here.
Tell us your story
A private link opens right after checkout: places, milestones, inside jokes. Messy bullets are perfect.
We craft it, you approve
Read every card, see the full board. Nothing prints until you say so.
Ready when you are.
Build it right here.
The whole story, boxed like an heirloom
Checkout first, then your private story form — you approve every card before anything prints.
Ordering for a date? Boxed games arrive in about 2–3 weeks — Rush runs ~10 days ($29).
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We're new — and you'd be one of the first. StoryBeacon is a small studio, and every board so far has been made by hand for someone we know. No stock reviews, no borrowed hype. Just this: you see and approve every card and the full board before anything prints. If it isn't right, we redraw it.
Build my game →Asked before every anniversary order
Isn't this like those conversation-card decks?
We love them. They proved millions of people want deeper conversations at the table — and they were right. Their cards just have one structural problem they can never solve: they're printed a million times, so they have to work for a million tables. Which means they can never work for yours. They can ask you a great question about family traditions. They cannot ask you about the '72 road trip, or the apartment with the broken heater, or the fact that Dad still hasn't admitted he got everyone lost in Rome. Conversation starters hand you a question and hope. We hand you your own story.
How long does it take?
Boxed games arrive in about 2–3 weeks door to door on the standard queue. Cutting it close? Rush (~10-day queue, $29) usually saves the date — and a gift card delivers in about a minute when nothing else can.
What if I'm not good at writing?
You don't write anything — you brain-dump. Messy bullet points about your years together are exactly what the studio wants. We do the crafting; you approve the result.
Can it cover many years, not just one?
Absolutely — most anniversary boards span the whole relationship. Ten years fits on one path beautifully.
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- You approve every card before it prints
- Not right? We redraw it — or your money back
- Free US shipping