They have everything. Except this.
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.
The hardest people to shop for are the ones who spent sixty years collecting stories instead of things. This gift for grandparents turns those stories into a real board game: the farmhouse, the '72 road trip, the Sunday dinners — painted onto the board, asked about on the cards, played by three generations at one table.
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.
Decades on one path — from how they met to last summer's reunion
Cards every generation can play — the grandkids learn the family legends
Large, readable cards and simple rules — nobody sits out
What a card actually looks like.
Grandkids only: who can name the farmhouse's address, street and all? Land within one house of it → advance 2. Maya confirms.
An illustrative example — yours is built from the place, person, or story you actually tell us.
Watch three generations land on the same square — 30 seconds.
Three steps to their sixty years, boxed.
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 grandparents 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.
Can multiple family members contribute stories?
Yes — one person owns the form, but most families pass a shared note around first and paste the best of it in. The studio sorts the timeline out.
Is it easy enough for kids and grandparents to play together?
Roll, move, draw a card, do what it says. If you can play a classic family board game, you can play this — the depth is in the stories, not the rules.
What if some memories are sensitive?
You control everything: a do-not-include list at intake, and full card-by-card approval before printing.
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- You approve every card before it prints
- Not right? We redraw it — or your money back
- Free US shipping