ANONYMOUS · FREE TO PLAY · NOTHING SAVED
The Ledger.
Each person privately writes one thing they owe at this table, and one thing they believe is owed to them. The app reads them all aloud — shuffled, anonymous, no names. No one wins. Everyone speaks. The conversation families avoid finally has a structure.
THE HARDEST GAME ON THIS PLATFORM · 3-8 PLAYERS
What do you owe? What are you owed?
Each person writes two answers, privately. The app shuffles them, strips every name, and reads them back to the table. No one knows who wrote what. No one wins. Everyone speaks.
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Nothing you type is saved or sent. It lives in this tab and disappears when you close it.
HOW IT WORKS
Private to write. Anonymous to hear. Erased when it's over.
01
Write privately
Pass the phone. Alone with the screen, each person types what they owe and what they're owed. No names. Nothing saved.
02
Read it back
The app shuffles every answer and removes every name. One person reads them aloud, slowly, one at a time.
03
Let it sit
Nobody reveals who wrote what. You don't solve it tonight. You just say it out loud — then the ledger closes.
Start with the lighter framings. Move to The Unsaid only when the table is ready.
WHY THIS GAME EXISTS
Most families carry a quiet ledger. Things owed. Things never repaid. The apology that never came, the sacrifice that never got named, the help one person always gives and never gets back. It builds up for years because there's no safe way to say it.
The Ledger makes a safe way. Anonymity does the hard part — you can finally name the thing without standing up and pointing. Everyone hears it. Nobody gets cornered. And because nothing is ever saved, people write the true answer instead of the polite one.
It will not fix a family in one night. It is not meant to. It is meant to put the unspoken thing in the middle of the table, out loud, where it can finally start to move.
THE STORY BEHIND THE GAME
The conversation my family kept not having.
Why I built a game around the word “owe” — and what anonymity unlocks that face-to-face never could.
Read the essay →COMING SOON — PREMIUM MEMBERS
Run it like a facilitator.
Premium members get printable facilitation guides, extra framings for specific moments — grief, reconciliation, new marriages, estranged siblings — and prompts you can tailor.
The game stays free and anonymous. Always.
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