How do you play Time Capsule?

Gather three or more family members. Tap 'Draw a story' for a prompt. One player starts speaking when the 60-second timer begins. Pass the phone (or the floor) at the chime — the app cues passes at 45, 30, and 15 seconds remaining. When the buzzer sounds, save the story by writing or recording it.

How many people can play?

Three to ten is the sweet spot. The game is built for in-person play around a table. Larger groups can play with smaller speaking windows per person — the 60 seconds stays fixed, the family decides how to slice it.

Is Time Capsule free?

Yes. The full 30-card deck is free to play in any browser. No signup, no download. Premium members will get cloud archive (save your recorded sessions forever), printable PDF decks, and AI-generated custom decks tailored to their family history.

Sixty seconds is long enough for a real story but short enough that nobody loses the room. It also creates intentional handoffs — at 45, 30, and 15 seconds, the app chimes a 'pass the phone' cue. That mechanic forces everyone at the table to participate, including the quietest people.

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FAMILY STORYTELLING · FREE TO PLAY

Time Capsule.

One prompt. Sixty seconds. The family builds a memory together, out loud, before the buzzer. Three generations at one table. Three or more players. Any phone.

STORY 1 OF 30

30 STORIES · 60 SECONDS EACH · 3 OR MORE PLAYERS

The card gives a prompt. The family has sixty seconds to build the story together — pass the phone, pass the floor, pass the truth.

DISASTERS

The road trip that fell apart.

SWEETNESS

The quiet day nobody planned but everyone remembers.

ERAS

The summer everything changed.

HOW IT WORKS

A prompt. A timer. The family does the rest.

Draw a story

Tap the card. The prompt appears — a memory shape every family will recognize, no specifics required.

Pass the phone

One player starts. The app chimes at the 45, 30, and 15-second marks. That's when to hand off. Everyone speaks.

Save what you built

When the buzzer sounds, write it down or record a voice memo. The story is finite. The record makes it permanent.

Best played on Sundays, holidays, and any night when the family is already at the table.

WHY THIS GAME EXISTS

Families have thousands of stories. They tell maybe a hundred of them, ever. The rest disappear — not because they weren't worth telling, but because no one asked the right question on the right night.

Time Capsule is the right question, on the right night, every time. The deck has thirty prompts. Each one is a seed every family at every dinner table can grow. Some come back as comedy. Some come back as the kind of quiet your kid will remember in twenty years.

The sixty seconds is the gift. It's long enough to say something real. It's short enough that nobody loses the room. Pass it around. Save what you make.

COMING SOON — PREMIUM MEMBERS

Save every story your family ever tells.

Premium members get the Time Capsule cloud archive — every recorded session, every transcript, kept forever and searchable by year.

Plus printable decks, AI custom decks tailored to your family, and early access to new games.

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Time Capsule.

A prompt. A timer. The family does the rest.

Draw a story

Pass the phone

Save what you built

Save every story your family ever tells.

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