A text-message family story

Love, Gran

Your grandmother hands you her recipe box. Every card in it is cryptic, and every card hides a memory. The only way to decode them is to text the family.

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A young woman and her grandmother laughing together while cooking in her kitchen

A handwritten recipe card for Sunday Pot Roast, tucked in a recipe box

From Gran's recipe box

Every card hides a memory.

Text Mom, Uncle Joe, Cousin Meg and the rest of the family to decode a recipe and uncover the story behind it, one warm, funny conversation at a time.

How it plays

It's all texting. The whole game plays out as text conversations with your family. You choose what to say, and the story follows your choices.
One recipe card, one story. Each episode centres on a card from Gran's box. By the time you've decoded it, you know a little more about the people who cooked it.
Warm and funny, no drama. No death, no villains. Just the family stories worth passing down.

An illustrated portrait of Gran, in a warm orange style

Gran always answers, eventually.

She won't just tell you what's in the pot roast. She'll tell you who taught her, what kitchen it was in, and why nobody's allowed to say "the usual vegetables" out loud at Thanksgiving anymore.

Questions or feedback?

Stuck on a card, found a bug, or want to tell us about your own gran's recipes? We read everything.