Games & Us — Challenges for Nights Offline
Games & Us — Challenges for Nights Offline
- 1 vs 1 challenges built for exactly two people
- WINNER and POINTS box on every page
- No advice, no feelings homework — just play
Couldn't load pickup availability
Free U.S. shipping on every order.
⚠️Only 21 left — once we’re out, we’re out
“Meant to do one. He got competitive on the guessing round and we couldn’t stop. First night in months my phone stayed face down on the counter.”
“My wife has bought us three of those question books. This is the first one I actually wanted to open, because there’s a score.”
“He lost the scavenger round and had to give me three compliments out loud. He was so annoyed and I was so happy.”
“Dinner, dishes, one page. Twenty minutes. It’s dumb how much we look forward to it.”
“No sitter, no reservation, no $80 dinner where we both look at our phones. Same laughs for the price of a book.”
“The pages are filled in with both our handwriting now. I’m not throwing this book away. Ever.”
What’s Inside
What’s Inside
109-page softcover, 8 × 10 inches. Two players only.
Challenge types: How Well Do You Know Me (Player 1 vs Player 2), quick-fire duels, creative battles, riddles, surprise quizzes, Confess or Forever Hold Your Peace (two truths and a lie), The Mystery Cipher, the two-minute scavenger duel, pick-your-vibe rounds, logic puzzles, drawing games and word games. Every challenge has a WINNER line and a POINTS line. A final champion page closes the book.
How It Works
How It Works
Phones face down. Open to any page. Read the round out loud. Play it — write, guess, race, decode. Score it. Write the winner’s name.
One page or ten, your call. Keep a running tally and crown the champion when you finish the book.
Shipping & Guarantee
Shipping & Guarantee
Free U.S. shipping, 8–16 days.
30-day money-back guarantee: if it doesn’t get you two laughing, email us and we refund the full price. Keep the book.
What couples say after page one
Danielle R.✓Verified Buyer"We played four pages the first night"
"Meant to do one. He got competitive on the guessing round and we couldn’t stop. First night in months my phone stayed face down on the counter."
Marcus T.✓Verified Buyer"Finally something that isn’t a ‘talk’"
"My wife has bought us three of those question books. This is the first one I actually wanted to open, because there’s a score."
Priya S.✓Verified Buyer"The compliment duel got him"
"He lost the scavenger round and had to give me three compliments out loud. He was so annoyed and I was so happy."
Jenna & Cole✓Verified Buyer"Our new Tuesday thing"
"Dinner, dishes, one page. Twenty minutes. It’s dumb how much we look forward to it."
Alyssa M.✓Verified Buyer"Better than a date night out"
"No sitter, no reservation, no $80 dinner where we both look at our phones. Same laughs for the price of a book."
Renee K.✓Verified Buyer"We keep the score on purpose"
"The pages are filled in with both our handwriting now. I’m not throwing this book away. Ever."
Danielle R.✓Verified Buyer"We played four pages the first night"
"Meant to do one. He got competitive on the guessing round and we couldn’t stop. First night in months my phone stayed face down on the counter."
Marcus T.✓Verified Buyer"Finally something that isn’t a ‘talk’"
"My wife has bought us three of those question books. This is the first one I actually wanted to open, because there’s a score."
Priya S.✓Verified Buyer"The compliment duel got him"
"He lost the scavenger round and had to give me three compliments out loud. He was so annoyed and I was so happy."
Jenna & Cole✓Verified Buyer"Our new Tuesday thing"
"Dinner, dishes, one page. Twenty minutes. It’s dumb how much we look forward to it."
Alyssa M.✓Verified Buyer"Better than a date night out"
"No sitter, no reservation, no $80 dinner where we both look at our phones. Same laughs for the price of a book."
Renee K.✓Verified Buyer"We keep the score on purpose"
"The pages are filled in with both our handwriting now. I’m not throwing this book away. Ever."
About Donna
Donna Hale has spent nineteen years sitting across from couples. Most of them in long marriages. Most of them not in any trouble at all.
She didn’t write this book. Somebody else did, and she found it the way her clients find it — looking for something that wasn’t another list of questions.
What nineteen years of notes told her is that the couples who stay warm aren’t the ones who talk the most. They’re the ones where something still happens between them that ends with somebody ahead.
She keeps a stack in the cabinet behind her desk now. She hands one out most weeks.
Start Tonight
Why this works when talking doesn’t
Two people don’t go quiet because they stopped caring. They go quiet because nothing that happens between them ends with anybody ahead.
Dinner, the car, whose turn it is to call back. There is no winning any of it and no losing it either. It’s a tie every night, and a tie gives you nothing to talk about in the morning.
A conversation can be nodded at. A point on the table cannot. He isn’t being asked how he feels. He’s being asked to beat you at something.
Start Tonight
What is actually on a page
A hundred and nine pages, and every one is a self-contained round. You don’t start at the front and you don’t need to remember where you left off.
- The challenge — one line at the top. No instructions to read out.
- Two sides — Player 1 and Player 2 on the same sheet.
- Space to write, in pen. You can’t change an answer once his is down.
- POINTS — a box each.
- WINNER — one name on the line at the bottom.
And one champion page at the very back. Somebody signs it, and the book is finished.
Start TonightEight kinds of showdown. One winner.
Every page is one of these. Open it anywhere.
What one night actually looks like
Dishes are done. You open it wherever it falls and read the challenge out loud. That’s the whole setup.
Two truths and a lie. He writes his down, you write yours, and both of you are trying too hard to look normal. He catches yours. You don’t catch his. He takes the point and says he knew immediately, which isn’t true.
Next page is a drawing round. Somewhere around minute eleven somebody says best of five, and nobody agreed to best of five.
Twenty minutes. Then he brings up the score again in the morning.
Start TonightThe Book By The Numbers
Six Rounds, Played In Order
Page 1
Your first duel
The cipher
The confession round
Halfway tally
The champion page
Play a week of pages. If it doesn’t get you two laughing, we refund it.
Seven nights, seven pages. If the phones win anyway, email us within 30 days for a full refund. Keep the book.
Your nights are not boring. They’re just on two screens.
109 pages of showdowns for the two of you. Points, a winner, a champion at the end. Free U.S. shipping and 30 days to change your mind.
Free U.S. shipping · 30-day money-back guarantee
Amberton
Want to access your game night credit?
Sign up and win up to 80% OFF