Every city deserves its own card game.

A fast game of collecting property — charge rent, steal a set, refuse to pay. Name a city and we fill all 110 cards with its neighbourhoods and landmarks, a true fact on every property, and the people you love engraved on the money.

$16.00 $40.00 60% off + $6 shipping

See what is in a Block Party deck

We design it and send it to you within two days. Nothing is printed until you say so. $6 flat shipping, United States for now.

cards in every deck
110cards in every deck
property sets
10property sets
real places researched
28real places researched

How it works

From one question to a deck on the table.

  1. 1

    Tell us what it is about

    A city for Block Party, or the themes it carries for a deck you draw from. One screen, about a minute. Everything after it is ours.

    “Lebanon” is a country and also a town in Pennsylvania. Ambiguous names get a nudge.

  2. 2

    We design the whole deck

    Every card, front and back, painted to one art direction so the deck reads as a deck and not a folder of pictures. Within two days.

    The proof is the whole deck rather than a sample, so nothing arrives unseen.

  3. 3

    You change anything

    A name, a fact, an illustration, the back. Say what you want different and we redo it. Nothing goes near a printer until you say so.

    Changing one card repaints that card and leaves the rest of the deck alone.

  4. 4

    We print it and post it

    Printed on real playing-card stock with rounded corners, boxed and put in the mail. Nothing for you to print, and nothing to assemble at home.

    $6 flat shipping anywhere in the United States, however many cards the deck has.

What arrives

You choose it. We make it and post it.

There is nothing for you to print, cut or assemble. When you have said the deck is finished we run it, box it and put it in the mail, and what turns up is a real deck of cards.

  • A whole deck

    Every card, plus the ones that explain how to use it, so nobody has to look anything up on a website.

  • Made to be played with

    Real playing-card stock and rounded corners. It shuffles, it bends, it goes back in the box, and it does that all year.

  • Boxed and posted

    It arrives in a box ready to hand to somebody, rather than as a stack of card in an envelope for you to sort out yourself.

Shipping

A flat $6, however big the deck.

One price to post it, whether the deck is fifty cards or a hundred and ten. United States only for now.

Nothing is printed until you have seen the whole deck and said it is finished, so the thing you pay to post is the thing you approved.

A boxed deck with cards standing out of the box

The shelf

3 decks, and neither is off the shelf.

What sits behind them — research that fills a deck with real things, a typesetter that never misspells your city, and a print run that ends with a boxed deck in the post — was built to serve more than one.

Block Party

A game for 2–5

A fast game of collecting property, about a city you choose.

  • 110 cards
  • 10 property sets
  • About two minutes to build

$16.00 $40.00 60% off + $6 shipping

Mensajes del Universo

A deck to draw from

Algo que necesitas oír, y una pregunta de vuelta.

  • Choose your themes
  • One card a day, or a circle
  • In Spanish

$10.00 $25.00 60% off + $6 shipping

Pan de Cada Día

A deck to draw from

Una pregunta, una palabra de Dios y lo que quiere decirte hoy.

  • Six themes
  • A verse and a word back
  • In Spanish

$8.00 $20.00 60% off + $6 shipping

Questions

The things people ask first.

A fast card game about collecting property. Deal five cards each, draw two at the start of your turn and play up to three: money into your bank, property into your sets, or an action card at somebody. Rent is charged, sets get stolen and swapped, and a refusal card can stop any of it. First to three complete sets, in three different colours, wins.

Block Party takes about a minute to explain, and 4 quick-start cards come in the box, so the rules are in the box rather than on a website. Most people are playing properly by their second turn. The other decks are not games at all — you draw a card and read it.

You spend about a minute: pick a deck and answer one question. We design the whole thing and email it to you within two days. When you say it is finished we print it, box it and post it, and you get an email when it goes in the mail.

You see the whole deck before anything is printed, so tell us and we do it again. Shared names get asked about up front — “Lebanon” is both a country and a town in Pennsylvania, and the form asks which you mean.

A city works best, simply because there is more to find: 10 sets need 28 genuinely distinct places, and a small town runs thin. Countries and regions work well too. The card backs take a brief of their own, so the same deck can also be a birthday present or a wedding favour.

You do not print anything. We make it on real playing-card stock with rounded corners, box it and post it. Shipping is a flat $6 and we send to United States addresses for now.

Yes — that is what the proof is for. A name, a fact, an illustration, the back: say what you want different and we redo that card and leave the rest of the deck alone. Once a deck is on the press it is on the press, so we ask you to say it is finished before anything is made.

They go into private storage and are only ever reached through links that expire. Consent is an explicit checkbox recorded with a timestamp, and anyone without one is skipped rather than quietly used. Delete the deck and the photographs are deleted with it.

There are already more than one, and not all of them are games — a deck you draw one card from in the morning is a different thing from a deck you play with four people. What sits behind all of them is the same: something that fills a deck with real content, and a print run that ends with a boxed deck in the post.

The price is on each deck — it differs, because the decks do — and shipping is a flat $6 anywhere in the United States however many cards the deck has. Both are shown before you pay, and the whole deck is sent to you to approve before anything is printed. Nothing is charged twice and nothing is charged later.

Deal yourself in.

Pick a deck, tell us what it is about, and we send you the whole thing to look at within two days. Nothing is printed until you say it is finished, and shipping is a flat $6 anywhere in the United States.