Questions for the whole dinner table, from grandparents to teenagers.
Our family has one habit that makes no sense to outsiders. How did it start?
Family is written for the whole table at once. If you could keep only one family tradition, which one survives? Which inside joke would you have to explain to a stranger first? Who does the invisible work that keeps this family running?
Most cards suit teenagers, parents and grandparents alike, and younger children can answer plenty of them. For kids under ten, Kids' Corner is the better fit. Put the phones in another room and let the youngest person read the first card.
We could only keep one family tradition. Which one survives?
When you picture all of us together, which day comes back first?
What important value have you learned from our family?
How has your role in the family changed over the years?
Which family vacation has stuck in your mind the best?
A stranger sits down at this table. Which inside joke do we explain first?
What have you learned from your parents/siblings?
What tradition would you like to pass on to your own family?
What are you most grateful for in this family?
How did this family get through its hardest stretch?
Which holiday do you look forward to most in the year and why?
When did you feel the family supported you one hundred percent?
Where are you most like your mother or father?
Where do you differ most from the rest of the family?
What story did your grandparents tell that has stuck in your mind?
What is the best advice you have received from a family member?
What food tastes like "home"?
What do you wish you knew about the people who came before us?
Is there something in the family that has been hard to let go of?
What are you proudest of in our family?
Our family has one habit that makes no sense to outsiders. How did it start?
What is our family's "theme song"?
Which object in this family would cause the biggest fight if it disappeared?
How do we best show respect to each other?
When did this family change the most, and did anyone see it coming?
What do you hope for our family in the next 10 years?
What is our family's "worst kept secret"?
What has adulthood taught you about family relationships?
Where is this family genuinely strong, in a way most families are not?
If you could say something to the whole family now, what would it be?
Which memory with your siblings or cousins still makes you laugh?
Who in the family is the "peacemaker", "entertainer", or "voice of reason"?
You inherited something here that you cannot hold in your hands. What is it?
What did you disagree with your parents about when young, but understand them now?
What topic was never spoken about in our family?
Which family legend do you quietly think has been exaggerated?
Who does the invisible work that keeps this family running?
If one photo was taken of our family that tells everything, what would it be like?
What do you respect most in your parents/siblings?
How do you want our family to remember you?
If you could spend a day with one deceased relative, who would it be?
What trait would you like to ensure is passed to the next generation?
What has been the most difficult conversation you have had with a family member?
How would you like our family to change in the future?
Who do you turn to first in your family when you are having a hard time?
What does your family not know about you?
Where in your childhood home did you go when you wanted to be alone?
Which rule in your childhood home was never up for negotiation?
Which family recipe do you want to learn?
Which family member should you call more often?
What is the story behind your name?
How did arguments usually start in your childhood home?
Who has been the black sheep of the family, and what earned them the title?
When did you last feel pride in your family publicly?
What is a weird habit you have inherited from your family?
What makes a family a family?
Where should our family travel together?
How do we apologize in our family?
What is your first memory of your grandparents?
What would you like to teach your children that you didn't learn yourself?
Going through every card takes about 25–40 min, but there's no need to finish in one sitting. The deck runs in your browser with nothing to install, and your place is saved on this device, so you can stop and pick it up later.