From the makers of Fox Tales · the boxed edition

A party game that needs no signal, no power and no charger

Question cards about the people at your table, plus a dry-erase board and a score counter for every player. No app, no account, nothing to charge — just the box, the table and a marker.

We are collecting a waitlist for the boxed edition. Signing up is free and commits you to nothing.

We only write when there is something to say — no newsletter, no nudges. A reply to any of our emails takes you off the list.

The data controller is Hubert Górski, contact: office@foxtales.cc. We process your name and email address solely to tell you about work on the boxed edition of the game, on the basis of your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You can withdraw that consent at any time by writing to us. Details in our Privacy Policy.

A table with a deck of cards, dry-erase boards in orange frames, a marker and three score counters — one board has a name written on it
A visualisation. The real game is still being made.

We are not starting from scratch

  • The browser game already runs

    Fox Tales runs in the browser today: questions about you, anonymous answers, voting and the big reveal. The box moves that same game onto cards, boards and counters.

  • We are not collecting money

    There is no pre-order here, no deposit and no crowdfunding. You leave an address purely so we can tell you when the box is ready.

  • We know what goes in the box

    Cards, dry-erase boards, markers and score counters. These are components we are designing, not a list scribbled on a napkin — the visualisations below show how far along we are.

A round in five moves

A phone-free party game — here is one round

The whole game is a single loop you repeat as many times as you like. It lands differently every time: different questions, different people at the table, a different game mode.

  1. Someone reads a card

    The cards ask about you — what you would do, and how well you actually know each other.

  2. Each writes in private

    Your own board, a marker, and a hand over the top so the person next to you cannot peek.

  3. You reveal together

    All the boards go up at once. This is the moment you play the game for.

  4. You score

    You gain or you lose. The counters stay in plain sight, so nobody has to ask who is winning.

  5. Wipe clean, keep going

    A quick wipe and the boards are blank again. The next card is waiting.

One deck, several modes.

  • new mode, new scoring
  • mode rules in a few lines
  • switch modes whenever you like

How many modes make it into the box and exactly how they work is still being settled.

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The unplugged moment

The evenings where a phone would not help anyway

We have nothing against screens — we built a game that lives on one. But some evenings the phone is part of the problem rather than the fix.

  • No bars

    A cabin in the mountains where the signal only appears by the kitchen window, and only if you stand on one leg.

  • Dead battery

    A campsite, a long train, a long weekend. The power bank is in the car, a kilometre away. The box does not care.

  • Phones in the basket

    Someone made a rule at dinner and everybody is sticking to it. Nice to have something that does not break that rule.

  • Someone a screen puts off

    A grandparent who wants nothing to do with a phone at the table — and they have a point. Or a kid you would rather not hand a screen to right now.

Three foxes mid-game around a table — one reads a question card aloud, the others have writing tiles and score counters in front of them

This is not another guess-the-word game

In most party games you guess a word, a picture or a definition — something from outside the table. Here the entire game happens between the people sitting at it. Points are points, but what stays with you is the moment someone says “wait, I had no idea”.

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What is inside

Question cards, a dry-erase board and a score counter for every player

This is the base and you buy it once. The counters and boards stay with you for good, and the starter question set is enough to play the same evening you open it.

  • A score counter for every player — your score sits in front of you, nobody keeps the running total in their head and nobody argues about what somebody had before the last round
  • A dry-erase board for every player — your own surface to write on: write, reveal, wipe, and come back to a clean field
  • Markers included — ordinary dry-erase ones, so when they eventually run dry you can replace them at any corner shop
  • One cloth for the whole table — with the Fox Tales logo, passed round the table after each reveal so the boards are clean again
  • A starter question set — enough to open the box and play straight away, without buying anything else
  • Room for a themed deck — slip it into the base box, so for a trip you pack one box, not two
Two score counters — one orange, one brown, each with an embossed fox face and a window showing the score
A visualisation. The real counters are still being made.
The collection

It grows on the shelf, next to the board games

Buying games and playing games are two entirely different hobbies — we know that from our own shelf. Instead of one board in the middle, every player here gets a small board of their own, and we design each new deck to stand next to the base as part of a set rather than a pile of odd boxes.

Planned decks — the order is still open
A shelf holding the series — a wider base box and three slimmer deck boxes, each debossed with a fox head and a contents mark; beside them a flat stack of other board games
A visualisation. The real boxes do not exist yet.

  • Valentine's

    For an evening for two, with both phones face down on the table.

  • Married life

    For people who are certain they know everything about each other. A few cards in, usually not.

  • Hen party

    A hen party usually seats several groups at one table who have never met: people from work, from university, from the badminton club. This deck exists so that a quarter of an hour later they have.

  • Family

    The one where a grandparent says something half the table had no idea about.

  • All-purpose party

    For a house party where people know each other unevenly and need to be seated at one table fast.

  • And more after that

    We have more ideas than will fit into the first wave.

A library you can actually see

In the app you collect question sets in your library — on an account, behind a screen. You see the difference when someone comes over: a guest pulls a deck off the shelf and asks what you play. The evening starts with that question.

We want it to be worth reaching for

The counter and the board are not meant to be paper filler for one evening, but things that stay out on the table. We are spending longer on how they look and how they sit in your hand than we would care to admit.

Three score counters in three colours — orange, brown and cream
A visualisation. The real counters are still being made.

Which deck should come first?

Tick it in the form, one click. And if none of them is what you are after, pick “Other” and write your own. We will show everyone on the list how the votes landed.

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As a gift

You cannot tie a ribbon around a link

A scented candle. A mug with a slogan. Socks, foxes this time. Lovely for about fifteen minutes, then it joins the drawer of things you cannot quite throw away. A game stays on the shelf and comes back to the table every time somebody wants an evening with people instead of a screen.

  • birthdays
  • Valentine's
  • the holidays
  • housewarmings
  • hen parties
  • anniversaries
A fox throwing up its paws: the ribbon has slipped off a browser window, next to it a gift box with a bow that holds

They open it and play

No signal, no power and no charged phone needed, and the rules fit in a few lines. They lift the lid, read them out and a minute later the whole table is playing.

Their next gift is already sorted

A themed deck is a present cut to the occasion, not another mug with a slogan on it.

What about timing?

We do not know the release date yet, so we are not promising you will have this in hand for the next occasion. Sign up and we will give you enough notice to plan around it — everyone on the waitlist hears first.

I want to see the box first
Cards on the table

What we still do not know — and what you get out of it

We could put round numbers and a release date here to make the page look more serious. We would rather not. Here is what is still open.

What leaving your address gets you

  • You hear it before anyone elseThe name, the price, the photos, the sale date — everyone on the list gets it before anyone else.
  • You get a say where nothing is decided yetThe name of the game, the order of the decks, and further down the line more than that: what goes into a deck and what to fix about the pieces themselves. We are asking because we genuinely do not know yet.
  • You see the box before anyone doesWhen there is something to show, we show everyone on the list first.
  • You can tell us what is missingThere is a field for it in the form. We read every one.

Still unknown

The name
The game does not have a name yet. We will pick it together with everyone on the list.
The price
Not set. Everyone on the list hears it first and tells us first whether it is fair.
Card count, player count and age
We know what goes in the box. We do not yet know exactly how many cards are in the starter set, how many players a set covers, what age it is for, or how big the box itself will be.
Release date
We do not know the date and we are not going to give you one we are unsure of. We would rather hear that the date is missing than explain a date that slipped.

None of this goes to Instagram first. The email to the list comes first, the rest of the world after.

The waitlist

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No deposit, no reservation, no obligation to buy. You leave a name and an address — and you are at the front of the queue for news, not for an invoice.

Which deck should come first? (optional, pick as many as you like)
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We only write when there is something to say — no newsletter, no nudges. A reply to any of our emails takes you off the list.

The data controller is Hubert Górski, contact: office@foxtales.cc. We process your name and email address solely to tell you about work on the boxed edition of the game, on the basis of your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You can withdraw that consent at any time by writing to us. Details in our Privacy Policy.

FAQ

The questions you are already asking

Not for now — we ship within Poland only, most likely via InPost. If you are reading this from outside Poland, the box will not reach you yet, and we would rather say that plainly than take your address under a false impression. Until the logistics and integrations are sorted we are not going to announce parcels we cannot deliver. This page is in English because plenty of people in Poland would rather read it that way.
Same game, different evening. The box exists for the situations where an app cannot work: no signal, no power, no phones on the table. And a game like this is something you can give as a gift and stand on a shelf, which you cannot do with a link.
No, and we can be specific about what that means. Before release we will write a handful of times: when the game gets a name, when there is something to show, and when we know the price. Then one email when it goes on sale. We do not sell or pass your address to anyone. Want off the list — reply to any of our emails, or write to office@foxtales.cc, and we delete the address.
We collect a name and an email address and use them only to tell you about work on the boxed edition and about the release. We do not sell them, we do not pass them on and we do not add you to any other list. Deleting your data takes one message to office@foxtales.cc. The details are in our Privacy Policy.
Because we are not starting from scratch. Fox Tales runs in the browser today — you can play it for free and find out whether the questions land for you before you leave us an address. The boxed edition is that same game moved onto cards, boards and counters, not an idea on a napkin. Honestly: the box does not exist yet, so what you see on this page was made on a computer. Everyone on the list gets real photos as soon as there is something to photograph.

The next evening with no signal could be the best one this year

A question card, markers squeaking at once, a beat of silence and the moment everyone turns their board around. That is what we are putting in the box.

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