A first look. The nights shown are made up, and the words are placeholders.

Private Game Nightcards after supper
No. 1 · December 2026No.1 No. 2 · January 2027No.2 No. 3 · January 2027No.3 No. 4 · February 2027No.4 No. 5 · March 2027No.5 HOME 21 AWAY 17 4TH · -12° CH 2 CH 4 CH 6 PRIVATE PRIVATE GAME NIGHT GAME NIGHT PRESS START 18° back home 3 4 19 TV G 2 HOUSE RULES 1. It's free2. Host's own home3. Six players4. Cards only... 5 10 16
Weather back home (live from Milwaukee; try the others)
The lamplamp on
Guide

In this room: 2 the lamp's pull chain · 3 the thermometer and the window · 4 the doorframe · 5 the neon · 10 the record player (click it, sound on) · 16 the house rules · 19 the snowbank and the next-table cards · TV the TV (each click changes the channel: static, 2, 4, 6, then off) · G the game console (click for the title screen; click a controller to press start). Every sound starts only on a click, and each toy's second click stops it.

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Private Game Night

Cards after supper. By invitation, at somebody's house in LA.

Host a nightSee the nights

Three Wisconsin words you'll hear down here: supper, up north and bubbler.

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How a night goes

The snowbank, by the stairs. Every night.

  1. 1

    Bring one thing.

    Each player brings one item at the night's level, give or take 10%. You come with nothing but your item. No cash, no tips, no charge.

  2. 2

    Supper's out.

    The host puts out supper. Nate brings the curds and the beer from back home. Drinks are in the snowbank by the stairs.

  3. 3

    Cards after supper.

    At the card table, under the lamp. The deal goes around the table. Nobody's paid; nobody pays.

  4. 4

    The picks.

    The top three choose from everything on the bar, in turns, until every item has a new home.

  5. 5

    A name in the snowbank.

    On the way out, drop a card in the tub: who should sit at the next table?

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The latest nights

Every night gets its own coaster, stitched like a mission patch.

No. 5

Six cameras and a pot of short rib.

Film cameras · level $2,500 · the South Bay · March 2027
No. 4

Rookie cards, and chili from a family recipe.

Graded sports cards · level $1,000 · Mid City · February 2027
No. 3

Six records and a full moon.

Vinyl, first pressings · level $500 · the South Bay · January 2027
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Host a night.

You open your home and fill the room from your own world. You put out supper. Nate runs the rest, and bring the sign, the cards and the snowbank.

Guests come by a host's invitation. There's no way to sign up to play.

Host a night at your level
Page two · one night's page, in the scene system
The Nights  /  No. 5

No. 5
Six cameras and a pot of short rib.

  • Friday, March 12, 2027
  • The South Bay
  • Level $2,500, give or take 10%
  • Hold'em for six
  • Waxing crescent

Tap an item to open its tag.

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The night

Six players came down to Ines's place. Supper was out by seven, and cards went in the air after.

Six cameras came in, and six went home. The full story of the night goes here, told without tying anyone to an item or a result.

At the table

Ines (host) · Odile · Rafi · Soren · Tavi · Thea

Run by Nate. The deal went around the table. Names appear by each player's own yes.

Supper

Put out by Ines: braised short rib and lemon bars.

The night's coaster

No. 5, stitched like a mission patch. Every player took one home.

Photo slot
Stand-in: the deck everyone signed. Shot so the signatures can't be read, unless the whole table chose full names.

The deck everyone signed

One photo slot on every night's page. The deck goes home with the host, next to the keepsake.

Goodnight from No. 5.

Posted a week later, once everyone was home.

Page three · one item's page (click any item on the bar)
No. 5  /  On the bar  /  Leica M3
No. 5 · Leica M3
What it is
35mm rangefinder camera, with a 50mm Summicron lens
The year
About 1955
The night's level
$2,500, give or take 10%
One line
It has been around the world twice.

Who brought it, and who took it home, stay off the site.

Real photos go here

Leica M3

The front
The lens
The top
The other side
← Back to the bar
Page four · the Hosts wall
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The Hosts

Everyone who has opened their home, hung on the paneling in night order.

Hosted by

Arlo

No. 1 · December 2026

with Nate

Hosted by

Bodil

No. 2 · January 2027

with Nate

Hosted by

Linnea

No. 3 · January 2027

with Nate

Hosted by

Teodor

No. 4 · February 2027

with Nate

Hosted by

Ines

No. 5 · March 2027

with Nate

Page five · Friday Nights (Nate's page, in his words)
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Friday Nights

[Nate's story of Friday nights at his family's house goes here, in his own words.]

Page six · the night's postcard, mailed a week later
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The postcard

One for each player, in the mail a week after the night.

Greetings from Greetings from NO. 5 NO. 5 PRIVATE GAME NIGHT · FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 2027

The front: the night's patch.

POST CARD
Private Game Night · No. 5 · March 12, 2027
[One line from Nate, in his own hand, goes here.]
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NO. 5 PRIVATE GAME NIGHT FRIDAY NIGHT NO. 5 MAR 12 2027
[Player's name]
[Street address]
[City, State ZIP]

The back: one handwritten line, and a placeholder address block.