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Family deck · 30 cards

Then and now questions across generations

Compare growing up across the generations at the table.

How to play

Every card in the pile

  1. 01What advice from your youth still holds up today?
  2. 02What change in technology has surprised you most in your lifetime?
  3. 03What's a skill everyone had when you were young that few people have now?
  4. 04What did a school day look like when you were ten?
  5. 05What's something from your youth that's cool again?
  6. 06What was your first job, and what did it pay?
  7. 07What's something you did as a teenager that would be impossible today?
  8. 08What did a date look like when you were young?
  9. 09What's a slang word from your youth that nobody uses anymore?
  10. 10What's a rule your parents had that you'd bring back?
  11. 11What music did your parents hate that you loved?
  12. 12How did your family take photos and keep memories when you were young?
  13. 13What about life today will seem old-fashioned in thirty years?
  14. 14What's one thing that was better when you were growing up?
  15. 15How did you keep in touch with friends when you were a teenager?
  16. 16What's a toy or game that has barely changed since you were a kid?
  17. 17What worried your parents most about your generation?
  18. 18What's one thing that's better today than when you were young?
  19. 19What's something kids have today that you would have loved?
  20. 20How was your childhood different from your parents' childhood?
  21. 21How did you look things up before you had a phone in your pocket?
  22. 22What did people wear to look cool when you were a teenager?
  23. 23What's something that cost far less when you were young?
  24. 24What could the younger people in this family teach the older ones?
  25. 25What's something your generation got right that others missed?
  26. 26What news event did everyone talk about when you were young?
  27. 27What counted as a special treat when you were growing up?
  28. 28What did kids get in trouble for when you were growing up?
  29. 29How has the neighborhood you grew up in changed?
  30. 30How did your family spend evenings when you were a kid?

How to use them

Read one out loud and let everyone answer before the next. Or start a game: Candor deals the pile at random, and a room code puts the same card on every phone.