The Magic Date Ball
Happy Holidays!
You are here because someone cares about you and wanted to give you a
small digital gift.
Swipe to unwrap it.
Got analysis paralysis? Decision fatigue? Maybe a good, old-fashioned case of just wanting to tempt fate and see what happens?
Use the magic date ball to cycle through all of your favorite date night foods, activities, and special challenges to curate a date just for you.
Step One
Your magic date ball needs you to tell it what you and your partner like. Enter your favorite restaurants, activities, and any challenges you think might be fun.
You must enter at least one option from each category for the ball's magic to work. Go to the next card if you need help thinking of ideas.
Step Two
Steal some of these ideas.
(It's optional!)
Food
- make burritos at home
- go for a picnic
- eat pizza
- Chinese buffet
- go to the best restaurant you can think of that starts with a vowel
Activity
- go bowling
- visit a climbing gym
- play disc golf
- go for a hike or a long urban walk
- see who can whistle the longest
- go see a movie in an actual movie theater like it's 1954 or something
- visit a dog shelter
- do a puzzle together
- play a board or card game
- choose each other's outfit for the night
- go to a shopping mall, split up immediately, and reconvene in exactly 1 hour with a gift for your partner that is under an agreed-upon price limit
- draw portraits of each other while blind-folded
Challenge
- ask a stranger who does NOT have a dog if you may pet their dog
- you may only eat food and drink left-handed.
- the only food and drink you may consume must begin with the letter 'R'.
- ask a third party to order your food or decide what you'll be cooking. You cannot sway their opinion or offer guidance (except to avoid food allergies).
- call a friend you haven't spoken to in over a week and tell them that you want to wish them sweet dreams.
- choose something you'd like to get rid of, like an old dog toy or sweater, and then sell it to a stranger for any amount. Take that amount and put it in VTSAX.
- you may only use 1-syllable words during dinner. If one of you slips up, you must both say 'meow'.
- make frequent mention of pot bellied pigs, but pretend that it's a normal thing to mention. The first one to laugh loses their dignity.
- your shirts must be worn backwards.
- "you may not wear shoes that match."
- tell a stranger 3 things you love about your partner.
tap the ball to generate a new date
(FYI: it only works after you enter date options)
Share Your Ball
Every time you click start a new magic date ball, a new unique URL is generated.
If you want to share this specific magic date ball and all of its entries, allowing your partner to edit it too, you must use the URL you are currently on (or the "share this ball" button below").
Use the start a new ball button to invite someone to create their own ball without screwing yours up.
Personal Date Databank
This is the list of ideas that you've trained your personalized magic date ball to accept as possibilities for your dates.
You can use this card to remove items you don't want to see or do ever again. Use the other cards to add the items back in if you change your mind.
Food
Activities
Challenges
Dates We Logged
Use this card to keep track of the dates you completed.