D-Bingo

Description

Deployment is a long time to be apart. D-Bingo turns it into something the two of

you play together.

One board. Twenty-five squares. One of you at home, one of you deployed — and the

same card on both phones, updating live.

HOW IT WORKS

Every square is something that happens during a deployment. The smoke alarm dying at

3 AM. The car refusing to start. Powdered eggs, again. Tap a square when it happens.

Tap it again when it's dealt with. Your person sees it immediately, wherever they

are, and can leave a note, a photo, or a reaction on it.

Get five in a row and the board celebrates. Keep going: double line, four corners,

the X, the blackout. Each objective is harder than the last, and each one throws a

bigger celebration.

COUNT UP OR COUNT DOWN

Track the days served, or set a homecoming date and count down to it. Either way it

lives on your home screen and lock screen widgets, so you see it without opening

anything. Your homecoming date stays private — it never appears on cards you share.

THE JOURNAL WRITES ITSELF

Every square, note, photo and message becomes a day-by-day record of the whole

deployment, built from what you were already doing. When you want it as a story,

Apple Intelligence writes one — funny where it should be, quietly honest where it

counts. Export it as a PDF in your theme, as a Word document, or copy it to send.

AGREE ON THE STAKES

Set a prize for each objective. One of you proposes, the other signs, and it's

binding — as binding as anything is between two people who miss each other. Doing

this on your own? Keep them as personal rewards instead.

THE REFERENCE BINDER

The plumber's number. The account number for the propane. Which breaker is the

garage. Everything the person at home needs and shouldn't have to text overseas for

finds a contractor nearby and puts them on the phone.

NINE WAYS TO WEAR IT

Classic field manual, Night Ops, Northern Watch, Woodland Night, Maple Leaf, Care

Package, Victory Poster, Desert Rotation, Modern Heritage. Each with its own type,

its own ornaments, its own celebration. Pick per device — your person keeps theirs.

BUILT FOR BOTH SIDES

Choose whether you're holding down the fort or deployed, and the squares, the tips

and the wording follow. Fully bilingual in English and Canadian French. Everything

syncs through your own iCloud account — no accounts to make, no servers of ours,

nothing to sign up for.

Made by a military spouse who knows that holding down the fort is its own kind of

deployment.