The Rules
- Receive a sticker
- Read the rules at blog.rayhem.dev/posts/2026/sticker-gambit
- Do something fun with your sticker; put it on something at work, stick it to something unique, combine it with other stickers, anything goes as long as it’s fun. Enjoy it!
- Tell me your sticker story.
- (Optional) run your own Sticker Gambit!
Ok, what?
During the pandemic in 2020 I put together a game I called the Pizza Gambit as a way of connecting with people when social distancing made that difficult. Thematically similar to the Sticker Gambit, the rules were basically “order a pizza to a friend’s house wtihout them knowing.” Bonus points if you got it to them in time for their usual dinner!
It worked well because we were all inside and home at routine, predictable times and it was really fun to have a reason to connect with people a little more deeply than a meme or text message affords1. I only pulled it off a handful of times—pizza gets expensive!—and my coup de grace was managing to order a pizza in Hebrew (online, with text, definitely not live…). I really enjoyed talking to people about it.
Unfortunately, pizza gets expensive which really limits the scope of the challenge. Through other disciplines, however, I came to realize you can just order stickers off the internet2 and I realized this would be a great way to keep the game going. Stickers are not terribly expensive, it supports artists making cool things, and it scratches the itch of receiving fun stuff from the internet (twice over!).
So, if you’ve gotten a sticker and made it this far, welcome to the game. I hope you enjoy your sticker, I look forward to hearing your story, and I ask that you please take just a short moment to think about strengthening a connecting with a human in your life. It’s easy to sideline connecting in our fast-paced, digital world but it’s never not appreciated.
:)