Two Years of One Chance: A Letter From the Chief Conductor

Two years ago, a card game about surviving Nigeria left the kitchen and went out into the world. Here’s a note from the man who started it all.

Ore mi — my friend.

Two years ago, we handed a small idea to the world and held our breath. One Chance was our baby, and letting it go felt exactly like that: terrifying, hopeful, and completely out of our hands. Two years later, I can tell you the journey has been a beautiful rollercoaster. There have been twists that made us laugh, turns that tested us, and long stretches where the only thing keeping us moving was the sound of you — our Passengers — telling us to keep going.

When I look back, the thing I feel most is gratitude. Not the polite kind you put at the bottom of an email, but the real kind that sits in your chest. Every message, every review, every photo of a family screaming with laughter over a game night — that’s the fuel. You are the reason a small team in Lagos gets to keep chasing a slightly ridiculous, completely serious dream: bringing laughter, smiles, and unforgettable moments into people’s lives.

The mission hasn’t changed

Our goal is simple to say and hard to do: every Nigerian household — at home and abroad — should have a copy of One Chance.

That’s ambitious. We know it. We’re nowhere near done, and some days the road ahead looks longer than the road behind. But we’ve made peace with the idea that progress is just a series of small steps taken on purpose. One more household. One more game night. One more Passenger who becomes a friend. That’s how a movement gets built — not in one leap, but in a thousand quiet ones, together.

What “Passenger” really means

We call our community Passengers because One Chance was always meant to feel like a journey you take with other people, not a product you buy alone. Over two years, that word stopped being marketing and started being true. Some of you have bought five, ten copies to put in the hands of friends and family. Some of you have carried the game across borders in your luggage. You didn’t have to do any of that. You did it anyway.

So this is less an anniversary announcement and more a thank-you note. For two years of trusting a strange little game about the chaos of everyday life. For making it worth it.

This is the month to keep marching forward. And we’re doing it together.

Much love from your Chief Conductor.