The cost-of-living crisis is affecting all areas of Australians’ lives including holidays and travel.
And if you can’t afford a holiday this year, you can still enjoy an adventure at home with this incredible card game.
Getting Lost card games which retail from $27.95 are helping people travel differently, no matter where they are.
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The trend of unplugged travel is only growing with people looking for a way to disconnect and switch off.
Getting Lost launched in 2018 and is a card game that encourages people to ignore the algorithms, get off the beaten track and explore the world around us.
Users just shuffle the deck, draw cards at random and let fate determine their next move, with the cards designed to work all around the world.
The card game taps into trends around being offline and leading a less curated life.
The game encourages players to discover surprise gems even in places they thought they knew well.
Starting with just one game, there are now 36 editions for every type of adventure from road trips to date nights to learning to drive, to a weekend with the grandparents, to girls’ weekends and even walking the dog.
The Founder of Getting Lost, Cat, was inspired to create the brand after starting a travel blog in 2014 as an outlet for her writing and photography.
By 2018, Cat’s blog had grown a large social media following and she was constantly asked how she found the places she wrote about and photographed.
This was her lightbulb moment and so she decided to create a card game, inspired by her blog and the game she had been playing with her kids for years, where they would pick random directions and explore.
“It’s a mind bend getting your head around the fact that the destination is unknown. We’ve taken the kids on a few Getting Lost holidays now where we have no idea what we’re packing for. And my husband (and co-founder) still struggles with not knowing if we’ll head north or south,” Cat explains.
Cat frequently receives photos from customers and their experiences playing the game.
“The photo that I typically get is a bunch of middle-aged women dressed horrendously in op shop clothes in the middle of nowhere on a slide (two of our cards in the Girls Road Trip Edition),” she says.
“I love those snaps of people in random places, because I sent them there, and it’s insane to believe that tens of thousands of people have taken my advice to get lost,” Cat says.
Shoppers can’t stop raving about the game and have given the game a 4.8-star rating on the Getting Lost website.
“Such great fun,” said one.
“This was such a fun way to get the kids involved and was a good way to explore our local area too,” added a second.
“My kids absolutely love going on these adventures and we adults enjoyed it more than we expected,” added a third.
To find out more and to purchase the game, head to the website here.