Eight moon legends. Two foil packs. One kid who suddenly cares about Mid-Autumn.

One festival envelope per set ordered. Inside: two sealed foil rip packs that together hold the complete 8-card set of moon-legend monsters, printed on real trading-card stock — made to survive backpacks, pockets, and being slept with. Your $30 gift doesn't wait for the mail: it's in your inbox the moment you order.

Straight answer: a few kids do shrug — and that possibility is priced into how we built this. Here's why most don't: nothing about this arrives labeled as Chinese anything. It's a monster trading deck — the one object on earth kids don't need convincing about — and the stories play out loud like a game, not a lesson. At our festival booths, kids grabbed the cards before anyone explained what they were. And if yours turns out to be the shrug? Tell us. Full refund, they keep the cards. The risk of the shrug is ours, not yours.

The truth: it's a code for the first year of the Boba Chinese app — the story app where these same monsters live — for $69.99 instead of $99.99. It arrives by email the instant you order, works at bbchinese.com, and expires Sept 30. It starts with a 7-day free trial, and even after you're charged you have a full 30 days: one email, no questions, 100% back. And yes — we obviously hope your family falls for the app; that's the honest reason the gift exists. But the cards were built to stand on their own: if apps aren't your family's thing, ignore the code entirely and the cards owe you nothing more. Already a Boba Chinese family? Gift your code to a friend's family, or reply to your receipt and we'll put the $30 toward your renewal instead.

Both — pick whichever sounds like your family, or let the grandparents argue about which telling is better. Every story also has an optional English track, so a kid still finding their Chinese can fall in love with the legends first and replay them in Chinese after. Nobody has to read anything.

Officially 3–12. Under six, it's the stories — they'll scan the same card ten times. Eight and up, it's the collecting: a complete set of monsters nobody else at school has. If Pokémon taught us anything, there's no age ceiling on trading cards.

No. There's no quiz, no flashcards, no "repeat after me." They're trading cards. If your kid walks away thinking Mid-Autumn has the coolest monsters of any holiday on the calendar, the cards did their job.

The phone works as the storyteller, not a screen to sink into: scan a card, a story plays for about a minute, the phone goes back down. No games, no videos, no "one more episode." Hands stay on the cards.

The first print run arrives from the press Sept 13 and envelopes go out from Sept 15, first ordered first mailed. Order by Sept 18 and the cards are in your kid's hands before the festival (Sept 25). Orders close Sept 30 — and remember, the $30 gift is in your inbox the moment you order, whatever the mail does. If the mail mangles your envelope, one email and a fresh one goes out free.

Boba Chinese — a small Bay Area team making Chinese culture feel like play, not homework. These cards are our love letter to the festival. Want to check us out first? Poke around bbchinese.com — the free games and tools there are the same craft that went into these cards.

First print run is US-only (shipping's included). Canada folks — email hello@bbchinese.com; enough hands raised and we'll figure out a northern run.

Before it ships: full refund, just reply to your order email. After it arrives: if your kid doesn't light up when the foil tears, tell us — we refund your $9.99 and they keep every card. That's the Rip-Pack Guarantee, and yes, we mean it.