SLEEPS
How many sleeps till the thing you're waiting for?
Small tools around big dates: countdowns, bingo cards, gift draws and deal checks that people share in chats and stories. No sign-up, nothing uploaded. A new date in the world is a new print run, not a new build.
Countdowns
GTA VI, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Christmas and New Year, to midnight in your time zone.
Event bingo
A random 5×5 card for launch day, Black Friday or the family dinner.
Secret Santa
Names in, a fair draw out. No sign-up, no email. Everyone sees only their own card.
My 2026 card
Your year as a ticket for stories, with stickers from your ticket book.
Super Bowl squares
The 10×10 party grid: fill, lock the numbers, light up the quarter winner.
Kids & class
Letter to Santa, Nice List certificate, reward chart, class name picker, last-day-of-school countdown.
Wheel & teams
Spin for one, or split the list into fair teams.
Love calculator
Two names, one number, zero science. Same names, same score, forever.
Bracket
4, 8 or 16 entrants, tap your way to a champion.
Deal or fake deal?
Was, now, and the real price last month. A verdict in one second.
Key dates this season, in plain facts
Each fact stands on its own and is checked against the official schedule. Numbers update live in the browser and are prefilled as of .
When does GTA 6 come out?
Grand Theft Auto VI releases on Thursday, November 19, 2026 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, at midnight in each local time zone. As of November 1, 2026 that is 18 days away. A PC version has not been dated.
When is Thanksgiving 2026?
Thanksgiving falls on Thursday, November 26, 2026, the fourth Thursday of November. Black Friday is the next day, November 27, and Cyber Monday is November 30.
How many sleeps until Christmas?
Christmas Day is Friday, December 25, 2026. From November 1 that is 54 sleeps. The countdown on this site runs to midnight on the 25th in your own time zone.
When does Spotify Wrapped 2026 arrive?
Wrapped has launched in the first week of December every year since 2019, usually between December 1 and 4. Expect the 2026 edition in the same window; Sleeps's "My 2026" card is ready from December 1.
When is Super Bowl LXI?
Super Bowl LXI is scheduled for Sunday, February 14, 2027 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, the same day as Valentine's. A squares pool is a 10×10 grid with random 0–9 digits on each axis; the square matching the last digit of each team's score wins the quarter.
What is a Secret Santa derangement?
A fair Secret Santa draw is a derangement: a shuffle where nobody is assigned to themselves. For six people there are 265 valid draws out of 720 shuffles, so a naive shuffle fails about 63% of the time. Sleeps reshuffles until the draw is valid and checks any exclusions you add.
math · subfactorial !6 = 265Questions people ask
Do I need an account to use Sleeps?
No. Every tool runs in your browser without sign-up or email. Results you want to keep travel as short codes, and your ticket book is stored on your device until you choose to save it with a key.
Does the countdown use my time zone?
Yes. Each countdown runs to midnight, or the time you set, in the time zone your device reports. A GTA 6 player in Sydney and one in Los Angeles each see their own local midnight.
Are the kids pages really ad-free?
Pages marked kid-safe carry no popunders, no retargeting and no sign-in prompts, and collect no data. That is how they meet COPPA in the US and GDPR-K in the EU by design rather than with a consent banner.
Is Sleeps affiliated with Rockstar, Spotify or the NFL?
No. Sleeps is an independent fan project. Event and brand names are used only to say what a countdown is for, and no official artwork, logos or footage appear anywhere on the site.
How do friends play together?
Bingo, the wheel and Secret Santa have rooms: one person starts a room and shares a six-letter code, and everyone who joins sees the same card, the same spin or the same draw at the same moment.
All tools
Everything in print, filtered by season, engine and who it is for. Type to search; press / anywhere on the site to jump to the search box.
Nothing in print under that filter yet. Try another season.
Until GTA VI
Launch is Nov 19, 2026 at 00:00 in your time zone, on Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5. This is a fan page; Rockstar has nothing to do with it.
You've waited 0 days in a row
One stamp a day. Miss a day and the streak resets.
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A new question every midnight. Results unlock after launch: come back and see if you called it. Demo numbers are illustrative.
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Counting everyone who checked in on this page.
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A letter to yourself on Nov 19
Stored on this device. On the live site: kept on the server, with an email on launch day.
Eve: Nov 18, 8:00 PM
A calendar event with a link back to this page. The reminder brings you home.
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Paste the text into a file ending in .ics and any calendar opens it. On the live site this is one Download button.
Everyone with this page open right now shows up here. Signed-in viewers only in the prototype; everyone on the live site.
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How this countdown is calculated
Countdown questions
Can I make a countdown to my own date?
Yes. Press "Your own date", type a name, a date and a time, and the board counts to it. Up to eight countdowns are saved on this device, and each one opens on any device with a short code.
Can I put the countdown on my website?
Yes. "Embed code" gives a two-line snippet: an iframe that shows the live board and a plain link under it. The widget updates itself because it is a page on this site.
Does it work fullscreen on a TV or stream?
Yes. The Fullscreen button turns the board into a full-screen display with the event name at the top, sized for a TV, a projector or an OBS browser source.
Bingo
Paste eight or more squares, or pick a ready theme, and get a random bingo card in 5×5, 4×4 or 3×3. Print up to 60 different cards at one, two or four per page, call the squares from one screen, or share a room code so everyone plays the same card live. Free, no sign-up.
Same card for everyone in the room; each person's marks show as coloured dots, and the host's caller calls for all. Share the code in your group chat.
Every card is a different shuffle of the same squares. The print view hides everything else on the page. In this prototype the print dialog may be blocked; on the live site it opens directly.
Shuffles all squares of the chosen theme and reads them out one by one, so you can run the game from one screen while players mark their cards.
Bingo!
How the cards are made
Bingo questions
Can I use my own words or phrases?
Yes. "Your own squares" takes any list, one per line, with eight or more entries. Fewer than 25 is fine: the generator repeats the shuffle to fill the card. Your set is saved on this device and shareable by code.
Is it suitable for a classroom?
Yes. The classroom themes (math facts, sight words, icebreakers) and 3×3 size are built for kids, and selecting them switches the page to kid-safe mode with no tracking ads.
How do we play on phones together?
One person presses "Start a room" and shares the six-letter code. Everyone who joins gets the same card; each person's marks appear as small coloured dots, and a bingo is announced to the room.
Secret Santa
Type the names, press Draw, done. Nobody draws themselves, each person gets a private code that opens only their own card with room for a wishlist and a note to their Santa, and the organizer keeps a group code. Nothing is uploaded or stored, so there is no account and no email.
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Everyone in the room gets the same draw the moment the host presses Draw, and sees only their own card.
A personal code opens one card only. The group code reopens the whole draw for the organizer. On the live site both become short links with a ticket preview.
Send the updated code to the organizer (or paste it into the group). Your Santa will see your list when they open their card.
How a fair draw works
Secret Santa questions
Do participants need to sign up or give an email?
No. The organizer sends each person a short personal code in any chat app. The code opens that person's card and nothing else.
What is a good Secret Santa budget?
Most groups choose between $15 and $30. Set it before the draw so everyone shops in the same range; it is printed on every card.
Can we do it remotely?
Yes. Start a room and share its code, or send personal codes by message. Gift cards and delivered gifts work well for teams in different cities.
My 2026
Your year as a ticket. Five answers, one tap, a 1080×1920 card for stories. Your ticket book adds its stickers at the bottom. Nothing is uploaded; the picture is drawn on your device.
Updates as you type. In this prototype "Save" is blocked by the sandbox; on the live site it downloads the PNG and opens the share sheet on phones.
Super Bowl Squares
The classic 10×10 party grid. Add players, fill the board, lock the numbers, and type the score after each quarter to light up the winner. Works for any game, not only the big one.
Type a score and the winning square lights up.
Kids & class
Five tools for homes and classrooms, all drawn on the device and printed from it: a Letter to Santa, a Nice List certificate, a weekly reward chart, a fair class name picker and the last-day-of-school countdown. These pages carry no ads that follow anyone and collect no data, which is how they meet COPPA and GDPR-K by design.
Prints on A4 or Letter in portrait. The number on the certificate is unique to this device.
Stars are saved on this device, so the same tablet shows the same chart tomorrow. Tap a star to earn it, tap again to undo.
Earn the stars, win the pancakes.
We count real school days (Mondays to Fridays) as well as plain days, because that is the number kids actually want.
Classroom bingo
Math facts, sight words and icebreaker cards, printable or on the whiteboard.
Sleeps till Christmas
The kid-safe countdown, with a reminder for Christmas Eve.
Why these pages are different
No popunders, no retargeting, no accounts, no data collected. Pages a child opens follow COPPA and GDPR-K rules by design, not by a cookie banner.
Spin the wheel
Paste anything one per line and spin. Write "Pizza ×3" to make a slice three times as likely, keep a tally across spins, remove winners as you go, go fullscreen for a projector and save the wheel under a name. The same list splits into fair teams with one more click. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Weights: write Pizza ×3 or Pizza *3 to make a slice three times as likely. Paste a CSV column and it just works.
One wheel, every screen: whoever spins, everyone watches the same result land.
Love calculator
Two names, one number, zero science. The result is deterministic, so the same two names always get the same score and nobody can retry their way to 100. Share the ticket, not the spreadsheet.
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Bracket
A single-elimination bracket for 4, 8 or 16 entrants: teams, songs, snacks, Christmas films. Seed in order or shuffle, then tap the winner of each match until one is left.
Tap a name to advance it. Tap the other name to change your mind.
Deal or fake deal?
A discount calculator with one extra field: what the item cost before the sale. Two prices give the claimed percentage; the third tells you whether it is real. A $299 tag marked down to $199 claims 33% off, but if it sold for $219 last month the true saving is 9%.
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Worked examples
Ticket book
Every result, stamp and prediction lands here as a stub. No account: the book lives in your browser. The thicker the book, the more stickers on your "My 2026" ticket in December.
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Compare streaks with a friend
Your code is your whole book in a few characters. Send it, paste theirs here. No accounts.
—Guide
Sleeps (countsleeps.com) is one site with three layers of tools around dates people wait for. Season tools spike around big events, kids and classroom tools run all year, and evergreen tools hold steady between peaks. The ticket book ties them together: every result lands there and builds a streak worth coming back for.
Layer 1 · Season
For fans, shoppers and party hosts. Traffic arrives in bursts around a date, mostly from chats and stories.
- Countdowns (5 dates + your own)
- Event bingo (8 themes)
- Secret Santa
- My 2026 card
- Super Bowl squares
- Deal check
Layer 2 · Kids & class
For parents and teachers. Steady all year, shared teacher-to-teacher and on Pinterest. Kid-safe: no tracking ads, no sign-in, nothing stored.
- Letter to Santa
- Nice List certificate
- Reward chart
- Class name picker
- Last day of school
- Classroom bingo (3 decks)
Layer 3 · Evergreen
For anyone, any day. Keeps the site alive in summer and gives the domain age for search.
- Spin the wheel
- Team generator
- Love calculator
- Bracket
- Deal check (also season)
The glue · Ticket book
Every stamp, result and prediction becomes a stub. Streaks, stickers and a friend code make people return; "My 2026" reads the book in December.
- Daily stamp & streak
- 13 stickers
- Friend code compare
- Rooms to play together
Site-wide
Codes: how results travel without accounts
Anything worth keeping becomes a short code: a Secret Santa draw (SLP1…), a personal Santa card (EVP1…), your own countdown (SLC1…), a bingo set (SLB1…), a wheel (SLW1…). Paste a code on any device and the same thing opens. On the live site these become short links with a ticket preview in chats.
Rooms: how friends do things together
Bingo, the wheel and Secret Santa have a "together" box. One person presses Start a room and shares the six-letter code; everyone who joins sees the same card, the same spin or the same draw at the same moment. Signed-in viewers only in the prototype.
Post to: sharing into networks
Under every result there is a row of buttons for X, Reddit, WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook, Bluesky and Pinterest. The text is built from your live result. "Copy for stories" is for Instagram: on the live site it hands a 1080×1920 ticket image to the phone's share sheet.
Kid-safe pages
Anything with the green badge (Kids & class, the Christmas countdown, classroom bingo themes) carries no popunders, no retargeting and no sign-in prompts, and stores nothing. The wheel switches to kid-safe when it detects a class list.
Keyboard
/ search, T theme, 1–8 top-bar sections, Space spins the wheel. Everything is reachable with Tab and Enter.
What is only a demo in this prototype
Downloading PNGs, the phone share sheet and printing are blocked by the sandbox; rooms and the live counter need a signed-in viewer; popularity is counted per device; ads are grey placeholders showing where and when they would appear. All of this works in full on the live domain.
About Sleeps
"How many sleeps till…?" is the first question every kid asks and the last one every adult admits to. Sleeps is a set of small tools for exactly that moment, made by a tiny team that got tired of sign-up walls.
What this is
Sleeps is a set of free tools for the days you are counting down to: a countdown, a bingo card, a Secret Santa draw, a party grid, a card for your stories. Every tool runs in your browser. Nothing you type is uploaded, there is no account to make and no email to give.
What this is not
Sleeps is an independent fan project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Rockstar Games, Take-Two, Spotify, the NFL, or any other company whose event we count down to. Game, brand and event names belong to their owners and are used only to say what the countdown is for. We use no official artwork, logos or footage.
How it is paid for
Ads, placed after you get your result, never before, and never on pages built for kids. There is no premium tier yet. If you want fewer ads, use the tools on the kids pages: they have none.
Admit one. Count the sleeps. See you the night before.
Privacy, in plain words
What we collect: nothing you type. Names for a Secret Santa draw, bingo answers, letters to Santa and reward-chart stars are processed and stored in your own browser (local storage) and never sent to us.
What stays on your device: your ticket book (stamps, stubs, stickers), your sealed letter, your reward chart. Clear your browser data and it is gone; we cannot restore it because we never had it.
The one shared thing: the "waiting with you" counter stores a country code and a timestamp per signed-in visitor, nothing else, and you choose whether to join it.
Ads: served by third-party networks on adult pages only, after a result, at most one popunder per device per 24 hours. Kids pages carry no advertising that profiles anyone. You can opt out of personalised ads through your browser or platform settings.
Analytics: page counts and button clicks, aggregated, no personal profiles. Cookies: none required for the tools to work.
Last updated Nov 1, 2026. Questions: see Contact.
For parents and teachers
Pages under Kids & class, the Christmas countdown, and the classroom bingo themes are marked with a green kid-safe badge. On those pages there are no popunders, no retargeting, no accounts and no data collection, which is how we meet COPPA (US) and GDPR-K (EU) by design rather than with a banner.
Letters to Santa and Nice List certificates are drawn on the device and printed from it. The reward chart saves stars on the tablet it was made on, so a shared classroom device keeps the class chart and a home tablet keeps the home one.
The class name picker remembers who has had a turn only until the page is closed. The wheel switches ads off automatically when it detects a class list.
If something on a kids page looks wrong, tell us through Contact and we fix it first.
Contact
Write to hello@countsleeps.com . We read everything; replies take a day or two in season.
Found a bug? Say which tool, which device and what you expected. A screenshot of the ticket book number (top of the Ticket book page) helps us find your case without knowing who you are.
Rights holders: if a page uses your name in a way you object to, write and we take it down or change it within two business days.
Press & partners
Everything below is free to use in articles, videos and posts about Sleeps. The tickets are drawn live, so the numbers are always today's.
Embed gallery
Any countdown as a widget for your site, with a plain link under it so search engines see where it came from.
Boilerplate
Sleeps (countsleeps.com) is a free, sign-up-free set of event tools: countdowns, bingo cards, Secret Santa draws, party grids and shareable cards, all processed on the user's device. Launched November 2026, independent, kid-safe by design on its family pages.
Keyboard
Everything works without a mouse.
| Key | Does |
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| / | Jump to search |
| Esc | Close search results |
| T | Toggle theme |
| 1 … 8 | Open the nth section in the top bar |
| Tab / Enter | Move through bingo squares, Santa cards, bracket matches and press them |
| Space on the wheel | Spin |
No such night
That event is not in our programme, or the link lost a letter on the way. The nearest night we do have is below.
Press room
Five engines in code, dozens of pages in content. An event page lives 2–6 weeks at its peak and stays on as a long tail for next year.
URL tree
/ ├── countdown/ │ ├── gta-6/ ← peak Nov 19 │ ├── black-friday/ ← peak Nov 27 │ ├── christmas/ │ └── new-year-2027/ ├── bingo/ │ ├── gta-6-launch-day/ │ ├── black-friday/ │ └── family-dinner/ ├── secret-santa/ ← all December ├── my-2026/ ← card engine, from Dec 1 ├── super-bowl-squares/ ← grid engine, Jan 5 ├── bracket/ ← grid engine, Feb 1 ├── deal-check/ ← Nov 11 → Cyber Monday ├── wheel/ teams/ ← evergreen pickers ├── love/ ← Feb 14 ├── kids/ ← kid-safe: no ads that follow │ ├── letter-to-santa/ nice-list/ reward-chart/ │ └── class-picker/ last-day-of-school/ ├── embed/ ← widgets = links ├── es/ pt/ ← locales, same engines └── about/ privacy/
Life of one page
3–4 weeks out: page live, IndexNow to Bing, a pin on Pinterest.
7–10 days out: 3–5 subreddits, a short video demo.
Peak: results go to chats and stories, each person brings two more.
After: the title flips to "next year", links keep piling up.
| Engine | What the person gets | Where it goes | Where the ad sits |
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| Countdown | Board, sleeps left, embed | Stories, forums | Banner; popunder after copy |
| Bingo | 5×5 card, result | Chats, Reddit | After "bingo" |
| Draw | "Who I'm gifting" cards | Family and work chats | After the draw |
| Calculator | Percentage and verdict | Chats, comments | After the check + affiliate |
| Card ("My 2026", Santa letter, certificate, love) | 1080×1920 image | Instagram, TikTok, the fridge | Before download; none on kids pages |
| Grid (squares, bracket) | Shared board, winner highlight | Group chats, office | After copy |
| Picker (wheel, teams, class) | One winner or fair groups | Classrooms, dinners | Display only; off in kid-safe |
| Tracker (stamps, reward chart) | Streaks and stars that persist | Comes back by itself | None; this is the retention layer |