A new figure rose in the night sky this week, with the July–August newsletter. It has no name yet.
In the Constellations module of Postcard Constellation, a fresh group of our postcard warriors and Ukrainian friends shines together as a single shape. Nothing tells you what they share. One hidden thread runs through every star in it, and working out what it is, is the game.
Visit the exhibition, wander the sky, and click any star to meet its writer. The clues are all there, in their own words.
The thread is a life, not a feeling
Round one taught us something worth passing on before you start.
Every single person in this sky cares about Ukraine. That is what brought each of them to us, and it is just as true of the stars in this figure as of every other writer in the exhibition. So it can never be the answer. “They all love Ukraine” is the one guess that is always true and never wins.
What connects them is something in the lives they have actually lived. Where they have been, what they have done, what happened to them, how they came to be standing where they stand. Something you could point at in an interview and say: there it is — and there it is again, in this one, and this one.
So read the stories properly. The answer is a fact about these people, not a feeling they hold in common.
How to enter
- Open the exhibition and switch to the Constellations module.
- Look at who is up there, and decide what they all have in common.
- Press “Send your guess” on the mystery card and type your answer — or simply email it to deldal@gmail.com.
- Entries close on 20 October 2026.
Everyone with the right answer goes into a draw to win an envelope full of postcards from Linda’s collection — perfect for writing your own messages to Ukraine’s Defenders, or for your personal projects.
Round one, if you missed it
August’s figure was The Postcrossers: twenty writers who all came to the project through Postcrossing, the postcard-exchange community, and many of whom found one another there too. Nobody landed on it, so round one closed without a winner. The full story is in the answer for round one.
Notice what that answer was, because it is the shape of every answer in this game: not what those twenty people felt, but the road all twenty of them traveled to get here.
What happens after the 20th
Guesses close on the 20th, every second month, in step with the newsletter.
In the weeks that follow, while the team is at work on the next issue, we post the answer on the website, draw a winner from among the correct entries, and notify them by email.
The winner is announced publicly too — in the newly published issue and here on the website — under whatever name they would like to be known by. Their own name, a nickname, or simply “anonymous”, if they would rather not be named. The choice is entirely theirs, and we always ask before anything is published.
Then, with the release of the newest newsletter, a fresh constellation goes up in the sky, and the guessing begins again.
While you’re there, the exhibition also has a companion page: Ukrainian phrases you can hear — all of our phrases, with audio.
New to Postcards to the Front? Need ideas about how to get started writing postcard messages of support to Defenders of Ukraine? Check our Tips page, and our Ukrainian phrases page. Maybe you want to organize a group of family, friends or others to write postcards? Check our website for tips, How to Run a Postcard-Writing Workshop.
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Your turn
Send a postcard of your own
Every card written in Canada reaches a defender in Ukraine. Here is exactly how to write and mail yours.
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