How to use these questions
- Write down your answers every day and treat it like a writing or journal prompt.
- Share the question and get your friends to put their answers in the comments.
- Use it as a conversation starter to ask friends or family.
- Just ask them to yourself out loud like a crazy person.
- Choose one and put it on a t shirt, and enjoy the random people that come up and talk to you.
- Get them tattooed on your leg so you'll always have something to talk about. (Terrible idea)
Questions for any day
For work and teams
- What are the unwritten rules of where you work?
- What is the funniest corporate / business screw up you have heard of?
- What’s some insider knowledge that only people in your line of work have?
- What’s the weirdest thing that has happened to you while working at your job?
- What tips or tricks have you picked up from your job / jobs?
- What job are you grossly underqualified for but think you would be pretty good at?
- What profession doesn’t get enough credit or respect?
- What question do people always ask you once they find out what you do?
- Presentation: Go First or Go Last?
- Would you rather live without the internet or live without AC and heating?
- Would you rather never lose your phone again or never lose your keys again?
- Would you rather follow the instructions on how to do something or try without instructions?
- Would you rather do a physically hard job for a day or a boring job for a week?
- When you have a problem would you rather talk with someone or try to figure it out by yourself?
- What invention doesn’t get a lot of love, but has greatly improved the world?
- What really needs to be modernized?
- What product do you wish a company would make a “smart” version of?
- If you could be an NPC in any videogame, what game would you choose to reside in?
- If you could bring back any canceled TV series, which TV show would you choose to bring back?
- If you could put a new word in the dictionary, what would it be and what would be the definition?
- What kind of business would you like to start if you were given a chance?
- What did you manage to fix with something that was absolutely not the right tool?
- What do you take far too seriously and that makes it take longer than it should?
- What’s the best sandwich you’ve ever had?
- What ordinary errand somehow turned into an adventure?
For class
- What subjects should be taught in school but aren't?
- What are some things you learned in school that aren’t true?
- What’s the biggest thing your textbooks got wrong or omitted?
- What subject would you enjoy learning if there were no tests or grades?
- What would you add to a school day for students who need a break from sitting still?
- What skill did you think everyone knew until you had to explain it?
- Group project: Choose Partners or Assigned Partners?
- Homework: Hardest First or Easiest First?
- School uniform: Easier Mornings or Lost Freedom?
- What's something you wish came with a practice version before the real thing?
- What expression would you like to be in popular use and what would it mean / how would it be used?
- What cute cartoon character would be absolutely terrifying if it existed in the real world?
- If hide and seek were a major sport in the Olympics, what would it be like?
- What amusement park do you wish existed?
- You can hear one type of animal complain about humans. Which animal do you choose?
- Time freezes for everyone but you for one day. What do you do?
- What would be some of the downsides of certain superpowers?
- Would you rather be an average person in the present or a king of a large country 2500 years ago?
- Would you rather know the uncomfortable truth of the world or believe a comforting lie?
- Would you rather cheat at a game and win or lose but know you gave it your best shot?
- Would you rather everyone in the world be kinder and more compassionate or more intelligent?
- If extra lives were a thing in the real world, how would you get them?
- If there were internet Olympics, what sports would be in it?
- What’s something you learned recently that you really should have already known?
- What aged like milk?
For kids
- Roblox or Minecraft?
- Dragons or Knights?
- Scarier, Sharks or Alligators?
- Scarier, Zombie or Monster?
- Batman or Superman?
- Would you rather own an old-timey pirate ship and crew or a private jet with a pilot and infinite fuel?
- Would you rather have an elephant-sized cat or a cat-sized elephant?
- Would you rather swim in Jell-O or swim in Nutella?
- Would you rather have a pet penguin or a pet Komodo dragon?
- Would you rather have a pet dinosaur of your choosing or a dragon the size of a dog?
- Would you rather live in a cave or a tree house?
- Would you rather have a house with trampoline floors or a house with aquarium floors?
- Would you rather have a bubble gun that shoots giant 5-foot bubbles or a bathtub-sized pile of Legos?
- Would you rather eat a bowl of spaghetti that was just one long noodle or eat ice cream launched from a catapult?
- Would you rather get to name a newly discovered tree or a newly discovered spider?
- Would you rather have a personal life-sized robot or a jetpack?
- Would you rather never have any homework or be paid $10 per hour for doing your homework?
- Would you rather control the outcome of any coin flip or be unbeatable at rock, paper, scissors?
- Would you rather be able to find anything that was lost or every time you touched someone they would be unable to lie?
- Would you rather live in a base under the ocean or a floating base in the sky?
- Would you rather live in a castle or a spaceship traveling far from earth?
- Would you rather have everything you draw become real or become a superhero of your choice?
- Would you rather eat broccoli flavored ice cream or meat flavored cookies?
- What do you wish grew on trees?
- If you had an endless supply of LEGOs but couldn't sell them, what would you build?
For friends and group chats
- How do you feel about putting pineapple on pizza?
- What’s your “and then it got worse” story?
- Is cereal soup? Why or why not?
- What’s the most polarizing question you could ask a group of your friends?
- You have to argue your way out of hell, and you get one lawyer from this group. Who do you pick?
- You hear that everyone else here got arrested together. What do you assume happened?
- One of us starts a cult. Who joins for the free snacks and ends up second in command?
- Our lottery pool wins, but one person forgot to pay their dollar. How much are we giving them?
- A demon will leave us alone if someone tells a convincing lie. Who do we push forward?
- We take over a country. What scandal brings down our government before the first weekend?
- A stranger insults one of us in a bar. Who makes things worse while trying to help?
- We're 80 and get permanently banned from a casino. What did each of us do?
- In your group of friends, what role do you play?
- What stereotype do you completely live up to?
- What is a controversial opinion you have?
- What’s the dumbest thing someone has argued with you about?
- What do a lot of people have very strong opinions about, even though they know very little about it?
- What conspiracy theory do you actually believe?
- What movie universe would be the worst to live out your life in?
- Which TV character would be a nightmare to share a kitchen with?
- You can send one harmless inconvenience to your worst enemy. What do you send?
- What awful movie do you love?
- What happens regularly that would horrify a person from 100 years ago?
- A tiny brass band follows you for one day. When would it be useful, and when would it be unbearable?
- In what situations, do you wish you could throw down a smoke bomb and disappear?
Funny
- What would be on the gag reel of your life?
- What would be the worst “buy one get one free” sale of all time?
- What secret conspiracy would you like to start?
- Think of a brand, now what would an honest slogan for that brand be?
- What’s the most useless talent you have?
- Be honest: if you were born in medieval times, you probably wouldn't be royalty or a knight. So what kind of peasant would you be?
- What’s the most boring super hero you can come up with?
- What is something that everyone looks stupid doing?
- Tear gas makes people cry and laughing gas makes people giggle, what other kinds of gases do you wish existed?
- What movie completely changes its plot when you change one letter in its title? What’s the new movie about?
- What would the adult version of an ice-cream truck sell and what song would it play?
- First think of a product. Now, what would be the absolute worst brand name for one of those products?
- What two totally normal things become really weird if you do them back to back?
- What’s the best Wi-Fi name you’ve seen?
- What two things are terrible when separate but great when you put them together?
- If you were a cursed sword, what would your owner have to shout every time they swung you?
- If you were a pirate captain, what petty offense would you make someone walk the plank for?
- If you were a ghost and could possess people, what would you make them do?
- What's your biggest screw up in the kitchen?
- What’s the most epic way you’ve seen someone quit or be fired?
- What’s the most ridiculous thing you have bought?
- What escalated very quickly?
- What ridiculous thing has someone tricked you into doing or believing?
- Someone will pay off every debt you have, but your worst secret goes on a billboard in your hometown. Do you take the deal?
- If you were an alien lawyer trying to get Earth demolished, what TV show would you play for the jury?
Deep
- If all your memories were erased, what kind of person would you be?
- If everyone said what they were actually thinking, what would happen to society?
- Is it better to be a big fish in a small pond or a small fish in a big pond?
- What lies do you most often tell yourself?
- Why do people expect a universe full of randomness to be fair?
- What are some of society’s unwritten rules?
- What is the biggest waste of human potential?
- Is it better for a person to have a broad knowledge base or a deep knowledge base?
- What life-altering things should every human ideally get to experience at least once in their lives?
- How much privacy are you willing to sacrifice for safety?
- Why is it so hard to learn from our mistakes?
- What’s the weirdest thing about modern life that people just accept as normal?
- Has social media been a net positive or a net negative for our society? Why?
- In general, is it better for a person to stand out and be different or blend in with everyone else?
- In what ways do you sabotage yourself?
- Is intelligence or wisdom more useful?
- How much effort should an individual put into not offending others?
- What’s something terrifying that we’ve all come to accept as a fact of life?
- If humanity was put on trial by an advanced race of aliens, how would you defend humanity and argue for its continued existence?
- Free Will or Destiny?
- If you had to disappear and start a whole new life, what would you want your new life to look like?
- What is a miracle that happens every day?
- If you had to sum up the whole human species in 3 words, what would those words be?
- Would you rather die in 20 years with no regrets or die in 50 years with many regrets?
- What social stigma does society need to get over?
The 2016 questions
The old picture cards, from 2016 and April 2020.
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What skill would you like to master?
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What would you name your boat if you had one?
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If animals could talk, which would be the rudest?
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What is the best way for a person to attain happiness?
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What movie title best describes your life?
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Who is the most interesting person you've met and talked with?
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If you could go back in time and give your parents advice before you were born, what advice would you give them?
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What were the last two books you read?
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What's the hardest lesson you’ve had to learn?
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What is something really popular now, but in 5 years everyone will look back on and be embarrassed they liked it?
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What simple change in your life would have the biggest positive impact?
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What three objects you own do you value most?
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What would you name your boat?
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What happens in real life, but rarely gets portrayed in movies?
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What is the most useful thing your mom or dad has taught you?
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Who’s your favorite protagonist from an animated movie?
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What's something you tried really hard to like but just couldn’t?
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What movie would be greatly improved if it was made into a musical?
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If you received a salary to follow whatever passion you wanted to, what would you do?
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What inscription do you want on your gravestone?
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What’s the TLDR description of your last relationship?
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What will immediately disqualify a potential SO?
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What smell brings back great memories?
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Would you rather be unable to use search engines or unable to use social media?
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What keeps you up at night?
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Is there an app you hate but use anyways?
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What childish thing do you still enjoy?
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What movie trope annoys you the most?
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What is the ugliest vegetable?
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If you could put your brain in a robot and live indefinitely, would you?
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Would you rather always be 10 minutes late or always be 20 minutes early?
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If you could trade 1 year of your life for $30,000, how many years would you trade in?
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What job would you be absolutely terrible at?
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What should they teach in high school but don’t?
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What piece of technology brings you the most joy?
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What terrible movie do you love?
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What’s the most useful thing you own?
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Would you rather be alone for the rest of your life or always be surrounded by annoying people?
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If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
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Would you rather be transported permanently 500 years into the future or 500 years into the past?
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Would you rather be poor but help people or become incredibly rich by hurting people?
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What is the most impressive thing you know how to do?
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What three words best describe you?
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What silly or funny thing are you afraid of?
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What was your best drop the mic moment?
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What is something you are utterly obsessed with at the moment?
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If you summed up your life in one word, what word would it be?
