Would You Rather Questions

No wrong answers, only wrong reasons.

1. Would you rather share your home with a sofa-sized hamster or carry a cat-sized elephant everywhere you go?
2. Would you rather speak only in rhyme for a whole week or sing everything you say for a whole day?
3. Would you rather wear flippers everywhere you go or wear a knight’s helmet whenever you leave the house?
4. Would you rather have a laugh track play after everything you say or have a dramatic drumroll play before everything you say?
5. Would you rather be followed by a small cloud that rains only on you or be followed by a tiny brass band that plays sad music whenever something goes wrong?
6. Would you rather own a parrot that repeats everything you mutter or own a dog that barks at everyone you like?
7. Would you rather enter every room with a cartwheel or leave every room walking backwards?
8. Would you rather have your hair change colour with your mood or have your voice change pitch with your mood?
9. Would you rather open every door with a slow horror-film creak or walk with the sound of bubble wrap under every step?
10. Would you rather talk to houseplants but only hear complaints or talk to pigeons but only hear gossip?
11. Would you rather be the world’s best at rock, paper, scissors or be the world’s best at hide-and-seek?
12. Would you rather hop everywhere for a day or shuffle sideways like a crab everywhere for a day?
13. Would you rather have a personal theme tune that plays when you walk in or have a narrator who comments on everything you do?
14. Would you rather sneeze a small puff of glitter or hiccup a stream of tiny bubbles?
15. Would you rather start every morning with a dramatic speech to the mirror or end every evening with a bow to an imaginary audience?
16. Would you rather have a slide instead of your stairs or have a trampoline instead of your sofa?

Every power comes with a catch. That is where the argument lives.

1. Would you rather be able to fly only as high as a first-floor window or be able to turn invisible only when nobody is looking?
2. Would you rather hear everyone’s thoughts for one hour a day or be able to rewind ten seconds once a day?
3. Would you rather own a dragon the size of a puppy that keeps setting things alight or own a unicorn that only listens to strangers?
4. Would you rather live in a village of treehouses above the clouds or live in a glass city on the sea floor?
5. Would you rather teleport anywhere but always arrive slightly wet or fly anywhere but only at walking speed?
6. Would you rather stop time for one minute once a week or go back one day in time once a year?
7. Would you rather be a wizard whose spells always work but take an hour or be a wizard whose spells work instantly but only half the time?
8. Would you rather have a wardrobe that opens onto a new world every week or have a door that opens onto anywhere on Earth for ten minutes?
9. Would you rather always know where your lost things are or always know exactly what to say?
10. Would you rather shrink to the size of a mouse for a day or grow to the size of a house for an hour?
11. Would you rather have a robot butler who takes every instruction literally or have a talking cat who is rude about everything you do?
12. Would you rather spend a day as any animal you choose or spend a day invisible and able to walk through walls?
13. Would you rather visit the year 1900 for a week or visit the year 2100 for a week?
14. Would you rather own a pen that makes whatever you draw real for an hour or own a camera that takes photos of tomorrow?
15. Would you rather be a knight defending a castle or be a pilot exploring a planet nobody has visited?

The safest section for mixed ages, and somehow the most heated.

1. Would you rather eat pizza for every meal for a month or never eat pizza again?
2. Would you rather have every meal taste faintly of toothpaste or have every meal taste of whatever you ate before it?
3. Would you rather put tomato sauce on your ice cream or put chocolate sauce on your chips?
4. Would you rather have unlimited bread for life or have unlimited cheese for life?
5. Would you rather eat nothing but piping hot food, ice cream included or eat nothing but stone cold food, soup included?
6. Would you rather eat the same delicious breakfast every day for a year or eat a different ordinary breakfast every day for a year?
7. Would you rather live above a bakery or live above a curry house?
8. Would you rather never eat anything crunchy again or never eat anything creamy again?
9. Would you rather be a brilliant cook with no one to feed or be an average cook with a full table every night?
10. Would you rather eat everything with chopsticks or eat everything with a spoon?
11. Would you rather only eat sweet food or only eat salty food?
12. Would you rather eat a fancy dinner alone or eat a plain sandwich with your closest friends?
13. Would you rather have pancakes every weekend or have a full fry-up every weekend?
14. Would you rather taste every flavour of ice cream in the world or taste every flavour of crisps in the world?
15. Would you rather make the world’s best sandwich but never be allowed to eat it or eat the world’s best sandwich exactly once?

Pets, wildlife and a few things that should not exist.

1. Would you rather own an octopus that escapes every night or own a parrot that insults your guests?
2. Would you rather be chased by a goose for a full minute or be stared at by a cow for a full hour?
3. Would you rather live with twenty cats or live with twenty chickens?
4. Would you rather ride an ostrich to the shops or ride a giant tortoise to the shops?
5. Would you rather have the memory of an elephant or have the nine lives of a cat?
6. Would you rather sleep like a sloth for most of the day or stay wide awake like an owl all night?
7. Would you rather grow a tail that wags when you are happy or grow ears that twitch when you tell a lie?
8. Would you rather have a dog that can count to ten or have a cat that can open every door?
9. Would you rather watch a whale from a small boat or watch a tiger from an open safari truck?
10. Would you rather spend a night in a cave full of bats or spend a night in a field full of cows?
11. Would you rather run as fast as a cheetah for one minute or swim as fast as a dolphin for one hour?
12. Would you rather swap lives with a house cat for a week or swap lives with a farm dog for a week?
13. Would you rather live next door to a very loud rooster or live next door to a very loud peacock?
14. Would you rather befriend a friendly dinosaur the size of a horse or befriend a friendly mammoth the size of a house?
15. Would you rather have every dog you pass run over to say hello or have every cat you pass follow you home?

Small decisions about how you would spend your time.

1. Would you rather live by the sea or live in the mountains?
2. Would you rather always wake up at dawn feeling brilliant or sleep in as long as you like and always feel groggy?
3. Would you rather have a huge group of friends you rarely see or have two close friends you see all the time?
4. Would you rather live in a big city for life or live in a tiny village for life?
5. Would you rather learn a new skill every year or master one skill over a lifetime?
6. Would you rather finish every day two hours early or take a two-hour lunch every day?
7. Would you rather always be first to arrive at every party or always be last to leave every party?
8. Would you rather spend a year travelling with a backpack or spend a year learning a craft in one place?
9. Would you rather live where it is summer all year or live where it snows all year?
10. Would you rather have a tiny balcony full of plants or have a huge garden with nothing in it but grass?
11. Would you rather always choose the film for everyone or always choose the restaurant for everyone?
12. Would you rather start every day with a long walk or end every day with a long bath?
13. Would you rather never have to queue again or never get lost again?
14. Would you rather turn your favourite hobby into your everyday work or keep it as a hobby with no pressure for life?
15. Would you rather have a home with a secret room or have a home with a rooftop garden?
16. Would you rather gain an extra hour every day or gain an extra free day every month?

Gadgets, glitches and a battery that always dies at the wrong time.

1. Would you rather own a phone that never runs out of battery but has no camera or own a phone with a perfect camera and a battery that lasts an hour?
2. Would you rather give up your phone for a week or give up the internet for a week?
3. Would you rather have a robot that does the washing-up but breaks one plate a day or do the washing-up by hand and never break a thing?
4. Would you rather own a speaker that answers everything with a joke or own a speaker that only obeys when you say please three times?
5. Would you rather have autocorrect change one word in every message you send or have every message you send read aloud in a robot voice?
6. Would you rather be the person whose video freezes mid-blink or be the person whose audio loops the same word?
7. Would you rather own a jetpack that runs out of fuel after two minutes or own a hoverboard that only goes uphill?
8. Would you rather have a phone battery that lasts a week or have a phone that fully charges in one minute?
9. Would you rather delete every photo you have ever taken or lose every contact in your phone?
10. Would you rather message everyone only by postcard for a month or message everyone only by voice note for a month?
11. Would you rather have a teleporter that only works half the time or have a time machine that only goes back ten minutes?
12. Would you rather have your last ten text messages read aloud or have your last ten photos shown on a big screen?
13. Would you rather wait five minutes for every web page to load or wait five minutes for every message to send?
14. Would you rather have an assistant that finishes your sentences or have an assistant that finishes your sandwiches?
15. Would you rather play any video game perfectly or play any instrument perfectly?

Trips, tickets and one very long flight.

1. Would you rather be stranded on a beach for a week with a friend and no phone or be stranded in a city for a week with a phone and no friends?
2. Would you rather take a short trip to the moon or take a short trip to the bottom of the ocean?
3. Would you rather walk across a country or sail across an ocean?
4. Would you rather stay in a treehouse hotel or stay in a hotel made of ice?
5. Would you rather pack for a trip in five minutes and forget a lot or pack for a trip in two hours and forget nothing?
6. Would you rather reach a mountain top in thick fog or reach a beach in pouring rain?
7. Would you rather take a hot-air balloon flight at sunrise or take a night train through the mountains?
8. Would you rather visit a different country every month for a year or return to your favourite place every month for a year?
9. Would you rather learn the local language before a trip or let your phone translate everything for you?
10. Would you rather sit through a twelve-hour flight to somewhere perfect or take a two-hour flight to somewhere just fine?
11. Would you rather have your holiday planned to the minute by a friend or have no plan at all?
12. Would you rather watch a meteor shower from a hilltop or watch a thunderstorm from a cosy cabin?
13. Would you rather sleep under the stars every night for a week or sleep in a five-star hotel every night for a week?
14. Would you rather explore an abandoned castle at night or explore an ancient library by day?
15. Would you rather spend a day lost in a busy market or spend a day lost in a quiet forest?

Meetings, homework and the two-hour lunch everyone deserves.

1. Would you rather sit through a two-hour meeting with no agenda or answer a hundred emails in one afternoon?
2. Would you rather present to strangers with no notes or present to friends with the wrong slides?
3. Would you rather do a group project with someone who does nothing or do the whole project alone and get all the credit?
4. Would you rather have a desk in a busy open-plan room or have a tiny private room with no window?
5. Would you rather take a test you have not revised for or give a speech you have not written?
6. Would you rather always know the answer but be too shy to say it or always guess and be confidently wrong?
7. Would you rather be the best listener in every room or be the best storyteller in every room?
8. Would you rather work early and finish at lunchtime or start at lunchtime and work late?
9. Would you rather work from a beach hut or work from a mountain cabin?
10. Would you rather learn any instrument instantly or learn any language instantly?
11. Would you rather do one tiny dull task every day or do one enormous dull task once a month?
12. Would you rather relive your first day at a new school or relive your first day at a new job?
13. Would you rather go back to school for a year or skip ahead one year in your life?
14. Would you rather be picked first for every team or be the one who always chooses the teams?
15. Would you rather have homework that is one very hard question or have homework that is a hundred very easy ones?

No good answer, which is the point. Bring snacks and a referee.

1. Would you rather always tell the truth even when it stings or always be kind even when it means fibbing?
2. Would you rather redo one day of your life or skip one day of your life?
3. Would you rather have a friend who is always late but always there or have a friend who is always on time but often busy?
4. Would you rather be the best in the world at something nobody cares about or be fairly good at something everyone loves?
5. Would you rather win an argument you know you are wrong about or lose one you know you are right about?
6. Would you rather always be right but rarely be believed or be right half the time but always be believed?
7. Would you rather remember everything you read or remember everyone you meet?
8. Would you rather do your dream work in a place you dislike or do ordinary work in the place you love?
9. Would you rather be able to change one decision from your past or know the result of one decision before you make it?
10. Would you rather live in a world without music or live in a world without jokes?
11. Would you rather always know how a film ends in the first minute or always miss the last five minutes of everything?
12. Would you rather be the youngest in a room full of experts or be the oldest in a room full of beginners?
13. Would you rather see your thoughts appear as subtitles above your head or watch your dreams play on a screen every morning?
14. Would you rather wear one outfit for the rest of your life or eat one meal for the rest of your life?
15. Would you rather be loved deeply by a few people or be liked lightly by everyone?

Squelchy, sticky and strictly PG.

1. Would you rather step barefoot on a slug or step in a puddle in your socks?
2. Would you rather find a snail in your salad or find a hair in your soup?
3. Would you rather be licked by a very wet dog or be sneezed on by a very tall stranger?
4. Would you rather live in a house that smells of boiled cabbage or live in a house that smells of old trainers?
5. Would you rather eat a raw onion like an apple or eat a lemon like an orange?
6. Would you rather hold a slimy frog for a minute or let a snail crawl across your hand for a minute?
7. Would you rather walk face first into a cobweb or walk face first into a wet washing line?
8. Would you rather wear damp socks all day or wear a soggy hat all day?
9. Would you rather sit on a wet bus seat or sit on a warm seat someone has just left?
10. Would you rather have sticky fingers all day or have sticky feet all day?
11. Would you rather hiccup for an hour in a silent library or sneeze for an hour in a silent library?
12. Would you rather clean out a fridge full of forgotten leftovers or clean out a shed full of spiders?
13. Would you rather peel a hundred boiled eggs or peel a hundred onions?
14. Would you rather find an old sandwich in your bag or find a wet towel in your bag?
15. Would you rather sleep in a sleeping bag full of crumbs or sleep in a tent next to a very loud frog?
16. Would you rather swim in a pond full of tadpoles or swim in a lake with a very curious swan?