50 "would you rather" questions for friends
"Would you rather" is the perfect game because it needs nothing: no cards, no app, no setup. Just two choices, and the reasons people give are usually funnier than the answers themselves. Here are 50 questions, from easy warm-ups to properly difficult decisions.
How to play
One person reads a question. Everyone answers at the same time, either by pointing left or right, holding up one or two fingers, or typing in the group chat. Then the minority has to defend their choice. If you are playing with a bigger group, keep score of who most often picks the same side as you. That person might just be your soulmate friend.
Easy warm-ups
- Would you rather always be a little too hot or a little too cold?
- Would you rather have a rewind button or a pause button for your life?
- Would you rather be able to fly or be invisible?
- Would you rather live without music or without films?
- Would you rather always be ten minutes early or ten minutes late?
- Would you rather have a pet dragon or a pet unicorn?
- Would you rather never use social media again or never watch television again?
- Would you rather be the funniest or the smartest person in the room?
- Would you rather read minds or see the future?
- Would you rather live in the city or the countryside?
Food edition
- Would you rather only eat sweet food or only eat spicy food?
- Would you rather give up rice or bread forever?
- Would you rather eat your favourite meal every day or never eat it again?
- Would you rather have unlimited pizza or unlimited ice cream?
- Would you rather cook every meal yourself or only eat at restaurants?
- Would you rather drink only tea or only coffee for the rest of your life?
- Would you rather eat a raw onion like an apple or drink a glass of lemon juice?
- Would you rather never eat chocolate again or never eat chips again?
- Would you rather have breakfast for dinner or dinner for breakfast every day?
- Would you rather share your food with everyone or never be offered anyone else's?
Superpowers and fantasy
- Would you rather talk to animals or speak every human language?
- Would you rather teleport anywhere or travel back in time once?
- Would you rather have super strength or super speed?
- Would you rather breathe underwater or survive in space?
- Would you rather be a wizard or a superhero?
- Would you rather never need sleep or never need food?
- Would you rather control fire or control water?
- Would you rather know how you will die or when you will die?
- Would you rather be able to stop time or rewind time by ten seconds?
- Would you rather have a dragon as a pet or be a dragon for a day?
Travel and life
- Would you rather visit every country once or live in one perfect place forever?
- Would you rather explore space or the deep ocean?
- Would you rather be famous or be rich and unknown?
- Would you rather have a job you love with low pay or a boring job with high pay?
- Would you rather live 100 years in the past or 100 years in the future?
- Would you rather have a huge house with no friends nearby or a tiny flat next to your best friends?
- Would you rather go on holiday with your family or your friends?
- Would you rather never travel by plane again or never travel by car again?
- Would you rather relive your best day or skip your worst one?
- Would you rather always know the answer or always know the right question to ask?
Tough choices
Save these for the end. They spark the longest debates.
- Would you rather lose all your photos or all your messages?
- Would you rather your best friend read your diary or your search history?
- Would you rather be the best player on a losing team or the worst player on a winning team?
- Would you rather be forgotten or remembered for something embarrassing?
- Would you rather give up your phone for a month or your bed for a month?
- Would you rather always say what you think or never speak again?
- Would you rather have ten average friends or one amazing best friend?
- Would you rather fight one horse-sized duck or a hundred duck-sized horses?
- Would you rather know every secret your friends have or have them know all of yours?
- Would you rather be BLOCKED by your best friend for a week or never be able to send them memes again?
Why this game works so well
There is no right answer, so nobody loses, but you still learn something real about the people you play with. Someone who would rather have one amazing best friend than ten average ones is telling you something about how they see friendship. Someone who picks the giant duck is telling you something else entirely.
Want to see how well your friends can predict your choices? Make a quiz about yourself and send it to them. The highest score wins your eternal trust. The lowest gets BLOCKED.