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1. Pick the list that fits the group: work, classroom, friends or a date.
2. Read a card and go round the circle, or let the reader choose who answers.
3. Keep answers under a minute. One follow-up question is allowed.

Updated November 2026.

1. What food did you hate as a kid and love now?
2. What's the strangest thing you've eaten for breakfast and enjoyed?
3. What goes on your perfect sandwich?
4. What meal could you eat every day for a month?
5. What's the best thing you know how to cook?
6. What food smell takes you straight back to childhood?
7. What's the worst kitchen disaster you've caused?
8. What topping ruins a pizza for you?
9. What dish from your family does nobody else make right?
10. What was in your lunchbox most days as a kid?
11. What do you order when you can't decide what you want?
12. What food do you refuse to share?
13. What's the best meal you've ever had on a trip?
14. What food combination do you love that other people find gross?
15. What popular food do you think is overrated?
16. What's your favorite weekend breakfast?
17. What holiday meal do you look forward to all year?
18. Who's the best cook in your family, and what's their best dish?
19. How do you take your coffee or tea, and who got you drinking it that way?
20. What's the best view you've ever seen in person?
21. Where would you go with a free weekend and a full tank of gas?
22. What place did you visit as a kid that you'd like to see again?
23. What's the worst place you've ever slept?
24. What do you always pack that most people leave at home?
25. What's the longest car, bus or train ride you've ever taken?
26. Which city would you live in for one year, just to try it?
27. What trip went wrong in a way that's funny now?
28. What's the best place you've found completely by accident?
29. Where's your favorite place to sit and do nothing?
30. Where do you want to go next, and what's the first thing you'd do there?
31. What place near where you grew up should more people know about?
32. What's your favorite thing about your street or neighborhood?
33. What was the best thing about the place you grew up?
34. What was your very first job, and what did it teach you?
35. What did you want to be when you were ten?
36. What's the oddest task you've ever been given at work?
37. What skill have you picked up in the last year?
38. What job would you try for one week just to see what it's like?
39. What task do you put off the longest?
40. What do you listen to while you work or study?
41. What did you learn at a job that had nothing to do with the job?
42. What could you give a 10 minute talk on with no preparation?
43. What's the most useful thing from school that you still use?
44. What was your first email address or screen name?
45. What did you do on your best day off this year?
46. What are you looking forward to this month?
47. What's one thing most people here don't know about you?
48. How do you switch off after a long day?
49. What mistake taught you something useful?
50. What do you wish people asked you about more often?
51. What's the best thing you've read or heard lately?
52. What are you proud of that isn't on your resume?
53. What project, at work or at home, did you enjoy most?
54. What makes you lose track of time?
55. How do you celebrate finishing something hard?
56. What would you do with one extra hour every day?
57. What part of your morning do you look forward to?
58. Where do you do your best thinking?
59. What's the last new thing you tried, and how did it go?
60. What's the best birthday you've ever had?
61. What's the best thing about being the age you are now?
62. What chore do you secretly enjoy?
63. What's the best costume you've ever worn?
64. What's the best present you've ever given someone?
65. What's the best thing you ever made with your own hands?
66. What movie could you watch again tonight?
67. What would you do on a perfect snow day?
68. What song do you know every word to?
69. What's the most useless talent you have?
70. What's the best thing you've watched lately, without spoilers?
71. What trend did you never understand?
72. What's your most used emoji, and what does it say about you?
73. What's the best game, concert or live show you've ever been to?
74. What tiny opinion will you defend forever?
75. What's the last thing that made you laugh until it hurt?
76. What word or phrase do you say too much?
77. What's the weirdest dream you remember?
78. What do you watch when you've had a bad day?
79. What were your parents right about?
80. What was your favorite game when you were seven?
81. What skill do you wish school taught?
82. What's your karaoke song, or the one you'd refuse to sing?
83. What fictional world would you move to?
84. What old photo of you makes you cringe, and what are you wearing?
85. What would you name your band, and what would you play in it?
86. What do your friends always tease you about?
87. What small thing instantly improves your day?
88. What teacher do you still remember, and why?
89. What's the best advice you've ever ignored?
90. What nickname have you had, and how did you get it?
91. What was the last thing you stayed up way too late for?
92. What have you changed your mind about this year?
93. What sport would you compete in if you could pick any?
94. What would you put on a billboard in your town?
95. Who's the funniest person you know, and what's one thing they did?
96. What's the best prank you've seen or pulled?
97. What movie or show does everyone love that you couldn't finish?
98. What's the first song you remember loving?
99. What are you the expert on in your friend group?
100. What do you only do when no one's home?
101. What's the most grown-up thing you did this week?
102. What's the worst apartment or house you've ever lived in?
103. What moment first made you feel like a real adult?
104. What decision are you glad you made?
105. What do you do on a night with zero plans?
106. What's the worst date you've ever been on?
107. What's the pettiest reason you've stopped going to a restaurant?
108. What did you swear you'd never do as an adult, and now do?
109. What did you believe for far too long as a kid?
110. What's the longest you've kept a houseplant alive?
111. What's your best neighbor story?
112. What's the most ridiculous thing you own and refuse to throw away?
113. What was your first car like?
114. What party do you still think about?
115. What's the last thing you fixed yourself?
116. What habit from your parents have you caught yourself repeating?
117. What do you wish you'd started ten years earlier?
118. What's your signature drink, with or without alcohol?
119. What's the worst haircut you've ever had?
120. What compliment do you still remember years later?
121. What's the worst advice you've ever been given?
122. Which friend have you known the longest, and how did you meet?
123. What risk did you take that worked out?
124. What does your perfect Saturday look like from morning to night?
125. What's the most trouble you got into as a kid?
126. What have you been meaning to try for years?
127. What's the best gift you've ever received, and who gave it?
128. What would surprise your younger self most about your life now?
129. What's the best wedding, reunion or big party you've been to?
130. What's your most irrational fear?
131. What book, show or film changed how you see something?
132. What small comfort would you never give up?
133. What skill would you master overnight if you could?
134. What hobby did you drop that you miss?
135. What's the best thing a stranger has ever done for you?
136. What sound or smell do you find oddly relaxing?
137. What song makes you think of someone you love?
138. What's the most romantic thing anyone has done for you?
139. What were you like in high school?
140. What family tradition would you like to keep going?
141. What meal would you cook to impress a date?
142. What's the best date you've ever been on?
143. What did your childhood bedroom look like?
144. What do you find attractive that surprises people?
145. What's the best surprise you've ever had?
146. What's your favorite photo of yourself, and what's the story behind it?
147. What did your family do on weekends when you were little?
148. What dream have you had since you were a kid?
149. What do you like about your name, or what would you change it to?
150. What's the bravest thing you've done for someone you liked?
151. What's the funniest thing that ever happened at a family dinner?
152. What story about you does your family tell over and over?
153. Who in your family are you most like, and how?
154. What's the best family trip you remember?
155. What was your grandparents' home like when you visited?
156. What was your favorite toy when you were little?
157. What's the oldest thing you own, and where did it come from?
158. What's the best thing that happened to you this week?
159. What birthday present did you want most as a kid?
160. What rule from your childhood home seems funny now?
161. What job did one of your grandparents do, and would you have liked it?
162. What's the best pet story in your family?
163. What did you and your siblings or cousins fight about most?
164. What's your earliest memory?
165. Who taught you to ride a bike or swim, and how did it go?
166. What did a grandparent or older relative teach you?
167. What family photo makes you laugh, and what's happening in it?
168. What do you remember about your first day of school?
169. What would you ask your great-grandparents if you could?
170. What's the best thing to do when the power goes out?

Tips for a better game

• In a meeting, one question at the start is enough. Go alphabetically so nobody has to volunteer.
• The person who answers picks who goes next.
• In a big group, split into pairs for two minutes and have each person introduce their partner's answer.

Questions people ask

What are some good icebreaker questions for adults?

Five from this list: What food do you refuse to share? What are you looking forward to this month? What was your favorite game when you were seven? What party do you still think about? What dream have you had since you were a kid?

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