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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's the strangest thing you've eaten for breakfast and enjoyed?
2. What goes on your perfect sandwich?
3. What meal could you eat every day for a month?
4. What's the best thing you know how to cook?
5. What snack do you always get at the movies?
6. What ice cream flavor would you invent if you ran the shop?
7. What topping ruins a pizza for you?
8. What candy would you grab first from a full bowl?
9. What food do you refuse to share?
10. What food combination do you love that other people find gross?
11. What popular food do you think is overrated?
12. What would you put on the menu if you planned dinner for a week?
13. What holiday meal do you look forward to all year?
14. Who's the best cook in your family, and what's their best dish?
15. What's the worst place you've ever slept?
16. What's the longest car, bus or train ride you've ever taken?
17. Which city would you live in for one year, just to try it?
18. What's your favorite thing to do on a long car ride?
19. Where's your favorite place to sit and do nothing?
20. Where do you want to go next, and what's the first thing you'd do there?
21. What did you want to be when you were ten?
22. What skill have you picked up in the last year?
23. What's the best team you've ever been part of, and what made it work?
24. What job would you try for one week just to see what it's like?
25. What task do you put off the longest?
26. What do you listen to while you work or study?
27. What could you give a 10 minute talk on with no preparation?
28. What are you looking forward to this month?
29. What's one thing most people here don't know about you?
30. What mistake taught you something useful?
31. What makes you lose track of time?
32. How do you celebrate finishing something hard?
33. What would you do with one extra hour every day?
34. Where do you do your best thinking?
35. What's the last new thing you tried, and how did it go?
36. What animal would you keep as a pet if any animal were allowed?
37. What superpower would you pick, and what would you do with it first?
38. What's the funniest thing that has ever happened at school?
39. What game do you never get tired of playing?
40. What's the best birthday you've ever had?
41. What's the funniest joke you know?
42. What do you want to learn how to do this year?
43. What's the best thing about being the age you are now?
44. What would you put in a time capsule to open in 20 years?
45. What's your favorite book or story, and who's the best character in it?
46. What rule would you make if you ran your school?
47. What chore do you secretly enjoy?
48. What sport or game would you add to gym class?
49. What's the nicest thing a friend has done for you?
50. What do you like best about your best friend?
51. What's the best costume you've ever worn?
52. What would you pack for a trip to the moon?
53. What are you good at that you could teach the class?
54. What makes you laugh every time?
55. What's the best present you've ever given someone?
56. What animal would you like to talk to, and what would you ask it?
57. What's the tallest thing you've ever climbed?
58. What game have you made up yourself?
59. What's the best thing you ever made with your own hands?
60. What movie could you watch again tonight?
61. What's your favorite thing to do in summer?
62. What's the best thing in your room?
63. What's the best sleepover you've ever been to?
64. What would you do with a whole day and no screens?
65. What's the biggest mess you ever made at home?
66. What would you do on a perfect snow day?
67. What song do you know every word to?
68. What's the most useless talent you have?
69. What class would you add to your school?
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 do you do when you should be doing homework?
77. What's the first place you'd drive with a new license?
78. What word or phrase do you say too much?
79. What's the weirdest dream you remember?
80. What do you watch when you've had a bad day?
81. What were your parents right about?
82. What was your favorite game when you were seven?
83. What skill do you wish school taught?
84. What's your karaoke song, or the one you'd refuse to sing?
85. What fictional world would you move to?
86. What old photo of you makes you cringe, and what are you wearing?
87. What would you name your band, and what would you play in it?
88. What do your friends always tease you about?
89. What small thing instantly improves your day?
90. What teacher do you still remember, and why?
91. What's the best advice you've ever ignored?
92. What nickname have you had, and how did you get it?
93. What was the last thing you stayed up way too late for?
94. What have you changed your mind about this year?
95. What sport would you compete in if you could pick any?
96. What would you put on a billboard in your town?
97. What's the strangest thing in your bag right now?
98. Who's the funniest person you know, and what's one thing they did?
99. What's the best prank you've seen or pulled?
100. What movie or show does everyone love that you couldn't finish?
101. What's the first song you remember loving?
102. What are you the expert on in your friend group?
103. What do you only do when no one's home?
104. What did you believe for far too long as a kid?
105. What's the most ridiculous thing you own and refuse to throw away?
106. What's the worst haircut you've ever had?
107. What compliment do you still remember years later?
108. What's the worst advice you've ever been given?
109. Which friend have you known the longest, and how did you meet?
110. What's the best gift you've ever received, and who gave it?
111. What's your most irrational fear?
112. What book, show or film changed how you see something?
113. What skill would you master overnight if you could?
114. What's the best thing a stranger has ever done for you?
115. What sound or smell do you find oddly relaxing?
116. What's the best surprise you've ever had?
117. What's your favorite photo of yourself, and what's the story behind it?
118. What dream have you had since you were a kid?
119. What do you like about your name, or what would you change it to?
120. What story about you does your family tell over and over?
121. Who in your family are you most like, and how?
122. What's the best family trip you remember?
123. What game should our family play more often?
124. What were you like as a baby, according to your family?
125. What do you want us to do together as a family this year?
126. What's the best thing that happened to you this week?
127. What's the best pet story in your family?
128. What would our family be famous for?
129. What did you and your siblings or cousins fight about most?
130. What's your earliest memory?
131. What song does everyone in this family know?
132. Who taught you to ride a bike or swim, and how did it go?
133. What did a grandparent or older relative teach you?
134. What's the best thing about the person sitting to your left?
135. What family photo makes you laugh, and what's happening in it?
136. What do you remember about your first day of school?
137. What would you ask your great-grandparents if you could?
138. What's the best thing to do when the power goes out?
139. What place should our family visit someday?

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 teens?

Five from this list: What food combination do you love that other people find gross? What's the funniest thing that has ever happened at school? What would you do on a perfect snow day? What have you changed your mind about this year? Who in your family are you most like, and how?

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