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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's the best meal you've ever had on a trip?
13. What food combination do you love that other people find gross?
14. What popular food do you think is overrated?
15. What's your favorite weekend breakfast?
16. What holiday meal do you look forward to all year?
17. How do you take your coffee or tea, and who got you drinking it that way?
18. What's the best view you've ever seen in person?
19. Where would you go with a free weekend and a full tank of gas?
20. What place did you visit as a kid that you'd like to see again?
21. What's the worst place you've ever slept?
22. What do you always pack that most people leave at home?
23. What's the longest car, bus or train ride you've ever taken?
24. Which city would you live in for one year, just to try it?
25. What trip went wrong in a way that's funny now?
26. What's the best place you've found completely by accident?
27. Where's your favorite place to sit and do nothing?
28. Where do you want to go next, and what's the first thing you'd do there?
29. What place near where you grew up should more people know about?
30. What's your favorite thing about your street or neighborhood?
31. What was the best thing about the place you grew up?
32. What was your very first job, and what did it teach you?
33. What's the best advice a coworker ever gave you?
34. What tool or shortcut do you use every day that others might not know?
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's on your desk right now that says something about you?
38. What skill have you picked up in the last year?
39. What's the best team you've ever been part of, and what made it work?
40. What job would you try for one week just to see what it's like?
41. What small thing does a coworker do that makes your day easier?
42. What task do you put off the longest?
43. What do you listen to while you work or study?
44. What did you learn at a job that had nothing to do with the job?
45. What could you give a 10 minute talk on with no preparation?
46. What's the most useful thing from school that you still use?
47. What work habit did you borrow from someone else?
48. What was your first email address or screen name?
49. What do people at work come to you for help with?
50. What rule would you add to every meeting?
51. What did you do on your best day off this year?
52. What small win from this week did nobody notice?
53. Who has helped you most in your career, and what did they do?
54. What problem did you enjoy solving recently?
55. What makes a day at work feel like a good one?
56. What are you looking forward to this month?
57. What's one thing most people here don't know about you?
58. How do you switch off after a long day?
59. What mistake taught you something useful?
60. What do you wish people asked you about more often?
61. What's the best thing you've read or heard lately?
62. What are you proud of that isn't on your resume?
63. What's the kindest thing someone at work has done for you?
64. What project, at work or at home, did you enjoy most?
65. What makes you lose track of time?
66. What did the best boss you ever had do differently?
67. How do you celebrate finishing something hard?
68. What would you do with one extra hour every day?
69. What part of your morning do you look forward to?
70. Where do you do your best thinking?
71. What's the last new thing you tried, and how did it go?
72. What's the best thing about being the age you are now?
73. What would you put in a time capsule to open in 20 years?
74. What chore do you secretly enjoy?
75. What weather do you like most, and what do you do in it?
76. What's the best thing you ever made with your own hands?
77. What movie could you watch again tonight?
78. What song do you know every word to?
79. What's the most useless talent you have?
80. What's the best thing you've watched lately, without spoilers?
81. What trend did you never understand?
82. What's your most used emoji, and what does it say about you?
83. What's the best game, concert or live show you've ever been to?
84. What tiny opinion will you defend forever?
85. What word or phrase do you say too much?
86. What was your favorite game when you were seven?
87. What skill do you wish school taught?
88. What's your karaoke song, or the one you'd refuse to sing?
89. What would you name your band, and what would you play in it?
90. What small thing instantly improves your day?
91. What teacher do you still remember, and why?
92. What nickname have you had, and how did you get it?
93. What have you changed your mind about this year?
94. What sport would you compete in if you could pick any?
95. What would you put on a billboard in your town?
96. What's the strangest thing in your bag right now?
97. What movie or show does everyone love that you couldn't finish?
98. What's the first song you remember loving?
99. What decision are you glad you made?
100. What did you believe for far too long as a kid?
101. What's the longest you've kept a houseplant alive?
102. What's your best neighbor story?
103. What's the most ridiculous thing you own and refuse to throw away?
104. What was your first car like?
105. What's the last thing you fixed yourself?
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 risk did you take that worked out?
111. What does your perfect Saturday look like from morning to night?
112. What's the most trouble you got into as a kid?
113. What have you been meaning to try for years?
114. What would surprise your younger self most about your life now?
115. What book, show or film changed how you see something?
116. What small comfort would you never give up?
117. What skill would you master overnight if you could?
118. What hobby did you drop that you miss?
119. What's the best thing a stranger has ever done for you?
120. What sound or smell do you find oddly relaxing?
121. What did your childhood bedroom look like?
122. What's your favorite photo of yourself, and what's the story behind it?
123. What did your family do on weekends when you were little?
124. What do you like about your name, or what would you change it to?
125. What story about you does your family tell over and over?
126. What was your favorite toy when you were little?
127. What's the oldest thing you own, and where did it come from?
128. What's the best thing that happened to you this week?
129. What rule from your childhood home seems funny now?
130. What's the best pet story in your family?
131. What's your earliest memory?
132. Who taught you to ride a bike or swim, and how did it go?
133. What's the best thing about the person sitting to your left?
134. What do you remember about your first day of school?

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 work?

Five from this list: What was in your lunchbox most days as a kid? What's on your desk right now that says something about you? What's the kindest thing someone at work has done for you? What small thing instantly improves your day? What skill would you master overnight if you could?

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