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Updated November 2026.

1. What sound takes you straight back to the home you grew up in?
2. What did your bedroom look like when you were ten?
3. What's the first thing you bought with money you earned yourself?
4. What job did you want at age seven, and what happened to that plan?
5. What food did you hate as a kid and love now?
6. What's the most useful thing someone taught you in under five minutes?
7. What's hanging on your walls at home, and how did it get there?
8. What's the first song you played on repeat until someone begged you to stop?
9. What's the best meal you've ever eaten, and who was at the table?
10. What small thing reliably rescues a bad day for you?
11. What's the strangest job you've had or nearly took?
12. Where did you go on your first trip without your family?
13. What skill do you have that almost never comes up?
14. What were you known for in school?
15. What does your family do that other families find odd?
16. What was the best thing about the street you grew up on?
17. What's the last thing you couldn't wait to tell someone about?
18. What hobby did you drop that you still think about?
19. What movie have you seen so many times you can say the lines?
20. What song would you pick for karaoke with the whole room watching?
21. What does a perfect Saturday morning look like for you?
22. What are you weirdly competitive about?
23. What's the oldest thing you own and still use?
24. Who was the first friend you ever made, and how did it start?
25. What were you doing the last time you completely lost track of time?
26. What's the best advice you ignored at first?
27. What word or phrase do you say too much?
28. Where would you move tomorrow if work didn't matter?
29. What did you get in trouble for most as a kid?
30. What food from your hometown do people elsewhere get wrong?
31. What's the last thing you learned just because you were curious?
32. What subject could you give a ten-minute talk on with no notes?
33. Which teacher do you still remember, and what did they do?
34. What compliment did you get years ago and still remember?
35. What kind of kid were you at birthday parties?
36. What's the most out-of-character thing you've ever done?
37. What was your first email address or screen name?
38. What's the longest you've gone without your phone, and how did it go?
39. What was the first concert or live show you went to?
40. What are you a snob about?
41. What show have you pushed on everyone you know?
42. What's the best view you've ever woken up to?
43. What did you collect as a kid, and where is it now?
44. What rule do you live by that you made up yourself?
45. Who in your family are you most like?
46. How did you get your name?
47. What's the nicest thing a stranger has done for you?
48. What can you cook without a recipe?
49. What's the worst haircut you've ever had?
50. What did you do the summer after you finished school?
51. What did you believe as a kid that turned out to be completely wrong?
52. What's your idea of a great night in?
53. What were you like at fifteen?
54. What sport or game are you better at than people expect?
55. What's the picture on your phone's lock screen, and why that one?
56. What have you changed your mind about in the last few years?
57. Who's your oldest friend, and how did you two meet?
58. What sound do you love that most people never notice?
59. What's the first thing you remember being proud of?
60. What do your friends tease you about?
61. What place from your childhood no longer exists?
62. What snack did you beg for as a kid?
63. What's the best thing you've found by accident?
64. Which holiday tradition would you never give up?
65. What language would you love to wake up fluent in, and where would you go first?
66. What was your first pet's name, and who chose it?
67. What tiny luxury would you miss most on a camping trip?
68. What were family dinners like in your house growing up?
69. What do people usually get wrong about you at first?
70. What's the last thing that made you laugh until it hurt?
71. What game did you play for hours as a kid?
72. What's the best decision you made in the last year?
73. What did you want to be famous for when you were little?
74. What wrong turn or detour turned into a good story?
75. What's the most spontaneous thing you've done on a trip?
76. What job would you be terrible at?
77. What do you miss about being a teenager?
78. Who taught you to ride a bike or swim, and how did it go?
79. What's the first thing you'd show a visitor in your hometown?
80. What did you eat at your grandparents' house that you've never had anywhere else?
81. What's the best thing you learned from a job you didn't like?
82. What's in your bag or pockets right now that says something about you?
83. Where were you nervous to go that you ended up loving?
84. What do you always pack that other people think is odd?
85. What would you study if grades and careers didn't exist?
86. What object do you keep only because of the story behind it?
87. When did you last do something for the first time?
88. What's the worst thing you've ever cooked, and who had to eat it?
89. What totally useless talent are you proud of?
90. What did you think adults did all day when you were a kid?
91. What's the worst gift you've had to pretend to love?
92. What song do you know every word to and wish you didn't?
93. What's the funniest thing you've overheard in public?
94. What's the weirdest dream you can still remember?
95. What food opinion will you defend to the end?
96. What's the worst movie you love anyway?
97. What did you think was fancy when you were a kid?
98. What's the strangest place you've ever fallen asleep?
99. What's the most useless fact you know by heart?
100. Which rule in your childhood home made no sense?
101. What's the strangest thing in your fridge right now?
102. What everyday object took you embarrassingly long to figure out?
103. What would you cook to impress a date?
104. Where would you take me if you had one afternoon to show me your town?
105. What tiny detail about a person do you always remember?
106. What makes you feel comfortable around someone right away?
107. What could you teach me in ten minutes?
108. What's the best thing you've ever made with your own hands?
109. If you opened a store, what would it sell?
110. What's the best birthday you've had so far?
111. Which animal are you most like, and why?
112. What's your favorite smell in the whole world?

Tips for a better game

• Answer the question yourself too. People open up more when the asker goes first.
• Skip any card without explaining why. Nobody owes an answer.
• On a long drive or a quiet dinner, put the phone in the middle and let each person draw one.

Questions people ask

What are some good get to know you questions?

Five from this list: What's the first song you played on repeat until someone begged you to stop? What's the last thing you learned just because you were curious? What were you like at fifteen? What job would you be terrible at? What's the strangest place you've ever fallen asleep?

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