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3. Ask one follow-up before moving on. The follow-up is usually where the good part is.

Updated November 2026.

1. If your pet could talk, what secret would it tell first?
2. What would your wrestling name be, and what's your finishing move?
3. Which animal would make the worst waiter?
4. Which vegetable would win in a fight, and why?
5. What sound effect should play every time you walk into a room?
6. If you were a ghost, how would you annoy the people in your house?
7. If you were a sandwich, what would be in you?
8. What's the silliest thing you're scared of?
9. What's the weirdest dream you can still remember?
10. Which cartoon character would be the worst roommate?
11. What would you do with one day of being invisible?
12. What would your pirate name be, and what would you refuse to steal?
13. If you could have any animal as a pet, what would it be and where would it sleep?
14. What would you teach if you were the teacher for one day?
15. What's the best thing in your lunchbox, and what would you trade away?
16. If your toys came alive at night, what would they do first?
17. What would you name a pet dragon, and what would you feed it?
18. What's the funniest thing that has ever happened at school?
19. Which superpower would be the most fun at recess?
20. What would you build with a million building blocks?
21. What's your favorite game to play at recess, and how do you play it?
22. If you could make one new school rule, what would it be?
23. What would be inside your dream treehouse?
24. Who is the kindest person in your class, and what do they do?
25. Which animal would cause the most trouble on a school bus?
26. What's the best thing you've ever made with your own hands?
27. If you were in charge of school lunch, what would be on the menu?
28. What do you think your pet does when everyone leaves the house?
29. What's the hardest thing you've learned to do?
30. What would your very own planet look like?
31. What job would you like when you grow up, and what's the best part of it?
32. What's the best story anyone has ever read to you?
33. What would you put in a time capsule for kids in the future?
34. If you shrank to the size of an ant, where would you explore first?
35. What did a friend do that made you really happy?
36. What's the silliest face you can make, and who taught it to you?
37. What would you invent to make mornings easier?
38. Which animal would you swap lives with for a week?
39. What would you do on a snow day with no rules?
40. What food would you make everyone in the world try?
41. What's the bravest thing you've ever done?
42. If you opened a store, what would it sell?
43. What do grown-ups do that makes no sense to you?
44. What would your robot helper do for you?
45. What sound always makes you laugh?
46. What would you do if you found a door in your room that wasn't there yesterday?
47. What's the coolest thing you learned this week?
48. Who makes you laugh the most, and how do they do it?
49. What would you cook for dinner if you were the chef tonight?
50. What's the best fort you've ever built, and what was it made of?
51. What would you ask a dinosaur if it could talk?
52. What game did you make up yourself, and what are the rules?
53. What makes you feel better when you're sad?
54. What do you want to be really good at someday?
55. If you could paint your room any way you like, what would it look like?
56. What's the best birthday you've had so far?
57. What would you pack for a trip to the moon?
58. What's the nicest thing you did for someone this week?
59. Which animal are you most like, and why?
60. If it could rain anything except water, what should it rain?
61. What's the first thing you'd do if you woke up as a cat?
62. What can you do now that you couldn't do last year?
63. Which rule at home would you change, and what would you swap it for?
64. If you wrote a book, what would it be about?
65. What's the best hiding spot you've ever found?
66. What would your dream playground have in it?
67. Which subject at school would you make twice as long?
68. What's the funniest word you know?
69. What would you do with a whole day at home and no screens?
70. If your favorite toy had a job, what would it be?
71. What's your favorite smell in the whole world?
72. What would you plant in a magic garden?
73. What do you think clouds taste like?
74. What's your favorite thing to do with a grown-up in your family?
75. What do you think your teacher does on the weekend?
76. What would your pet say about you if it wrote your report card?
77. What do you wish grown-ups would ask you about?
78. If you could add one new holiday to the calendar, what would everyone do on it?

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 questions to ask kids?

Five from this list: If you were a ghost, how would you annoy the people in your house? If you could make one new school rule, what would it be? What would you invent to make mornings easier? What makes you feel better when you're sad? What's the funniest word you know?

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