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1. One person reads the question out loud.
2. Everyone picks an option at the same time, by pointing or by holding up one or two fingers.
3. Each side gets one sentence to defend its choice. Then go to the next card.

Updated November 2026.

1. Would you rather fly but only three feet off the ground or turn invisible but only while holding your breath?
2. Would you rather talk to animals or speak every human language?
3. Would you rather be able to breathe underwater or never need to sleep?
4. Would you rather teleport anywhere you have already been or time travel to the past but only to watch?
5. Would you rather shrink to the size of an ant whenever you want or grow as tall as a giraffe whenever you want?
6. Would you rather control the weather in your town or choose the music in every room you walk into?
7. Would you rather have a photographic memory or be able to forget anything you choose?
8. Would you rather have a rewind button for your life or have a pause button for your life?
9. Would you rather stop time for ten minutes every day or relive one day from your past once a year?
10. Would you rather have super strength but only in your pinky or have super speed but only while hopping on one foot?
11. Would you rather be able to talk to plants or be able to talk to machines?
12. Would you rather never feel cold again or never feel tired again?
13. Would you rather glow in the dark or make any sound effect perfectly with your mouth?
14. Would you rather have a clone who does your chores but tells everyone your secrets or do all your own chores forever?
15. Would you rather have x-ray vision that only works on wrapped presents or have heat vision that only warms up hot chocolate?
16. Would you rather eat only cold pizza for a year or eat only warm salad for a year?
17. Would you rather give up cheese forever or give up chocolate forever?
18. Would you rather eat breakfast food for every meal or never eat breakfast food again?
19. Would you rather eat a spoonful of hot sauce or eat a spoonful of plain mayonnaise?
20. Would you rather eat a bug that tastes like candy or eat candy that looks exactly like a bug?
21. Would you rather only eat food that is green or only eat food that is orange?
22. Would you rather give up french fries forever or give up ice cream forever?
23. Would you rather eat every meal with chopsticks, even cereal or eat every meal with your hands, even soup?
24. Would you rather have every sandwich you eat be a little soggy or have every chip you eat be a little stale?
25. Would you rather be a world-class baker or be a world-class grill master?
26. Would you rather bite into a raw onion like an apple or drink a full glass of pickle juice?
27. Would you rather live without salt or live without sugar?
28. Would you rather only eat soup for a month or only eat sandwiches for a month?
29. Would you rather find a hair in your food at a fancy restaurant or have the waiter spill a drink in your lap?
30. Would you rather only have pineapple pizza forever or only have pizza with no cheese forever?
31. Would you rather have a chocolate fountain in your kitchen or have a cookie jar that never runs out?
32. Would you rather eat a whole lemon, peel and all or eat a big spoonful of mustard?
33. Would you rather always smell like onions or always smell like a wet dog?
34. Would you rather walk around all day with spinach in your teeth or walk around all day with toilet paper stuck to your shoe?
35. Would you rather step on a slug barefoot or put your hand in a bowl of cold oatmeal in the dark?
36. Would you rather burp every time you laugh or sneeze every time you say your own name?
37. Would you rather wear soggy socks all day or wear an itchy wool sweater all day in summer?
38. Would you rather brush your teeth with soap or wash your hair with ketchup?
39. Would you rather sit in a bathtub full of cold spaghetti or sit in a bathtub full of warm pudding?
40. Would you rather have hiccups for the rest of your life or feel like you are about to sneeze for the rest of your life?
41. Would you rather sweat maple syrup or cry lemonade?
42. Would you rather drool on your pillow every night or snore so loud the neighbors can hear?
43. Would you rather eat a fried cricket or eat cake that fell on the kitchen floor?
44. Would you rather go to school six days a week for three hours a day or go to school four days a week for eight hours a day?
45. Would you rather be really good at math or be really good at drawing?
46. Would you rather accidentally call your teacher mom or wave back at someone who was waving at the person behind you?
47. Would you rather have a pet penguin or have a pet monkey?
48. Would you rather be a cat for a day or be a dog for a day?
49. Would you rather have a dog that talks but only about food or have a cat that talks but only to insult you?
50. Would you rather have a pet dragon the size of a cat or have a pet cat the size of a horse?
51. Would you rather be chased by an angry goose or be chased by a chicken the size of a dog?
52. Would you rather live in a house with a hundred cats or live in a house with one very friendly bear?
53. Would you rather have a pet that lives for a hundred years or get a brand new pet every year?
54. Would you rather swim with whales or walk with penguins in Antarctica?
55. Would you rather know there is a cockroach in your bedroom you cannot find or know there is a mouse in your kitchen you cannot catch?
56. Would you rather have a parrot that repeats everything you say or have a dog that barks every time you tell a lie?
57. Would you rather have a robot that cleans your house or have a robot that cooks all your meals?
58. Would you rather have a self-driving car or have a flying car you have to fly yourself?
59. Would you rather live in the 1800s or live 200 years in the future?
60. Would you rather own a robot dog that never needs walking or own a real puppy that never grows up?
61. Would you rather live in a smart home that talks back to you or live in a home with no electronics at all?
62. Would you rather explore outer space or explore the deepest part of the ocean?
63. Would you rather live on a houseboat or live in a treehouse?
64. Would you rather live in a big city forever or live in the countryside forever?
65. Would you rather always be ten minutes late or always be thirty minutes early?
66. Would you rather live where it is always summer or live where it is always winter?
67. Would you rather camp in the woods for a week or spend one night in a haunted hotel?
68. Would you rather travel everywhere by hot air balloon or travel everywhere by submarine?
69. Would you rather see the northern lights or see a total solar eclipse?
70. Would you rather have a house with a pool or have a house with a home movie theater?
71. Would you rather have a car that always smells like fries or have a car radio stuck on one station?
72. Would you rather never have to do laundry again or never have to wash dishes again?
73. Would you rather have dinner with your whole extended family every Sunday or see them only once a year for a whole week?
74. Would you rather have your grandparents' childhood or have your parents' childhood?
75. Would you rather be the oldest sibling or be the youngest sibling?
76. Would you rather have ten brothers and sisters or be an only child?
77. Would you rather trade lives with a parent for a day or trade lives with a grandparent for a day?
78. Would you rather have your whole family live in one big house or have each family member live on a different continent?
79. Would you rather take a camper van road trip with your family or spend a week at a fancy hotel you are not allowed to leave?
80. Would you rather cook dinner for the whole family or wash all the dishes afterward?
81. Would you rather have your embarrassing childhood stories told at your wedding or have your baby photos shown at your graduation?
82. Would you rather have your house be the one every cousin visits or never have houseguests at all?
83. Would you rather start a family band or start a family sports team?
84. Would you rather have a grandparent who secretly knows magic or have a grandparent who was secretly a spy?
85. Would you rather let your little cousin cut your hair or let your little cousin pick your outfits for a week?
86. Would you rather have a family dinner where everyone must talk in rhymes or have a family dinner where everyone must talk like pirates?
87. Would you rather inherit your grandma's cooking skills or inherit your grandpa's fix-anything skills?
88. Would you rather let your little brother or sister name your pet or let your parents pick your first car?
89. Would you rather share a bedroom with your sibling until you are 18 or share one bathroom with five people?
90. Would you rather have a family reunion at a theme park or have a family reunion at a beach house?
91. Would you rather host every holiday at your house or travel to someone else's house every holiday?
92. Would you rather get one big present or get ten small presents?
93. Would you rather have Christmas every month or have your birthday every week?
94. Would you rather open presents on Christmas Eve or open presents on Christmas morning?
95. Would you rather build a giant snowman or have a giant snowball fight?
96. Would you rather be one of Santa's elves or be one of Santa's reindeer?
97. Would you rather have a real Christmas tree or have a fake tree that never drops a needle?
98. Would you rather eat only Christmas cookies for a week or eat only candy canes for a week?
99. Would you rather wrap every gift for the whole family or cook the whole holiday dinner?
100. Would you rather get socks every Christmas forever or get a mystery box every Christmas that could be amazing or awful?
101. Would you rather live inside a snow globe or live inside a gingerbread house?
102. Would you rather have it snow every day in December or have a warm sunny Christmas and never see snow again?
103. Would you rather go caroling door to door or perform in the holiday play?
104. Would you rather do a white elephant gift swap or do a secret Santa?
105. Would you rather get a handmade gift or get an expensive store-bought gift?
106. Would you rather take the family holiday photo in matching pajamas or take it in matching ugly sweaters?
107. Would you rather spend the holidays at a snowy ski lodge or spend the holidays on a tropical beach?
108. Would you rather hear the same holiday song on repeat all December or hear no holiday music at all?
109. Would you rather untangle every string of lights or put the lights up on the roof?
110. Would you rather have ham for the holiday dinner or have turkey for the holiday dinner?
111. Would you rather have a fireplace that never goes out or have a mug of hot chocolate that never gets cold?
112. Would you rather get snowed in at home for a week or get stuck at the airport for two days over the holidays?
113. Would you rather accidentally regift a present to the person who gave it to you or get caught peeking at your presents?
114. Would you rather give a holiday toast in front of everyone or sing a carol solo in front of everyone?
115. Would you rather get a puppy for Christmas or get a trip to the snow for Christmas?
116. Would you rather say something nice about every relative at holiday dinner or let every relative say one thing about you?
117. Would you rather give up holiday cookies or give up holiday movies?
118. Would you rather put up decorations on November 1st or wait until December 20th?
119. Would you rather go sledding or go ice skating?
120. Would you rather open one present a day for twelve days or open all your presents at once?
121. Would you rather have a holiday dinner where everything is dessert or have a holiday dinner where everything is mashed potatoes?
122. Would you rather shovel the driveway every morning all winter or scrape the ice off every car on your street once?
123. Would you rather have a cat that knocks the tree over every day or have a dog that unwraps every present early?
124. Would you rather write a thank-you note for every gift or call every relative to thank them out loud?
125. Would you rather know the answer to any one question or ask your future self one question?
126. Would you rather relive your best day or erase your worst day?
127. Would you rather have more time or have more money?
128. Would you rather go back to age 10 knowing everything you know now or fast-forward to age 80 with all your memories?
129. Would you rather be the best in the world at one thing or be pretty good at everything?
130. Would you rather meet your 10-year-old self or meet your 80-year-old self?
131. Would you rather have a friend who is always honest or have a friend who is always kind?
132. Would you rather have your parents show your baby pictures to your friends or have your parents dance at your party?
133. Would you rather get caught singing loudly alone in the car or get caught talking to yourself in the mirror?
134. Would you rather sneeze on someone by accident or have someone sneeze right on you?
135. Would you rather sing instead of talking or dance instead of walking?
136. Would you rather have everyone hear your thoughts for a day or have a narrator describe everything you do out loud?
137. Would you rather have your most embarrassing moment shown on a billboard or have it retold at every family dinner?
138. Would you rather tell a joke every time you walk into a room or bow every time you leave one?
139. Would you rather only speak in questions or only speak in rhymes?
140. Would you rather have a dinosaur as a neighbor or have a ghost as a roommate?
141. Would you rather only be able to whisper or only be able to shout?
142. Would you rather live in a world where cats are in charge or live in a world where dogs are in charge?
143. Would you rather get one full-size candy bar from every house or get a handful of tiny candies from every house?
144. Would you rather carve a pumpkin with a spoon or carve a pumpkin wearing oven mitts?
145. Would you rather live in a haunted house with a friendly ghost or live in a normal house with a very grumpy cat?
146. Would you rather eat only candy corn for a day or eat only pumpkin pie for a day?
147. Would you rather be a ghost who can walk through walls or be a witch who can fly on a broom?
148. Would you rather trick-or-treat in a snowstorm or trick-or-treat in a heat wave wearing a furry costume?
149. Would you rather howl like a werewolf every time you laugh or cackle like a witch every time you sneeze?
150. Would you rather find a skeleton key that opens any door or find a broom that flies, but only two feet off the ground?
151. Would you rather be lost in a corn maze for two hours or be stuck on a hayride that circles the same field for two hours?
152. Would you rather have a talking black cat that gossips about you or have a talking owl that corrects your grammar?
153. Would you rather eat a caramel apple with no hands or eat a powdered donut off a string with no hands?
154. Would you rather be the mummy who keeps unraveling or be the vampire whose fangs keep falling out?
155. Would you rather give out the best candy on the street or have the best decorated house on the street?
156. Would you rather let your little brother or sister pick your costume or let your grandma pick your costume?
157. Would you rather bob for apples in ice water or dig through a bowl of cold spaghetti for a prize?
158. Would you rather only be able to whisper on Halloween night or only be able to shout on Halloween night?
159. Would you rather hand out candy all night to other people's kids or take six overtired kids trick-or-treating?
160. Would you rather be the house that gives out toothbrushes or be the house that gives out raisins?
161. Would you rather wear skeleton pajamas to the grocery store or wear a full witch costume to a parent-teacher meeting?
162. Would you rather stay up until midnight and be grumpy all day tomorrow or go to bed at eight and wake up to pancakes?
163. Would you rather wear a party hat every day for a week or blow a party horn every time you enter a room for a week?
164. Would you rather pick the whole family's resolution or skip one chore for the entire year?
165. Would you rather count down to midnight inside a pillow fort or count down at the top of a tall tower?
166. Would you rather start the new year with a snow day or start it with a beach day?
167. Would you rather eat twelve grapes at midnight, one for each chime or eat one giant cookie the size of a clock?
168. Would you rather lead the countdown on a giant stage or press the button that launches the fireworks?
169. Would you rather sleep through midnight every year or have to stay awake until sunrise every year?
170. Would you rather have every balloon at the party follow you around or have confetti fall every time you sneeze?
171. Would you rather sweep up all the confetti by yourself or wash every dish from the party?
172. Would you rather celebrate midnight in every time zone, one hour at a time or celebrate once with the biggest fireworks show on Earth?
173. Would you rather relive your best day of this year or get a preview of your best day of next year?
174. Would you rather give up your phone for all of January or give up sweets for all of January?
175. Would you rather write a letter to yourself to open next New Year's Eve or read a letter you wrote yourself a year ago?
176. Would you rather eat only mashed potatoes all day or eat only pumpkin pie all day?
177. Would you rather have gravy come out of every faucet in your house or have cranberry sauce for toothpaste?
178. Would you rather hold the rope of a giant parade balloon or ride a parade float and wave for three hours?
179. Would you rather wear a pilgrim hat to school for a week or gobble like a turkey every time you say hello?
180. Would you rather eat dinner with only a giant serving spoon or eat dinner with only a toothpick?
181. Would you rather wash every dish by hand after dinner or peel potatoes for 30 people before it?
182. Would you rather be stuck in holiday traffic for five hours or be stuck in an airport for five hours?
183. Would you rather have leftovers every day for a month or have one perfect plate and no leftovers at all?
184. Would you rather say what you're thankful for in a song or say it in a rhyming poem you make up on the spot?
185. Would you rather have every food on your plate touching or eat your foods one at a time in alphabetical order?
186. Would you rather watch football all day without a nap or nap all day without any football?
187. Would you rather serve a turkey that's a little dry or serve gravy that's a little lumpy?
188. Would you rather eat only the orange foods or eat only the white foods?
189. Would you rather sleep on an air mattress that slowly goes flat or sleep on a couch that's a foot too short?
190. Would you rather share one bathroom with nine relatives all weekend or share a bed with a cousin who kicks?
191. Would you rather win the wishbone every year or get the last slice of pie every year?
192. Would you rather wear stretchy pants to a fancy dinner or wear a fancy outfit to an all-you-can-eat buffet?
193. Would you rather have marshmallows on everything on your plate or have gravy on everything, even the pie?
194. Would you rather play touch football in the yard with your cousins or play board games inside next to the pie?
195. Would you rather eat Thanksgiving dinner at a restaurant with no dishes to wash or eat at home and keep all the leftovers?
196. Would you rather drop the turkey on the floor with nobody watching or drop the pie with everybody watching?
197. Would you rather hear the same family story for the tenth time or be the embarrassing story this year?
198. Would you rather eat a leftover sandwich the size of your head or eat a slice of pie the size of your plate?
199. Would you rather be the only adult at the kids' table or be the only kid at the grown-up table?

Tips for a better game

• Ban "neither" and "it depends". Being forced to choose is what makes people argue.
• If the group splits evenly, the reader decides which side argued better.
• Keep a tally. Whoever lands in the minority most often reads the next round.

Questions people ask

What are some good Would You Rather questions for families?

Five from this list: Would you rather have a rewind button for your life or have a pause button for your life? Would you rather only have pineapple pizza forever or only have pizza with no cheese forever? Would you rather live in a house with a hundred cats or live in a house with one very friendly bear? Would you rather have your grandparents' childhood or have your parents' childhood? Would you rather be the best in the world at one thing or be pretty good at everything?

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