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New Year's Eve Would You Rather questions

Dilemmas about resolutions, midnight, the year behind you and the one ahead.

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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 stay up until midnight and be grumpy all day tomorrow or go to bed at eight and wake up to pancakes?
2. 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?
3. Would you rather have fireworks that smell like popcorn or have fireworks that play your favorite song?
4. Would you rather pick the whole family's resolution or skip one chore for the entire year?
5. Would you rather count down to midnight inside a pillow fort or count down at the top of a tall tower?
6. Would you rather own a confetti cannon that never runs out or own a glow stick that never fades?
7. Would you rather start the new year with a snow day or start it with a beach day?
8. Would you rather eat twelve grapes at midnight, one for each chime or eat one giant cookie the size of a clock?
9. Would you rather have a robot that keeps your resolutions for you or have a time machine that only goes back one day?
10. Would you rather lead the countdown on a giant stage or press the button that launches the fireworks?
11. Would you rather have midnight happen twice tonight or skip straight to your next birthday?
12. Would you rather sleep through midnight every year or have to stay awake until sunrise every year?
13. Would you rather ring in the new year on the moon or ring it in at the bottom of the sea in a submarine?
14. Would you rather have every balloon at the party follow you around or have confetti fall every time you sneeze?
15. Would you rather learn to juggle next year or learn to do a backflip next year?
16. Would you rather sweep up all the confetti by yourself or wash every dish from the party?
17. Would you rather celebrate midnight in every time zone, one hour at a time or celebrate once with the biggest fireworks show on Earth?
18. Would you rather have a pet that can talk only on New Year's Eve or be able to fly for one minute every midnight?
19. Would you rather relive your best day of this year or get a preview of your best day of next year?
20. Would you rather have your most embarrassing moment of the year shown on a big screen at midnight or give a five-minute speech about your year with no notes?
21. Would you rather give up your phone for all of January or give up sweets for all of January?
22. Would you rather have your year turned into a movie or have it turned into a song everyone knows?
23. Would you rather know one thing that will happen to you next year or change one thing that happened this year?
24. Would you rather spend New Year's Eve at a huge street party or spend it with four friends and a table of snacks?
25. 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?
26. Would you rather kiss someone at midnight who never texts back or spend midnight alone in the bathroom line?
27. Would you rather start the year with a spotless house or start it with an empty inbox?
28. Would you rather host the party and do all the cleanup or be a guest at a party where you know nobody?
29. Would you rather be asleep by ten on New Year's Eve or be out until five in the morning?
30. Would you rather toast with flat champagne or toast with warm beer?
31. Would you rather wake up on New Year's Day with a headache and great stories or wake up fresh having missed all of it?
32. Would you rather spend midnight with your in-laws or spend it at your boss's house?
33. Would you rather have your resolutions read aloud at work every Monday or have your screen time read aloud at dinner every Sunday?
34. Would you rather go to the gym every day in January and never again or go once a month for the whole year?
35. Would you rather be stuck in an elevator with a stranger at 11:55 or be stuck in traffic with your whole family at 11:55?
36. Would you rather stay in with takeout and a movie or dress up for a party with a pricey ticket?
37. Would you rather give a toast in front of a hundred people or sing the first verse of Auld Lang Syne alone?
38. Would you rather share a midnight kiss in the rain or share one on a packed dance floor?
39. Would you rather plan next year's vacation tonight or let your partner surprise you with it?
40. Would you rather keep one resolution perfectly or half keep five of them?
41. Would you rather never pay one bill of your choice again or get three extra weeks of vacation every year?
42. Would you rather be the designated driver every New Year's Eve or be the host every New Year's Eve?
43. Would you rather let your partner pick your resolution or let your mother pick it?
44. Would you rather go to the office party with karaoke or work the midnight shift for double pay?
45. Would you rather run into your ex at midnight or run into your dentist on the dance floor?
46. Would you rather slow dance in the kitchen at midnight or watch the fireworks from a rooftop under one blanket?

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 New Year's Eve Would You Rather questions?

Five from this list: Would you rather pick the whole family's resolution or skip one chore for the entire year? Would you rather ring in the new year on the moon or ring it in at the bottom of the sea in a submarine? Would you rather have your year turned into a movie or have it turned into a song everyone knows? Would you rather wake up on New Year's Day with a headache and great stories or wake up fresh having missed all of it? Would you rather never pay one bill of your choice again or get three extra weeks of vacation every year?

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