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Dilemmas for the Thanksgiving table: turkey or sides, hosting or traveling, and who does the dishes.

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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 eat only mashed potatoes all day or eat only pumpkin pie all day?
2. Would you rather carve the turkey with the whole family watching or give the toast with the whole family recording?
3. Would you rather have gravy come out of every faucet in your house or have cranberry sauce for toothpaste?
4. Would you rather hold the rope of a giant parade balloon or ride a parade float and wave for three hours?
5. Would you rather have a pet turkey that follows you to school or have a pet pumpkin that grows bigger every day?
6. Would you rather wear a pilgrim hat to school for a week or gobble like a turkey every time you say hello?
7. Would you rather eat dinner with only a giant serving spoon or eat dinner with only a toothpick?
8. Would you rather wash every dish by hand after dinner or peel potatoes for 30 people before it?
9. Would you rather find out at noon that the turkey is still frozen or find out at noon that the oven is broken?
10. Would you rather host Thanksgiving for 25 people or drive eight hours to someone else's?
11. Would you rather sit next to the uncle with an opinion on everything or sit next to the aunt who asks about your love life?
12. Would you rather be stuck in holiday traffic for five hours or be stuck in an airport for five hours?
13. Would you rather have leftovers every day for a month or have one perfect plate and no leftovers at all?
14. Would you rather swim in a pool of gravy or roll down a hill of mashed potatoes?
15. Would you rather bring the dessert everyone fights over or bring the side dish everyone wants the recipe for?
16. 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?
17. Would you rather have every food on your plate touching or eat your foods one at a time in alphabetical order?
18. Would you rather watch football all day without a nap or nap all day without any football?
19. Would you rather be the one who cooks everything or be the one who cleans everything?
20. Would you rather eat two full dinners in one day to keep both families happy or skip both and order takeout on the couch?
21. Would you rather serve a turkey that's a little dry or serve gravy that's a little lumpy?
22. Would you rather eat only the orange foods or eat only the white foods?
23. Would you rather be in charge of the turkey for the first time or be in charge of keeping the toddlers out of the kitchen?
24. Would you rather have a food fight with dinner rolls or have a food fight with whipped cream?
25. Would you rather sleep on an air mattress that slowly goes flat or sleep on a couch that's a foot too short?
26. Would you rather share one bathroom with nine relatives all weekend or share a bed with a cousin who kicks?
27. Would you rather win the wishbone every year or get the last slice of pie every year?
28. Would you rather explain your job to your grandparents again or fix the settings on their TV remote again?
29. Would you rather wear stretchy pants to a fancy dinner or wear a fancy outfit to an all-you-can-eat buffet?
30. Would you rather have a talking turkey for a best friend or have a flying pie that delivers itself to your room?
31. Would you rather jump in the biggest leaf pile ever raked or float down a river in a giant pumpkin?
32. Would you rather do the grocery run the night before Thanksgiving or get up at 4 a.m. to put the turkey in?
33. Would you rather go to a Friendsgiving where everyone brought chips or go to one where everyone brought dessert?
34. Would you rather bring a store-bought pie and admit it or bring a homemade pie that went wrong?
35. Would you rather have marshmallows on everything on your plate or have gravy on everything, even the pie?
36. Would you rather play touch football in the yard with your cousins or play board games inside next to the pie?
37. Would you rather play the turkey in the school play or play the ear of corn with one line?
38. Would you rather eat Thanksgiving dinner at a restaurant with no dishes to wash or eat at home and keep all the leftovers?
39. Would you rather have your in-laws stay for a full week or drive back and forth to see them four days in a row?
40. Would you rather drop the turkey on the floor with nobody watching or drop the pie with everybody watching?
41. Would you rather hear the same family story for the tenth time or be the embarrassing story this year?
42. Would you rather eat a leftover sandwich the size of your head or eat a slice of pie the size of your plate?
43. Would you rather run a 5K on Thanksgiving morning or rake the whole yard before the guests arrive?
44. Would you rather go shopping at 5 a.m. on Black Friday or sleep until noon and miss every deal?
45. Would you rather cook the whole dinner with your partner in a tiny kitchen or wash dishes together for two hours after?
46. 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 Thanksgiving Would You Rather questions?

Five from this list: Would you rather hold the rope of a giant parade balloon or ride a parade float and wave for three hours? Would you rather have leftovers every day for a month or have one perfect plate and no leftovers at all? Would you rather eat only the orange foods or eat only the white foods? Would you rather jump in the biggest leaf pile ever raked or float down a river in a giant pumpkin? Would you rather hear the same family story for the tenth time or be the embarrassing story this year?

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