Would you rather?

Objectives

• Discover new things about each other, assess how well you really know each other
• Party Games
• Icebreakers/Warmups
• Icebreakers for Online Team Building

Group Size

• Small
• Medium

Materials

• List of questions

Set Up

Come up with a list of Would you Rather Questions or use some of these:

• Would you rather always take a cold shower or sleep an hour less than you need to be fully rested?
• Would you rather always get first dibs or the last laugh?
• Would you rather always have to say everything on your mind or never speak again?
• Would you rather always lose or never play?
• Would you rather always wear earmuffs or a nose plug?
• Would you rather always win pie-eating contests or always win wheelbarrow races?
• Would you rather be 3 feet tall or 8 feet tall?
• Would you rather be 3 feet taller or 3 feet shorter?
• Would you rather be a deep sea diver or an astronaut?
• Would you rather be a dog named Killer or a cat named Fluffy?
• Would you rather be a giant hamster or a tiny rhino?
• Would you rather be a tree or live in a tree?
• Would you rather be able to hear any conversation or take back anything you say?
• Would you rather be able to read everyone’s mind all the time or always know their future?
• Would you rather be able to stop time or fly?
• Would you rather be an unknown minor league basketball player or a famous professional badminton star?
• Would you rather be born with an elephant trunk or a giraffe neck?
• Would you rather be forced to tell your best friend a lie or tell your parents the truth?
• Would you rather be forgotten or hatefully remembered?
• Would you rather be go about your normal day naked or fall asleep for a year?
• Would you rather be gossipped about or never talked about at all?
• Would you rather be hairy all over or completely bald?
• Would you rather be happy for 8hrs/day and poor or sad for 8hr/day and rich?
• Would you rather be invisible or be able to read minds?
• Would you rather be rich and ugly, or Poor and good looking?
• Would you rather be stranded on an island alone or with someone you hate?
• Would you rather be the most popular or the smartest person you know?
• Would you rather be the sand castle or the wave?
• Would you rather eat a bar of soap or drink a bottle of dishwashing liquid?
• Would you rather eat a handful of hair or lick three public telephones?
• Would you rather eat a stick of butter or a gallon of ice cream?
• Would you rather eat a stick of margarine or five tablespoons of hot pepper sauce?
• Would you rather eat poison ivy or a handful of bumblebees?
• Would you rather end hunger or hatred?
• Would you rather find true love or 10 million dollars?
• Would you rather forget who you were or who everyone else was?
• Would you rather get caught singing in the mirror or spying on your crush?
• Would you rather get even or get over it?
• Would you rather give bad advice or take bad advice?
• Would you rather give up your computer or your pet?
• Would you rather go to an amusement park or to a family reunion?
• Would you rather go without television or junk food for the rest of your life?
• Would you rather have a beautiful house and ugly car or an ugly house and beautiful car?
• Would you rather have a kangaroo or koala as your pet?
• Would you rather have a missing finger or have an extra toe?
• Would you rather have one wish granted today or three wishes granted in 10 years?
• Would you rather have x-ray vision or bionic hearing?
• Would you rather invent a cure for cancer or a cure for AIDS?
• Would you rather kiss a jellyfish or step on a crab?
• Would you rather know it all or have it all?
• Would you rather live without music or live without T.V.?
• Would you rather love and not be loved back, or be loved but never love?
• Would you rather make headlines for saving somebody's life or winning a nobel prize?
• Would you rather meet an alien visitor or travel to outer space?
• Would you rather never use the internet again or never watch TV again?
• Would you rather not be able to use your phone or your e-mail?
• Would you rather only be able to whisper or only be able to shout?
• Would you rather own a ski lodge or a surf camp?
• Would you rather publish your diary or make a movie on your most embarrassing moment?
• Would you rather spend the day surfing the internet or the ocean?
• Would you rather sweat moderately but constantly 24 hours a day all over your body or have a metal pin in your jaw that constantly picks up talk radio stations?
• Would you rather sit next to someone on a bus, who looks at you then moves seat, Or have someone in a car look at you, then turn around and lock their door?

Directions

Take turns answering the questions and if time allows have participants come up with their own questions.

Alternatives

If you don't want to come up with your own list, you can find a lot of questions with a Google search for "would you rather" or check out the official site: wouldyourather.com (WARNING: this site is full of adult-themed and often gross scenarios). Or for those of you in the U.K. who say "Would you prefer..." here's an alternate site: woulduprefer.co.uk

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