Would You Rather Questions for Adults: 120 Clean, Clever Dilemmas
One hundred and twenty original dilemmas with two properly balanced alternatives each. They are clean enough for any company, and written for adults — the kind of question a table argues about for longer than it should.
The short answer
Good Would You Rather questions for adults offer two alternatives that are equally tempting or equally awkward, so a group genuinely splits. This page has 120 original, clean questions in three groups — everyday choices, playful hypotheticals and imaginative dilemmas — suitable for dinner parties, family gatherings and work events.
Everyday Would You Rather questions
40 prompts- always arrive twenty minutes earlyoralways arrive exactly on the minute
- give up coffee and tea for a yearorgive up desserts for a year
- have a home that is always tidy but never quite cleanoralways clean but never quite tidy
- cook dinner every nightorwash up every night
- live without musicorlive without films and television
- have a long weekend every weekorhave three months off once a year
- always take the stairsoralways wait for the lift
- read only the first half of every bookorread only the second half
- have a ten-minute commute to a job you tolerateora ninety-minute commute to a job you love
- only ever eat breakfast foodsornever eat breakfast foods again
- own a small house with a big gardenora big house with no garden
- always be slightly too warmoralways be slightly too cold
- have to send every message by voice noteoronly ever by handwritten letter
- have a personal chefora personal driver
- wake up at five every morningornever get to bed before two
- shop only at marketsorshop only online
- have every meal at a table with other peopleorevery meal alone in peace
- host every gatheringornever host again but always bring dessert
- live by the seaorlive in the mountains
- have no dishwasherorhave no washing machine
- know how to fix anything in a houseorknow how to cook anything from memory
- wear the same outfit every dayornever wear the same outfit twice
- always have to plan a month aheadornever be allowed to plan more than a day ahead
- spend a day off entirely outdoorsorentirely at home
- have unlimited train travelorunlimited cinema tickets
- give a speech to a hundred peopleorsing one song to ten people
- have a phone that only makes callsora phone that does everything except make calls
- lose your sense of timeorlose your sense of direction
- always know what to cook for dinneroralways know what to give as a present
- have neighbours who are too friendlyorneighbours you never see
- have a garden full of flowersora garden full of vegetables
- take a holiday with no cameraora holiday with no map
- have only one very comfortable chair in your homeormany slightly uncomfortable ones
- never have to queue againornever have to look for parking again
- eat the same lunch every day for a yearornever eat the same lunch twice in a year
- be the first to arrive at every partyorthe last to leave
- finish every task one day earlyorone hour late
- have a bedroom that is always darkorone that is always quiet
- write with only a pencilortype with only two fingers
- have one long conversation a dayortwenty short ones
Playful hypothetical Would You Rather questions
40 prompts- have a rewind button for your dayora pause button
- be able to talk to animalsorspeak every human language
- have hands for feetorfeet for hands
- always have to skip everywhereoralways have to walk backwards
- have a personal soundtrack that everyone can hearora narrator describing your day aloud
- be able to fly at walking speedorrun at flying speed
- sneeze confettiorhiccup bubbles
- have a tail that shows your moodorears that turn toward whatever you are thinking about
- only be able to whisperoronly be able to shout
- live in a treehouseorlive on a houseboat
- have a pet dragon the size of a catora pet cat the size of a dragon
- never need to sleepornever need to eat
- have every traffic light turn green for youorevery queue move you to the front
- be an average player in every sportoroutstanding at one sport nobody watches
- have a photographic memory for facesorfor names
- be able to breathe underwaterorsee perfectly in the dark
- have a house that cleans itselfora garden that looks after itself
- always know when it will rainoralways know when someone is about to phone
- be ten minutes younger every birthdayorhave two birthdays a year
- find a new door in your home once a yearora new window with a different view
- have your handwriting become beautifuloryour singing voice become beautiful
- be able to taste coloursorhear shapes
- have pockets that are never emptyorshoes that never wear out
- be famous for one dayorunknown but lucky for a year
- shrink to the size of a teacup for an hourorgrow to the height of a house for an hour
- have a robot that cooksora robot that tidies
- be able to stop rain for an hourorsummon a breeze whenever you want
- ride to work on a giant tortoiseorin a hot-air balloon
- always find a seat on public transportoralways find the thing you have lost
- have an extra hour every dayoran extra day every month
- be stuck in a lift with a brass bandorwith a very chatty parrot
- be able to make any plant groworcalm any animal
- have a nose that glows when you fiboreyebrows that wiggle when you are bored
- live in a world with no clocksora world with no mirrors
- be able to jump as high as a houseorhold your breath for an hour
- have every book you read come true for a dayorevery dream be forgotten at once
- be permanently one step ahead in every queueoralways get the best table in a restaurant
- swap lives with your pet for a dayorwith your neighbour for a day
- have a magic fridge that is never emptyora magic wardrobe that always has the right clothes
- get a letter from your past selforfrom your future self
Imaginative Would You Rather dilemmas
40 prompts- visit the deepest part of the oceanorthe far side of the Moon
- live a hundred years in the pastora hundred years in the future
- know the history of every object you touchorthe future of every place you stand
- have one wish granted todayorthree wishes granted in ten years
- be the only person who remembers a wonderful dayorhave everyone remember it except you
- be able to revisit one day of your life as a spectatororpreview one day of your future
- build a city on the sea bedorin the clouds
- discover a new colourora new musical note
- have a library containing every book ever writtenora museum containing one of everything ever made
- lead the first expedition to a new planetorwrite the story of it afterwards
- be the keeper of a lighthouse at the edge of the worldorthe gardener of a secret walled garden
- have a map that shows where you are neededora clock that shows how long things will take
- speak to people from the past for an hourorto people from the future for a minute
- give everyone on Earth one extra hour of restorone perfect meal
- understand how everything worksorunderstand how everyone feels
- live in a village where everyone knows youora city where you can always start again
- spend a year sailing round the worldora year walking across a continent
- keep one season all yearorhave a fifth season that nobody else has seen
- have a door that opens anywhere you have already beenoranywhere you have never been
- be remembered for a single great inventionorfor a thousand small kindnesses
- compose a song that everyone humsorwrite a sentence that everyone quotes
- restore one lost buildingorone extinct animal
- have perfect recall of everything you readoreverything you hear
- find a message in a bottleorsend one and know it was found
- spend a night in an ancient forestorin an empty museum
- be able to pause a perfect moment for an hourorreplay it once a year
- design a new festival for the whole worldora new game the whole world plays
- always be able to find your way homeoralways be able to find something new
- have every stranger greet you as an old friendorevery old friend surprise you like a stranger
- trade one talent you have for one you wantorkeep your talents and double one of them
- own a telescope that sees any placeora radio that hears any time
- plant a forest you will never see grownorfinish a building somebody else began
- live where it is always early morningoralways early evening
- know every language but be unable to writeorwrite every language but speak only one
- teach the world one skillorlearn one skill from everyone you meet
- have an island of your ownora train carriage of your own that goes anywhere
- keep a diary that writes itselforan album that photographs your best moments
- solve one great mystery of the pastorbe told one about the future
- be given a year to do anythingoran hour to ask anyone anything
- arrive at the end of every journey refreshedorenjoy every minute of the way there
How to play with these questions
Read a question aloud, twice. Everyone decides silently, then reveals their choice at the same moment — one finger for the first alternative, two for the second. Then go round the table for one-sentence reasons. The full Would You Rather rules include an example round, a scoring variation and a version for thirty people.
In host mode, the deck shuffles all 120 questions with no repeats and lets you choose a single group.
On paper, print the question cards and let each guest draw one to read.
For a big room, use the hands-up version: left hand for the first alternative, right hand for the second.
What makes a good Would You Rather question
A weak question has an obvious answer — everyone picks the same side and the round is over in five seconds. A strong one divides the room and makes people defend themselves. Every question here was written to pass three checks:
- Two complete alternatives. Both halves are fully stated, so nobody has to ask what the other option means.
- Real balance. Each alternative has a clear attraction and a clear cost. “A ten-minute commute to a job you tolerate, or a ninety-minute commute to a job you love” has no safe answer.
- Room to argue the edges. The best questions have a detail that people start testing: exactly on the minute? Every queue?
Everything is clean. There is nothing crude, nothing about relationships or bodies, and nothing that makes fun of any group of people — which means you can use the whole pack with colleagues, in-laws or a mixed-age family without reading ahead.
Which group to start with
| Group | Tone | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Everyday choices | Practical, relatable | Openers, new acquaintances, work events |
| Playful hypotheticals | Silly, quick | Family gatherings, mixed ages, raising energy |
| Imaginative dilemmas | Thoughtful, slower | Late in the evening, close friends, long dinners |
Start with everyday choices. They need no imagination, so even the most reluctant guest has an answer. Move to playful hypotheticals once people are laughing, and save the imaginative dilemmas for when the table is ready for longer answers — “be remembered for a single great invention, or for a thousand small kindnesses” can fill ten minutes on its own.
Three ways to get more from each question
- Predict the room. Before the reveal, everyone guesses which side will win. It shows how well the group knows each other.
- Convince me. The minority gets thirty seconds to win converts.
- Add a condition. After the vote, the reader adds one twist — “…but it lasts only a year” — and people may change sides.
Seasonal questions
For themed parties, our holiday supplements add twelve questions each: Halloween Would You Rather (a haunted library or a haunted lighthouse?) and Christmas Would You Rather (decorate the tree, or wrap all the presents?).
For other easy openers, see icebreaker games for adults and our icebreaker questions.
Quick answers
What are good Would You Rather questions for adults?
Good questions give adults a real dilemma: “Would you rather always arrive twenty minutes early, or always exactly on the minute?”, “Would you rather have a rewind button for your day, or a pause button?” Both options should be tempting, clean and open to argument.
What are clean Would You Rather questions for work or family?
Stick to everyday choices and harmless hypotheticals — commutes, food, travel, small superpowers. All 120 questions on this page are clean and avoid relationships, bodies, politics and religion, so they are suitable for colleagues and for mixed-age family gatherings.
How do you play Would You Rather with a large group?
Read the question and ask everyone to raise a left hand for the first alternative or a right hand for the second. Then invite two or three volunteers from each side to explain. The whole room answers every question, and it works for thirty or more.
How many Would You Rather questions do you need?
Eight to ten questions fill about twenty minutes at a table of six. With 120 questions in this pack and no repeats in host mode, a group can play many times before seeing the same question again.
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Would You Rather Questions for Adults
120 original, clean Would You Rather questions in three groups. Every question offers two complete alternatives.