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 die from falling off a cliff or by being threatened.

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