Would you rather?
From Teampedia
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
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?
- Would you rather spend your last night alive going out to dinner with your closest friends, or have it with your favorite movie star?
- Would you rather have to spend the next year repeating the fourth grade (at your current age), or spend a month in jail for a crime you did not commit?
- Would you rather have a third leg or a third arm?
- Would you rather live as a dog or live as a cat?
- would you rather live as a lion or live as a tiger?
Directions
Take turns answering the questions and if time allows have participants come up with their own questions.
Alternatives
Have everyone answer secretly and show the tally. (Example 2 said... and 3 said...) Then try to guess who answered which way.
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
