Would you rather questions: spin for a random one
Every would you rather question has the same shape: two options, both a little tempting or both a little awful, and you have to take one. The would you rather wheel above starts with 24 of the best, and the set buttons swap in lists for kids, teens, couples, winter and more, over 200 questions in all.
Press Spin or tap the wheel and the pointer settles on one. Think of it as a would you rather button that never runs dry. The slices only have room for the first few words, so the full question appears in the result panel once the wheel stops. A cryptographic random draw inside your browser chooses the question before the wheel moves, so whoever reads it aloud cannot steer the game toward the ones they want to answer.
Best would you rather questions
The best would you rather questions are close calls. Pizza or burgers forever splits a room; a million dollars or a paper cut does not, and a question everyone answers the same way is over in two seconds. The default list is made of close calls that work for almost any group: fly or be invisible, a rewind button or a pause button for your life, summer all year or fall all year.
Before adding your own, say it out loud and try to argue both sides. If one side needs no defending, rewrite the weaker option until it does.
Would you rather questions for kids
Would you rather for kids works best when both answers are concrete and a bit ridiculous. Young players answer faster about things they can picture, a pet dinosaur or a pet dragon, a treehouse or a castle, than about trade-offs like money against time. The Kids set keeps every question clean enough for a classroom or a long car ride.
With younger children the answer is the easy part, so ask why afterward. The reason is where a six-year-old’s imagination shows up, and it turns a one-word answer into a two-minute story.
Would you rather questions for teens and middle school
Middle school and high school players want questions that touch their actual lives: phones, followers, school dances, a first job, a first car. The Teens set leans on those. A million followers or 10 real best friends. Parents who chaperone every dance or parents who check your phone every night. The stakes feel real without anyone having to confess anything.
Running it with a class or a youth group, keep an easy exit: anyone can pass on a question without giving a reason, and the next spin moves the game along.
Funny would you rather questions
Funny would you rather questions swap the dilemma for a picture nobody can unsee. Sneeze glitter or burp bubbles. Spaghetti for hair or sweat maple syrup. One horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses, the internet classic that still starts arguments about tactics. They are the fun would you rather questions to open a night with, because answering reveals nothing personal.
The laugh usually comes from the defense rather than the question, so make whoever answers explain their plan. Why the duck? How does a person sweating syrup get through airport security?
Hard and deep would you rather questions
Hard would you rather questions leave no joke option to hide behind. More time or more money. A job you love that pays little or one you hate that pays well. Loved by everyone or truly understood by one person. Deep questions like these can fill an evening, so one spin per round is plenty.
They land best among people who already know each other, or late in the night once the silly rounds have loosened everyone up. The follow-up often beats the original: would you still choose that at 60?
Crazy and weird would you rather questions
Crazy would you rather questions bend the laws of the world instead of the rules of your life. Teleport, but only 10 feet at a time, or fly, but only at walking speed. Taste colors or hear smells. Turn into a cat every full moon or a goldfish every Tuesday.
Weird and extreme questions reward the people who like to argue the fine print. When someone asks whether the goldfish still has to go to work on Wednesday, the question is doing its job.
Would you rather questions for couples
Would you rather questions for couples make an easy date-night conversation, and this set stays clean on purpose. A road trip or a beach vacation. Relive your first date or skip ahead to your 50th anniversary. Cook together every night or order takeout every night. The answers reveal plans and habits that a direct question rarely gets at.
Take turns spinning, and have each person guess the other’s answer before hearing it. A wrong guess tends to start the best conversation of the night.
How to play the would you rather game
Explaining how to play would you rather takes one sentence: someone reads the question, everyone picks one of the two options, and nobody may choose neither. With the wheel, spin, read the result aloud, then go around the circle or have everyone point left for the first option and right for the second at the same moment. With “Remove the winner after each spin” checked, a question drops off the wheel once it has been asked, so a long game never repeats.
Mix in your own by typing each question on a new line, up to 1,000. Clear empties the list and Shuffle reorders it. A line entered twice gets a slice twice as big, which is how to make a favorite come up more often. The Winter set suits snow days and holiday parties, and the Classroom set is built for the first week of school.
Every list on the Would You Rather Wheel
These are the lists behind the buttons above the entry list, written out in full, so you can read one before you spin it or copy the lines you want into your own wheel.
Best
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- Fly or be invisible?
- Have a rewind button or a pause button for your life?
- Live without air conditioning or without Wi-Fi?
- Always be 10 minutes late or always 20 minutes early?
- Read minds or see 10 seconds into the future?
- Give up pizza forever or give up burgers forever?
- Speak every language or play every instrument?
- Be famous or be best friends with someone famous?
- Have summer all year or fall all year?
- Never use your phone again or never watch TV again?
- Be the funniest person in the room or the smartest?
- Explore the deep ocean or outer space?
- Eat only sweet food or only salty food?
- Win the lottery or live twice as long?
- Have a personal chef or a personal driver?
- Meet your great-great-grandparents or your great-great-grandkids?
- Be a famous athlete or a famous musician?
- Live in a big city or on a quiet farm?
- Get unlimited free flights or unlimited free groceries?
- Lose your sense of taste or your sense of smell?
- Never sit in traffic again or never catch a cold again?
- Have a photographic memory or forget anything you choose?
- Talk to animals or be able to breathe underwater?
- Know every answer to trivia night or win every board game?
Kids
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- Have a pet dinosaur or a pet dragon?
- Eat ice cream for every meal or pizza for every meal?
- Be a superhero or a wizard?
- Live in a treehouse or a castle?
- Have a slide or a trampoline in your bedroom?
- Fly like a bird or swim like a dolphin?
- Talk to your dog or talk to aliens?
- Have summer vacation all year or a snow day every week?
- Be as tall as a giraffe or as small as a mouse?
- Have a robot that does your homework or one that cleans your room?
- Be the fastest kid at recess or the best at video games?
- Ride a unicorn or ride a whale?
- Go to school on the moon or under the ocean?
- Get a lifetime supply of candy or of toys?
- Be a pirate or an astronaut?
- Have a pet that can talk or a pet that can fly?
- Live in a gingerbread house or a giant snow fort?
- Have eyes in the back of your head or super long arms?
- Never have to go to bed or never have to take a bath?
- Be a famous inventor or a famous chef?
- Visit every zoo in America or every theme park in America?
- Have a cookie that never runs out or a juice box that never empties?
- Shrink to the size of a toy or grow as big as your house?
- Have a bedroom full of bubbles or a bedroom full of balloons?
Teens
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- Have 1 million followers or 10 real best friends?
- Lose your phone for a month or lose your voice for a month?
- Get your driver’s license tomorrow or $5,000 on your 18th birthday?
- Never have homework again or always know the answers on tests?
- Be the star quarterback or the lead in the school musical?
- Only hear one song forever or never hear your favorite song again?
- Have your search history made public or your texts read aloud in class?
- Go to a school with a four-day week or a school with no homework?
- Know every answer in math class or every lyric to every song?
- Have a summer job at a theme park or at an ice cream shop?
- Be the funniest kid in class or the one everyone trusts?
- Start high school over or skip straight to college?
- Go viral for something embarrassing or never go viral at all?
- Have your parents chaperone every dance or check your phone every night?
- Get unlimited gas money or unlimited food money?
- Be the oldest sibling or the youngest?
- Only wear sweatpants to school or only wear a suit?
- Eat cafeteria food every day or pack the same lunch every day?
- Have a locker that never jams or Wi-Fi that never drops?
- Win the spelling bee or the science fair?
- Be class president or captain of your favorite team?
- Have no curfew or no chores?
- Text only in emojis or only in full sentences with perfect grammar?
- Go to prom with your best friend or skip it for a concert?
Funny
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- Have spaghetti for hair or sweat maple syrup?
- Sneeze glitter or burp bubbles?
- Talk like a pirate or like a sports announcer all day?
- Sing instead of talk or dance instead of walk?
- Have a squeaky voice or a voice that echoes?
- Wear clown shoes every day or a clown nose every day?
- Have hiccups for a year or sneeze every five minutes?
- Be chased by a goose or by a very determined squirrel?
- Always smell like garlic or always smell like wet dog?
- Have a laugh track follow you or dramatic music play when you walk in?
- Only be able to whisper or only be able to shout?
- Walk everywhere backward or skip everywhere?
- Grow a tail or grow antlers?
- Use a rubber chicken as a phone or a banana as a TV remote?
- Be a talking potato or a dancing carrot?
- Wear a wet sock or a sandy swimsuit all day?
- Say everything in rhyme or say everything backward?
- Have a nose that honks when you laugh or ears that wiggle when you fib?
- Eat a spoonful of mayonnaise or a spoonful of mustard?
- Fight one horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses?
- Have a permanent unibrow or a permanent milk mustache?
- Live in a bouncy castle or a ball pit?
- Accidentally call your teacher “Mom” or wave back at someone waving behind you?
- Have a pet penguin that follows you everywhere or a llama that spits at strangers?
Hard & deep
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- Relive your best day once or forget your worst day forever?
- Have more time or more money?
- Be loved by everyone or truly understood by one person?
- Have a job you love that pays little or a job you hate that pays well?
- Be able to change the past or see the future?
- Lose all your old memories or never make new ones?
- Know every truth about the universe or stay happily unaware?
- Always tell the truth or always be told the truth?
- Have one true friend or many casual friends?
- Give up the internet or give up travel for the rest of your life?
- Live a short life full of adventure or a long, quiet one?
- Be the most talented person in a small town or average in a big city?
- Know what everyone really thinks of you or never know?
- Restart at age 10 knowing what you know now or keep going as you are?
- End hunger or end war?
- Be a genius nobody listens to or an average person everyone listens to?
- Find true love or find your true purpose?
- Live without music or without movies?
- Get one wish now or three wishes in 20 years?
- Read one person’s mind or keep your own mind hidden from everyone?
- Be remembered for one big mistake or not remembered at all?
- Have the answer to one question you choose or never wonder about anything again?
- Be respected or be liked?
- Keep every friend you have now or make a new best friend every year?
Crazy & weird
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- Have a third arm or a third eye?
- Live on Mars or at the bottom of the ocean?
- Shrink to the size of an ant for a day or grow as tall as a skyscraper?
- Teleport only 10 feet at a time or fly only at walking speed?
- Swap bodies with your pet for a week or with your teacher for a week?
- Have a head the size of a tennis ball or of a watermelon?
- Eat a cricket or hold a tarantula?
- Have X-ray vision you can’t turn off or super hearing you can’t turn off?
- Taste colors or hear smells?
- Be stuck inside a video game or inside a cartoon?
- Wake up as a dinosaur or wake up 200 years in the future?
- Live in a world with no gravity or a world with no night?
- Only eat food that’s blue or only eat food that’s round?
- Have a clone that does your chores or a time machine you can use once?
- Have feet for hands or hands for feet?
- Turn into a cat every full moon or a goldfish every Tuesday?
- Talk to plants or control the weather in one room?
- Have skin that changes color with your mood or hair that grows an inch a minute?
- Live inside your favorite movie or inside your favorite book?
- Breathe fire or shoot water from your fingertips?
- Meet a friendly alien or a friendly ghost?
- Speak only in questions or only in movie quotes?
- Have a pocket that makes one random object a day or a door that opens somewhere new?
- Glow in the dark or be see-through in daylight?
Couples
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- Have a romantic dinner at home or a fancy night out?
- Take a road trip together or a beach vacation?
- Always pick the movie or always pick the restaurant?
- Cook together every night or order takeout every night?
- Relive your first date or skip ahead to your 50th anniversary?
- Get a dog together or a cat together?
- Have breakfast in bed or a surprise picnic?
- Share one dessert or each get your own?
- Travel the world for a year or buy your dream house?
- Have a partner who is a great cook or a great dancer?
- Spend a weekend camping or a weekend at a hotel spa?
- Get handwritten love letters or surprise gifts?
- Watch the sunrise together or stay up to watch the stars?
- Have a big wedding or elope?
- Live in the mountains or by the ocean?
- Plan every date or be surprised by every date?
- Binge a whole series in one night or watch one episode a week together?
- Take a couples dance class or a couples cooking class?
- Wear matching Halloween costumes every year or matching holiday sweaters?
- Slow dance in the kitchen or sing together in the car?
Winter
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- Build a snowman or have a snowball fight?
- Drink hot cocoa or apple cider?
- Go sledding or go ice skating?
- Live where it snows all winter or where it never snows?
- Spend winter break at a ski lodge or on a warm beach?
- Wear mittens forever or gloves forever?
- Shovel the driveway or scrape the windshield every morning?
- Have a white Christmas or a warm, sunny one?
- Be snowed in at a cabin or at the mall?
- Top your hot cocoa with marshmallows or whipped cream?
- Get a snow day or a two-hour delay?
- Go ice fishing or go snowshoeing?
- Wear a giant puffy coat or be a little cold all winter?
- Watch holiday movies all December or never see one again?
- Have a fireplace or heated floors?
- Make snow angels or build an igloo?
- Get a stocking full of candy canes or gingerbread cookies?
- Spend New Year’s Eve in Times Square or at home in pajamas?
- Have winter last six months or skip winter entirely?
- Have a snowball that never melts or a mug of cocoa that never cools?
Classroom
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- Be the teacher for a day or the principal for a day?
- Have a longer recess or a shorter school day?
- Take a field trip to a museum or to a farm?
- Do a project alone or with a group?
- Learn to play an instrument or learn a new language?
- Have class outside or in a room full of beanbags?
- Read the book or watch the movie version?
- Write with a pencil or type on a laptop?
- Be great at math or great at art?
- Meet a president from the past or a scientist from the future?
- Have a class hamster or a class fish?
- Give a speech to the class or write a five-page paper?
- Visit the Grand Canyon or the Statue of Liberty?
- Win a trophy or win a gift card?
- Speed-read any book or remember everything you read?
- Put on a school play or a school talent show?
- Do homework right after school or right before bed?
- Be the line leader or the door holder?
- Have a pizza party or an ice cream party?
- Build a robot or plant a garden?
Frequently asked questions
How do you play would you rather?
One person asks a question with two options, and everyone else has to pick one and say why. There are no points and no winner; the fun is in the defense. Here the wheel does the asking, so whoever wrote the list gets to play too.
What are some good would you rather questions?
Good ones split a group roughly in half. Three that reliably do: a rewind button or a pause button for your life, no air conditioning or no Wi-Fi, and the funniest person in the room or the smartest. The default wheel is built from questions like these.
What are good would you rather questions for kids?
Questions about animals, food, superpowers and places they can picture. Try a pet dinosaur or a pet dragon, ice cream for every meal or pizza for every meal, or school on the moon or under the ocean. Tap the Kids set to load 24 of them.
What are some would you rather winter questions?
Snow, cold and holidays give plenty to work with: build a snowman or have a snowball fight, a snow day or a two-hour delay, winter break at a ski lodge or on a warm beach. The Winter set holds 20 of them, for December classrooms and holiday parties alike.
What makes a would you rather question hard?
Both options cost something you care about, and neither one is a joke. Money against time, being loved against being understood, the past against the future. If you can defend either side for a full minute, it is hard enough.
Is this would you rather game free to play online?
Yes. There is no account, no download and no limit on spins. The questions you type never leave your browser, although Google Analytics does count visits and how the page is used, tied to a pseudonymous cookie ID.
Can I add my own questions?
Yes. Type each one on its own line in the list, and the wheel redraws as you type. A long question gets cut short on its slice, and the complete wording turns up in the result panel when the spin ends.