Would You Rather Questions: 130 to Get Everyone Talking

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Would you rather questions offer two choices and ask which you'd pick. Here are 130 clean ones for adults, from silly to deep, plus how to play in a chat and turn each answer into a proper natter.

How do you play would you rather in a chat?

It's about the easiest game there is: no scores, no winners, just two options and a reason.

One person asks a question, from this page or their own.
The other picks one and says why. The reason is the good bit.
The asker answers it too, so nobody's out on a limb alone.
Swap, and whoever just answered asks the next one.

In private messages, take turns at your own pace. In a busy chat room, drop a question in and let whoever fancies it answer. Want something quicker? This or that questions skip the reasons altogether.

Three house rules that keep it fun

Pick one, even if you hate both. Say why. Then ask one back.

Sitting on the fence spoils it, so "neither" is off the table, unless whoever says it tells a story instead.

Funny would you rather questions

Start here: daft questions take the pressure off.

Would you rather hiccup whenever you laugh or sneeze whenever someone says your name?
Would you rather have a laugh track after every joke you make or a gasp after every secret you tell?
Would you rather a seagull stole a chip from every meal or a pigeon followed you to work?
Would you rather have a sports commentator narrate your day or a nature presenter whisper about it?
Would you rather speak in rhyme for a day or end every sentence with "or so they say"?
Would you rather walk everywhere backwards for a week or wear flippers to every appointment?
Would you rather have a shadow that waves at strangers or a reflection that's always a second behind?
Would you rather be followed for a day by a brass band or a mime who copies you?
Would you rather lose every game of rock, paper, scissors or never win a coin toss again?
Would you rather every door you open creaked or your shoes squeaked on every step?
Would you rather share a stuck lift with a knock-knock joke fan or a tuneless hummer?
Would you rather dance whenever you hear music or freeze like a statue whenever someone claps?
Would you rather sound like you've breathed in helium forever or hear everything you say echo?
Would you rather autocorrect turned every fifth word into "sausage" or every message arrived twice?
Would you rather have your selfies shown at a wedding or your shower singing played at work?
Would you rather wear a suit of armour to the supermarket or a ball gown to the gym?

Would you rather questions about food and travel

Everyone has opinions about chips and holidays.

Food

Would you rather give up cheese for good or anything with garlic in it?
Would you rather have a full English for every meal or never have one again?
Would you rather every meal was slightly too salty or slightly too cold?
Would you rather eat everything with chopsticks for a year or everything with a teaspoon?
Would you rather have a chef cook for you every night or never wash up again?
Would you rather eat the same perfect sandwich daily or risk a mystery lunch?
Would you rather your bread always went stale a day early or your milk always went off a day early?
Would you rather eat every meal as a picnic or at a long banquet table?
Would you rather lose the ability to taste sweet things or spicy things?
Would you rather eat a whole lemon in one go or a spoonful of hot mustard?
Would you rather have a roast with no gravy or chips with no salt and vinegar?
Would you rather be a baker who can't cook or a cook who burns every cake?
Would you rather only have warm drinks for a year or only cold ones?
Would you rather cook for a month with only a microwave or only a camping stove?

Travel

Would you rather cross a continent by sleeper train or fly somewhere you've never heard of?
Would you rather have a paid-for holiday you can't choose or a shoestring one you plan yourself?
Would you rather travel for a fortnight with no phone or come home with no photos?
Would you rather spend a week in a lighthouse or a week on a houseboat?
Would you rather see the northern lights or a total eclipse of the sun?
Would you rather only ever holiday somewhere hot or only ever somewhere snowy?
Would you rather learn the language before every trip or get by on pointing and smiling?
Would you rather always get a window seat or never wait at baggage reclaim again?
Would you rather camp in the rain or stay in a smart hotel beside a building site?
Would you rather travel by hot air balloon or by canal boat on your next trip?
Would you rather visit every capital city in a year or spend that year on one island?
Would you rather have a guide who never stops talking or no guide and a paper map?
Would you rather road trip with three friends in a tiny car or travel alone in first class?
Would you rather lose your luggage on the way out or your passport on the way home?

How do you turn an answer into a real conversation?

The question is only the warm-up. What you do with the answer decides whether you get one word back or a proper natter. Three easy moves:

Ask about the reason. "Why that one?" or "Has that ever actually happened to you?" turns a choice into a story.
Push it one step further. Add a twist: what if the pigeon could talk, or the holiday started tomorrow?
Give your own pick honestly. Disagreeing is half the fun, as long as it stays playful.

Here's a made-up example of how a round might go:

Go on: a seagull nicking your chips, or a pigeon following you to work?
Pigeon. At least it'd be company on the bus.
Fair. Would you give it a name?
Obviously. Gerald. He'd have a little commuter face.
Gerald sounds like he'd judge your lunch.
He would. Right, your turn, and no saying neither.

One silly question, and now there's a running joke about Gerald. For more ways to keep things flowing, see how to keep a conversation going.

Everyday dilemmas and blasts from the past

Small choices from ordinary life, then some for anyone who remembers rewinding tapes with a pencil.

Everyday dilemmas

Would you rather always arrive far too early or flustered but just on time?
Would you rather your phone never ran out of battery or your umbrella never blew inside out?
Would you rather do all the ironing forever or clean all the windows forever?
Would you rather have noisy neighbours or neighbours who stop you for a chat every morning?
Would you rather always get the slowest queue or always get the wobbly trolley?
Would you rather reply to every message within a minute or only once a day?
Would you rather work four long days a week or five short ones?
Would you rather have a lie-in every morning or an extra hour of daylight every evening?
Would you rather never sit in traffic again or never wait in for a delivery again?
Would you rather lose your keys once a week or your phone once a month?
Would you rather have a spotless home or a perfectly organised inbox?
Would you rather always know when the bus will come or always get a seat on the train?
Would you rather wear odd socks forever or never find the end of the sticky tape again?
Would you rather wait on hold an hour with lovely music or ten minutes with awful music?
Would you rather do your weekly shop at midnight or at seven on a Saturday morning?

Nostalgic would you rather questions

Would you rather go back to paying for every text or to dial-up internet?
Would you rather make a mixtape on cassette again or fill a photo album by hand?
Would you rather rewind every rented film or wait a week to get your photos developed?
Would you rather bring back phone boxes on every corner or the milkman on every street?
Would you rather use only a paper map for a year or memorise every phone number again?
Would you rather live without streaming or without online shopping?
Would you rather relive your first big night out or the first holiday you paid for yourself?
Would you rather hear music from just one decade or nothing older than a year?
Would you rather bring back one decade's fashion for good or ban one forever?
Would you rather wait a week between episodes or months for films to come out on video?
Would you rather keep a paper diary again or send a postcard from every trip?
Would you rather share a hallway phone with your household or one family computer?
Would you rather go to a roller disco every Friday or a village fete every Saturday?

Would you rather questions about superpowers and what ifs

Pure imagination, no wrong answers.

Would you rather pause time for ten minutes a day or rewind it ten seconds whenever you like?
Would you rather know what your pet really thinks of you or what your neighbours do?
Would you rather teleport anywhere once a week or run as fast as a train every day?
Would you rather always spot a fib or always be believed?
Would you rather make plants grow in seconds or mend anything with a touch?
Would you rather breathe underwater on holiday or see in the dark at home?
Would you rather have a perfect memory or a perfect sense of direction?
Would you rather shrink to mouse size or grow as tall as a house, once a day?
Would you rather control your town's weather or every traffic light on your way to work?
Would you rather never feel cold again or never feel tired again?
Would you rather have an undo button for awkward moments or a mute button for loud people?
Would you rather read any book in a minute or play any instrument after one lesson?
Would you rather know how every film ends before it starts or how every argument ends?
Would you rather be invisible, but only when nobody's looking, or fly, but only a metre off the ground?
Would you rather swap jobs with your boss for a day or a zookeeper for a week?

Would you rather questions for couples and crushes

Sweet, a little flirty and completely clean. In a brand-new chat, keep it light; the flirting guides have more on reading the mood.

Would you rather get a handwritten note from your crush or a playlist they made for you?
Would you rather have a first date picnic in the park or dinner somewhere candlelit?
Would you rather have a partner who's a brilliant cook or a brilliant listener?
Would you rather send the first message or be the one who gets it?
Would you rather your love story started with a spilled drink or a wrong number?
Would you rather plan every date yourself or always be surprised?
Would you rather be serenaded in public or slow dance in the kitchen?
Would you rather your crush laughed at your jokes or remembered every little thing you said?
Would you rather see each other twice a week or chat daily but meet once a fortnight?
Would you rather hold hands everywhere you go or share a private joke nobody else gets?
Would you rather date someone who sings badly and loudly or dances badly and often?
Would you rather be set up by your best mate or meet someone by chance?
Would you rather get flowers for no reason or breakfast in bed for no reason?
Would you rather fall for someone over a long chat or at first sight across a room?
Would you rather share an umbrella in a downpour or a blanket at a bonfire?

Deep would you rather questions

Save these for a quieter chat, answer honestly yourself, and let a pass be a pass.

Would you rather have one friend who'd do anything for you or ten who'd do a little?
Would you rather be world-class at one thing nobody's heard of or decent at everything?
Would you rather relive your happiest day once more or glimpse a happy day still to come?
Would you rather always say exactly what you think or never say anything you'd regret?
Would you rather be famous for something you did or quietly loved by everyone who knows you?
Would you rather have an extra day every week or an extra ten years at the end?
Would you rather know the truth even when it hurts or stay happy not knowing?
Would you rather find it easy to forgive or easy to forget?
Would you rather give your younger self one piece of advice or get one from your older self?
Would you rather live somewhere beautiful and remote or ordinary but near everyone you love?
Would you rather take a big risk and possibly fail or play it safe and always wonder?
Would you rather be the friend who always listens or the friend everyone listens to?
Would you rather lose every photo or every message from the last ten years?
Would you rather love a job that pays little or tolerate one that pays well?

Would you rather questions for a group chat room

Written for a crowd, so anyone can answer in a line.

Would you rather the whole room typed in capitals for an hour or without vowels?
Would you rather host a dinner party for this room or take it on a coach trip?
Would you rather let the room pick your next haircut or your next holiday?
Would you rather be this room's official joke teller or its agony aunt?
Would you rather tell the room about your worst holiday or your best ever bargain?
Would you rather everyone here described their day in three words or in one emoji?
Would you rather share a campsite with everyone here or a very small lift?
Would you rather be in charge of the music at this room's party or the snacks?
Would you rather this room's mascot was a grumpy goose or an overexcited goat?
Would you rather be quizzed on general knowledge or on everything you've said in here tonight?
Would you rather everyone ended messages with a weather report or a compliment for the person above?
Would you rather always answer first in here or always get the last word?
Would you rather swap fridges with someone in here for a week or swap wardrobes?
Would you rather let the next person to answer choose your breakfast or your next night-out outfit?

Natter's chat rooms are for adults, 18+, and admins keep an eye on them, so play nicely and let anyone skip a question. For a longer game, try 21 questions.

Would you rather: questions people ask

What is a would you rather question?

Two options, tempting, odd or tricky, and you pick one. The fun is in the reason, so always say why.

What are good would you rather questions for adults?

Ones about grown-up life: work, food, travel, relationships and what you value. Every one on this page is clean enough for a busy room.

Can you answer neither?

It's more fun if you don't: the funniest answers come from picking between two awful options.

How do you play would you rather over text?

Take turns: send one, they pick and explain, you answer it too, then they send one back. Leave room for the story before the next question.

Is a would you rather question a good first message?

It can be, especially a light one from the funny or food lists. Add a line about their profile so it feels written for them, and browse the questions collection for other games.

Would You Rather Scroll or Chat?

Easy one. Make a profile, find a room and try your favourite question on someone new.

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