Would You Rather Questions for Adults

Would you rather questions for adults about real life

These would you rather questions for adults skip the superpowers and ask about the things grown ups actually weigh up: commutes, rent, chores, careers, travel and how to spend a free weekend. There are 56 of them, each one picked at random when you press Next. They are clean, so you can read them out at a work party or a family barbecue without a second look.

Three examples:

• “Would you rather never check email again or never attend another meeting?”
• “Would you rather have free groceries for life or free travel for life?”
• “Would you rather host every holiday or never host a holiday again?”

What the adult set covers

The cards fall into a few rough themes:

• Work and careers: pay, bosses, commutes and four day weeks.
• Home life: chores, house size, hosting and neighbors.
• Money and time: what you would trade for more of either.
• Travel and free time: beach or mountains, long trips or long weekends.

None of them need special knowledge to answer, and none of them get too personal, so people who just met can play together.

How to use it

1. Open the page on your phone or laptop.
2. Read the question to the group.
3. Everyone picks, then one or two people explain in a sentence.
4. Press Next (or the space bar or right arrow) for the next card.

Previous takes you back one card, and the “Seen so far” list shows every question you have used tonight. Start over reshuffles everything.

Ways to play

Dinner party round

Pass the phone clockwise. Each person reads a card and the table votes with a show of hands. The reader has to go last, so they cannot sway anyone.

Group chat poll

Copy a card with the copy button, paste it into your friends’ chat and ask for 1 or 2. It revives a quiet chat better than a meme.

Keep score

Before each vote, everyone guesses the majority answer. One point per correct guess. After ten cards, the low scorer buys the next round of coffee.

Coworker edition

Pick the cards about meetings, offices and bosses for a team lunch. They are easy for people who do not know each other well.

Good places to use these

• House parties while people are still arriving.
• Office holiday parties and team lunches.
• Group chats that have gone quiet.
• Long car rides with friends.
• Book clubs after the book talk runs out.

Random order

The deck is shuffled with your browser’s cryptographic random generator. Every question in the set appears once before any repeats. It is free and runs in your browser, with no sign up.

More grown up question games

For quick two word picks on similar topics, try the this or that questions for adults. For open conversation starters instead of choices, use the random question generator.

Examples from this deck

A few of the 56 questions you can get above:

• Would you rather have a personal chef or a personal driver?
• Would you rather have a big house in the suburbs or a small apartment downtown?
• Would you rather have a personal assistant or a personal trainer?
• Would you rather own a cozy cabin in the woods or a beach house?
• Would you rather go back to college or start a new career?
• Would you rather have a perfectly clean house or a perfectly organized calendar?
• Would you rather live in a different country or a different decade?
• Would you rather take a road trip across the country or a cruise around the world?
• Would you rather plan a big party or just show up to one?
• Would you rather have a dishwasher that loads itself or a closet that folds your clothes?
• Would you rather spend a day at a spa or a day at an amusement park?
• Would you rather go to a reunion with old classmates or old coworkers?