Would you rather questions

Dilemmas with no easy answer — which is the point.

A good Would You Rather has no right answer and forces you to defend the one you picked. A bad one is obvious in two seconds.

These are grouped by who you are playing with, because the dilemma that splits a group of friends is not the one that splits a family dinner.

Classic dilemmas

  1. 1Would you rather always be 10 minutes late or always be 20 minutes early?
  2. 2Would you rather lose all your memories or lose all your money?
  3. 3Would you rather be able to fly or be able to turn invisible?
  4. 4Would you rather have no phone for a month or have no internet for a month?
  5. 5Would you rather only eat sweet food forever or only eat savoury food forever?
  6. 6Would you rather know when you will die or know how you will die?
  7. 7Would you rather be the funniest person in the room or be the smartest person in the room?
  8. 8Would you rather never sleep again or sleep 12 hours every day forever?
  9. 9Would you rather have unlimited money but no friends or have amazing friends but always be broke?
  10. 10Would you rather be able to speak every language or be able to play every instrument?
  11. 11Would you rather live 100 years in mediocre health or live 50 years in perfect health?
  12. 12Would you rather always say what you think or never say what you think?
  13. 13Would you rather time travel to the past or time travel to the future?
  14. 14Would you rather be famous but hated or be unknown but loved?
  15. 15Would you rather always feel cold or always feel hot?
  16. 16Would you rather never be able to use a lift again or never be able to use stairs again?
  17. 17Would you rather read minds but never switch it off or never know what anyone thinks of you?
  18. 18Would you rather lose your sense of taste or lose your sense of smell?
  19. 19Would you rather have every song stuck in your head for a day or never be able to listen to music again?
  20. 20Would you rather always have to tell the truth or always be believed even when lying?
  21. 21Would you rather be able to teleport anywhere once a day or be able to pause time for one minute a day?
  22. 22Would you rather have a rewind button for your life or have a fast-forward button for your life?
  23. 23Would you rather never need to eat again or never need to sleep again?
  24. 24Would you rather be the best in the world at something nobody cares about or be mediocre at something everyone admires?
  25. 25Would you rather have your search history made public or have your bank balance made public?
  26. 26Would you rather live without a fridge or live without a washing machine?
  27. 27Would you rather always know the exact time or always know exactly how far away something is?
  28. 28Would you rather be able to talk to animals or be able to speak to anyone who has ever lived?
  29. 29Would you rather never feel physical pain or never feel embarrassment?
  30. 30Would you rather have one wish granted today or have three wishes granted in ten years?
  31. 31Would you rather lose every photo you have ever taken or lose every message you have ever sent?
  32. 32Would you rather be stuck on a six-hour flight with no screen or be stuck in a two-hour traffic jam every single day?
  33. 33Would you rather always have to sit in the middle seat or always have to check in a bag?
  34. 34Would you rather be able to undo one decision or be able to see the result of one decision before you make it?
  35. 35Would you rather have a personal chef or have a personal driver?
  36. 36Would you rather never be able to lie or never be able to say no?
  37. 37Would you rather have everyone forget your name or have everyone forget your face?
  38. 38Would you rather be 20 minutes early everywhere for life or have an extra hour every night that nobody else gets?
  39. 39Would you rather win a holiday you cannot choose or choose a holiday you have to pay for?
  40. 40Would you rather always have a slow phone or always have slow internet?
  41. 41Would you rather be able to remember everything or be able to forget anything you choose?
  42. 42Would you rather have a job you love that pays badly or have a job you tolerate that pays brilliantly?
  43. 43Would you rather live somewhere it rains every day or live somewhere it is 40 degrees every day?
  44. 44Would you rather be the oldest in every room or be the youngest in every room?
  45. 45Would you rather never leave your city again or never be able to return to it?

For family

  1. 1Would you rather sit through every family function for a year or explain your job to every relative once a week?
  2. 2Would you rather only eat your mother's cooking forever or only eat restaurant food forever?
  3. 3Would you rather live with your in-laws or live 5,000 km from everyone you know?
  4. 4Would you rather have unlimited chai but no coffee or have unlimited coffee but no chai?
  5. 5Would you rather attend every wedding you are invited to or never be invited to another one?
  6. 6Would you rather always have to answer 'when are you getting married?' or always have to answer 'how much do you earn?'?
  7. 7Would you rather give up biryani forever or give up all street food forever?
  8. 8Would you rather be the family photographer at every function or be the family driver at every function?
  9. 9Would you rather have the fastest WiFi but no AC or have the coldest AC but 2G internet?
  10. 10Would you rather win an argument with your father or win an argument with your mother?
  11. 11Would you rather be famous in your entire building or be completely unknown to your neighbours?
  12. 12Would you rather have to touch everyone's feet at every function or have to sing in front of everyone at every function?
  13. 13Would you rather never eat mangoes again or never eat sweets again?
  14. 14Would you rather share a room with your cousins for a month or share your phone with your family for a week?
  15. 15Would you rather always be the one asked to fix the WiFi or always be the one asked to make the tea?
  16. 16Would you rather sit in the front seat and be given directions or sit in the back with four cousins?
  17. 17Would you rather only ever eat with your hands or only ever eat with a fork?
  18. 18Would you rather have your marksheet read out at a function or have your salary read out at a function?
  19. 19Would you rather be the first to arrive at every wedding or be the last to leave every wedding?
  20. 20Would you rather give up rice forever or give up roti forever?
  21. 21Would you rather have a power cut every evening or have no water every morning?
  22. 22Would you rather be in charge of the sangeet choreography or be in charge of the gift table?
  23. 23Would you rather explain cricket to someone who has never watched it or explain your job to someone who refuses to understand it?
  24. 24Would you rather have every relative visit at once or have to visit every relative one by one?
  25. 25Would you rather be the one who always takes the group photo or be the one never in a single group photo?
  26. 26Would you rather live above a sweet shop or live above a chai stall?
  27. 27Would you rather always have to answer the landline or always have to answer the doorbell?
  28. 28Would you rather never eat paneer again or never eat chicken again?
  29. 29Would you rather have a mehendi that lasts a year or have a haircut you hate for a year?
  30. 30Would you rather be stuck in a lift with your boss or be stuck in a lift with your mother-in-law?
  31. 31Would you rather travel unreserved for twelve hours or wait eight hours at the station for a seat?
  32. 32Would you rather have your mother approve every outfit or have your friends approve every life decision?
  33. 33Would you rather be the family's unpaid tech support or be the family's unpaid wedding planner?
  34. 34Would you rather only ever drink chai with too much sugar or only ever drink chai with no sugar?
  35. 35Would you rather eat the same tiffin every day for a year or never know what is in your tiffin?

For work

  1. 1Would you rather work four ten-hour days or work five six-hour days?
  2. 2Would you rather have every meeting be a video call or have every meeting be in person?
  3. 3Would you rather never attend another meeting or never send another email?
  4. 4Would you rather have a boss who micromanages or have a boss who never replies?
  5. 5Would you rather sit next to a loud typer or sit next to a loud phone talker?
  6. 6Would you rather always be 10 minutes late to standup or always be the first one on the call?
  7. 7Would you rather do a presentation with no slides or do a presentation with 90 slides?
  8. 8Would you rather have unlimited leave but no raise or have a big raise but no leave?
  9. 9Would you rather work from a beach with bad WiFi or work from an office with perfect WiFi?
  10. 10Would you rather know everyone's salary or have everyone know yours?
  11. 11Would you rather be the smartest person on the team or be on a team of people smarter than you?
  12. 12Would you rather have your camera stuck on or have your mic stuck on?
  13. 13Would you rather have a two-hour commute and leave on time or work from home and never finish before nine?
  14. 14Would you rather report to someone you do not respect or manage someone who does not respect you?
  15. 15Would you rather have your inbox cleared but lose every saved file or keep every file and never see the bottom of your inbox?
  16. 16Would you rather be the only one who knows how the system works or be the only one who does not?
  17. 17Would you rather give feedback nobody acts on or get feedback nobody explains?
  18. 18Would you rather have an open-plan office or have no office and work from cafes?
  19. 19Would you rather take a pay cut for a four-day week or keep the pay and work Saturdays?
  20. 20Would you rather be the person who always runs the retro or be the person who always writes the notes?
  21. 21Would you rather have every decision made in a meeting or have every decision made in a thread you were not on?
  22. 22Would you rather train your own replacement or inherit a project nobody documented?
  23. 23Would you rather have a title with no authority or have authority with no title?
  24. 24Would you rather never take leave but finish at four every day or take two months off and be unreachable the rest of the year?
  25. 25Would you rather present to the whole company or present to just your boss's boss?

Play Would You Rather instead

Play Would You Rather online to see how the room actually voted — that is the half a list cannot give you.