Would you rather…
There’s a group chat about you
You just left the room
Your search history goes public
You weren’t invited
Everyone forgot your birthday
Your name came up at dinner
You see your name in their phone
You’re awful in the group photo
You’ve lost track of the story
They ask how you know each other
Read them out, one by one
Play would you rather online, free, right here: ten hard choices, and a goose reads your verdict at the end. Or take the 583 questions below, for friends, couples, work and the whole table.
How to play would you rather
The rules
One person reads a question out. Everyone picks a side at the same moment, by pointing or on three, so nobody can copy. Nobody may say “neither”. Then the smallest side has to defend itself in one sentence each.
What you need
Nothing but people. It works with two on a walk and with twenty around a table. With more than eight, split into teams and let each team argue for one side. A round of ten takes about as long as a coffee.
Four ways to play it
Hot seat: one person answers every card and the room guesses first. Last one standing: anyone in the minority sits out until one person is left. Defend the other side: argue for the answer you didn’t pick. Write your own: each person writes one card for the person on their left.
On one phone
Tap a side on the card at the top of this page to start. Read each card out, everyone points at once, and tap the side most of you picked.
Alone
Ten cards, from a warm-up to the big one. Tap a side, watch the goose react, and at the end find out what the goose makes of you.
How the verdict works
The goose reads your ten answers and gives you a title. Neither side is right. The last card counts most: it can turn a careful round around, or the other way.
Start here: the goose’s picks
Play would you rather online, free, right here: ten hard choices, and a goose reads your verdict at the end. Or take the 583 questions below, for friends, couples, work and the whole table.
What makes a good would you rather question
A good one costs you something on both sides. If one answer is obviously better, it’s a poll, and nobody needs to talk about it.
The strongest ones are about you, not about superpowers. “Read the group chat about you, or never find out what it says” lands before you’ve finished reading, because you’ve already pictured the chat.
Keep it short enough to say out loud in one breath, make the two sides the same size, and leave a gap for the argument. To write your own, start with something you’d never admit, then add a price to the safe option. The cards in our game all follow one rule: both sides cost you something.
Play with the whole table
One phone is enough: read each card out, everyone points at once, and tap the side most of you picked. In the app, Read the Room gives everyone their own phone.
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