There are different categories of would you rather questions and this list contains some of the very best you can ask anyone. Even though there is value in the answer provided to each of the questions, the greater value lies in why a particular answer is chosen.
Best Would You Rather Questions You can Ask Anyone
- Would you rather have a boring repetitive job that paid $90,000/year or an engaging job that you really enjoy but it pays $45,000/year?
- Would you rather spend a week adrift at sea in a life raft or spend one month in Milwaukee County Jail?
- Would you rather spend the next year exempted from all taxes or have a one month paid vacation?
- Would you rather perform CPR on a random stranger or eat two whole raw habanero peppers?
- Would you rather be riding coach on a trans-continental flight caught between a fighting couple or have a bee sting you on the face?
- Would you rather spend 48 hours under observation in a psychiatric hospital or spend two weeks cleaning the bathrooms at Miami International Airport?
- Would you rather work your current job for the next year at double your current rate of pay or have the next year off at full pay?
- Would you rather get married in an arranged marriage or spending the rest of your life single without dating anyone.
- Would you want to be forever 21 years old physically if it meant that you were also forever 21 financially?
- Would you accept a life as a successful artist making 4 times your current annual pay if it meant that your art was considered offensive by one of the worlds major religions making you unwelcome in many countries and attracting unwelcome, often hostile, attention from people in your own county?
- Would you rather have to leave the country you now live in and be unable to return or spend the rest of your life being unable to make more than minimum wage?
- Would you rather be naked in Antarctica or wear a snowsuit in the desert?
- Would you rather never brush your teeth again or never brush your hair again?
- Would you rather count every grain of sand on a beach or count every drop of water in a lake?
- Would you rather lick a dead frog or eat a maggot?
- Would you rather eat 30 pounds of cheese or 10 full peanut butter jars with no water?
- Would you rather drink a gallon of mayo or ranch?
- Would you rather have an extra mouth or third arm?
- Would you rather be a movie star or singer?
- Would you rather always be hot or always be cold?
- Would you rather have blue skin or purple skin?
- Would you rather always laugh at sad things or always cry at funny things?
- Would you rather be blind or deaf?
- Would you rather only ever be able to watch golf on TV or watch weather reports on TV?
- Would you rather die in a fire or drown?
- Would you rather spend 4 years in jail for something you didn’t do or spend 7 years in jail for something you did do?
- Would you rather watch a movie with pictures but no sound or watch a movie with sound but no pictures?
- Would you rather live without music or without TV?
- Would you rather eat a bar of soap or drink a bottle of dishwashing liquid?
- Would you rather always say what’s on your mind or never speak again?
- Would you rather always be gossiped about or never talked about?
- Would you rather give or get bad advice?
- Would you rather write the worst book ever or record the worst song ever?
- Would you rather have a big group of acquaintances or one close friend?
- Would you rather have super strength or super intelligence?
- Would you rather buy a brand new sports car only to total it the next day or buy a big house only for it to burn down one week later?
- Would you rather have scientists prove that God definitely does exist or find a cure for cancer?
- Would you rather live the rest of your life as the opposite gender or start over again as a little kid?
- Would you rather visit space or the ocean floor?
- Would you rather spend the day at an amusement or water park?
- Would you rather be able to stop time or slow it down?
- Would you rather lose your sense of taste and smell or lose all of your hair?
- Would you rather be extremely attractive or be married to someone who is extremely attractive?
- Would you rather be the star player on a losing basketball team or ride the bench on a winning one?
- Would you rather be ”just friends” with someone you love or marry an attractive person who does not love you?
- Would you rather have one year off at your current rate of pay or work your current job for a year at double your current rate of pay?
- Would you rather win the Nobel Peace Prize or have the $1.2 Million that comes with the prize?
- Would you rather be able to visit 100 years in the past or 100 years in the future?
- Would you rather be rich and fat or poor and skinny?
- Would you rather have a lightsaber or helper monkey?
- Would you rather swallow a small glass shard or a thumbtack?
- Would you rather fail or never try?
- Would you rather go to a six-hour opera or a six-hour ballet recital?
- Would you rather find true love or $1,000,000 dollars?
- Would you rather spend life in prison or be executed?
- Would you rather have a beautiful house and an ugly car or an ugly house and a beautiful car?
- Would you rather meet Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy?
- Would you rather be 3 or 8 feet tall?
- Would you rather have your first child when you are 19 years old or when you are 45 years old?
- Would you rather have the details of your romantic life be made into a hit sit-com or have every one you meet know your personal finances?
- Would you rather spend 48 straight hours in a public restroom or spend the next two month taking only public transportation.
- Would you rather share a toothbrush with a random stranger or kiss your brother/sister on the mouth.
- Would you rather be able to eat anything and any quantity of food with no negative health effects or be refreshed and well rested after only three hours of sleep?
- Would you rather be attacked by a giant snake or an angry piranha?
- Would you rather have your own private jet or private island?
- Would you rather be able to walk through walls or control the weather?
- Would you rather visit Hogwarts or Camp Half-Blood?
- Would you rather eat a handful of hair or lick 3 public telephones?
- Would you rather have a ketchup-dispensing belly button or pencil-sharpening nostrils?
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- Would you rather wake up from sleeping walking in the middle of an extremely busy freeway or on a window ledge 30 stories up?
- Would you rather be buried alive or eaten alive?
- Would you rather save a damsel in distress or take a pot full of gold?
- Would you rather wake up with a different face with the same gender or a different gender with the same face?
- Would you rather be remembered with hatred or forgotten altogether?
- Would you rather age from the neck up only or the neck down only?
- Would you rather have a very droopy eye or a lisp?
- Would you rather eat anything and never get fat or read people’s mind?
- Would you rather tell that special someone you love them and risk losing them or never tell them how you feel and suffer inside?
- Would you rather win a million dollars jackpot or never have to pay for anything ever again?
- Would you rather fly all over the world with your favorite celebrity or be marooned on an island with the one you love?
- Would you rather become a popular celebrity whom everyone hates or be a normal person whom everyone loves?
- Would you rather go about your normal day naked or have smelly breath and body odor for the whole day?
- Would you rather have 3 wishes in 10 years or 1 wish today?
- Would you rather visit the world 100 years into the past or 100 years into the future?
- Would you rather never have sex or never find true love?
- Would you rather get noticed by the hottest chick at a party or have rock-hard abs?
- Would you rather be bitten by a radioactive spider or a vampire?
- Would you rather kiss a jellyfish or step on a crab?
- Would you rather have a beautiful house and an ugly car or an ugly house and a beautiful car?
- Would you rather be invisible or be able to read minds?
- Would you rather get married to the love of your life or be the richest person in the world?
- Would you rather stay up all night to babysit a crying baby or an irritating family member?
- Would you rather jump off a cliff without a parachute or go deep sea diving without oxygen?
- Would you rather stand in the rain to serenade a girl/guy or get drunk and hook up with the hottest girl/guy?
- Would you rather find true love or win 10 million dollars?
- Would you rather be rich and ugly or poor and beautiful?
- Would you rather get caught dancing in front of the mirror or sticking your booger under the table?
- Would you rather dress in designer clothes for a month or get kissed by the hottest girl/guy?
- Would you rather get everything you’ve ever asked for (material things) or find the love of your life?
- Would you rather play video games/go shopping or hang out with your friends?
- Would you rather save the world from an alien invasion or a meteor?
- Would you rather be chased by angry bulls or hungry sharks?
- Would you rather get locked inside an amusement park with a celebrity or your girlfriend/boyfriend?
- Would you rather be with someone who has lots of money or a good heart?
- Would you rather be a character in the movies ‘The Hangover’ or ‘The Holiday’?
- Would you rather live around a noisy neighbor or a nosy neighbor?
- Would you rather date someone who is 10 years younger than you or someone who is 10 years older?
- Would you rather marry someone your parents choose for you or spend the rest of your life single?
- Would you rather not have sex for a year and then, have great sex or have horrible sex for a full year?