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60 questions to ask someone you have just met, sorted by how much effort they take to answer.

Five seconds to answer, nothing personal.

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What were you doing right before this?

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How to use a question well

  1. Ask one at a time. Three questions in a row reads like a form.
  2. Answer it yourself. A question with no answer attached asks them to do all the work.
  3. Follow the answer. When a reply surprises you, ask about it instead of drawing another.

All 60 questions

Icebreakers

Five seconds to answer, nothing personal.

  1. What were you doing right before this?
  2. Is it morning, afternoon or the middle of the night where you are?
  3. What is the last thing you ate, and was it worth it?
  4. What song has been stuck in your head this week?
  5. Good day or long day so far?
  6. What are you supposed to be doing right now instead of this?
  7. Tea, coffee or neither?
  8. What is the last thing that made you laugh out loud?
  9. What is your go-to way to waste an hour?
  10. What is the weather doing outside your window?
  11. What is the best thing you have watched lately?
  12. If today had a title, what would it be?

Funny

Low stakes. The worse the answer, the better.

  1. What is the most useless talent you have?
  2. What food do you defend that everyone else hates?
  3. What is the worst haircut you have ever had?
  4. What is the strangest thing you believed as a child?
  5. Which animal would be the rudest if it could talk?
  6. What is your most controversial food opinion?
  7. What is the silliest thing you have ever argued about?
  8. What would your villain name be?
  9. What is a smell you secretly like?
  10. What is the most ridiculous thing you have bought online?
  11. If you were a ghost, who would you haunt first, and how?
  12. What word do you always spell wrong?

Hypothetical

No right answer, so nobody can get it wrong.

  1. You get an extra hour every day. What do you do with it?
  2. You can be fluent in one new language by tomorrow. Which one?
  3. You can live in any decade for a year. Which do you pick?
  4. You can have dinner with anyone, alive or dead. Who is at the table?
  5. You wake up with one new skill. What is it?
  6. You can only keep three apps on your phone. Which survive?
  7. You are handed a plane ticket to anywhere, leaving tonight. Where to?
  8. You can un-invent one thing. What goes?
  9. You get to rename the planet. What do you call it?
  10. You can ask any animal one question. What do you ask?
  11. You can relive one ordinary day. Which one?
  12. You can know the answer to one mystery. Which?

Deep

For once the chat has warmed up.

  1. What is something you changed your mind about in the last few years?
  2. What is a small thing that makes a bad day better?
  3. What do you wish people asked you about more often?
  4. What is the best advice you ignored?
  5. When do you feel most like yourself?
  6. What is something you are quietly proud of?
  7. What did you want to be at ten, and how close did you get?
  8. What is a compliment you still remember?
  9. What is something you are looking forward to?
  10. What is harder than people think?
  11. What would you tell yourself five years ago?
  12. What is a risk you are glad you took?

Around the world

For when the other person is in another country.

  1. What is a food from your country that everyone should try once?
  2. What is a phrase in your language that does not translate?
  3. What does a normal breakfast look like where you live?
  4. What do visitors always get wrong about your country?
  5. What holiday or festival do you look forward to most?
  6. What is the most beautiful place you have been to in your own country?
  7. What is considered rude where you live that might surprise me?
  8. What is a song from your country I should listen to?
  9. What do people where you live complain about most?
  10. What is the first thing you would show a visitor?
  11. What is a tradition in your family that other people find odd?
  12. What time do people normally eat dinner where you are?

Common questions

One that takes five seconds to answer and cannot be answered with yes or no. “What were you doing right before this?” works better than “how are you?”, because the answer gives you something to ask about next.

Start in Icebreakers and ask one question at a time. Answer it yourself as well, then follow up on what they said before drawing another. Move to Deep only once the replies are getting longer.

Yes. None of them asks for a name, a city, a school or a workplace. The around-the-world questions are about a country and its habits, never an address.

Yes. There is no account and no limit, and it runs in your browser. Nothing you draw or copy is stored.

More ways to keep a chat going

Prefer a game? Try the Would You Rather generator. For openers, read what to say after hi and 50 questions to ask strangers online.