Hard Would You Rather Questions

Impossible would you rather choices

Both options are good, or both are terrible. Pick anyway.

1. 1.Would you rather rewind ten seconds once a day or pause time for ten seconds once a day?
2. 2.Would you rather always say what you're thinking or never speak again?
3. 3.Would you rather delete every app on your phone or delete every contact on your phone?
4. 4.Would you rather be famous but lonely or be unknown but surrounded by friends?
5. 5.Would you rather speak every language or play every instrument?
6. 6.Would you rather relive the same day for a year or skip a year of your life?
7. 7.Would you rather always be ten minutes late or always be thirty minutes early?
8. 8.Would you rather give up music or give up movies?
9. 9.Would you rather always have to speak in questions or always have to speak in rhymes?
10. 10.Would you rather never feel cold again or never feel too warm again?
11. 11.Would you rather forget your favorite memory or relive your worst day once?
12. 12.Would you rather lose your sense of taste or lose your sense of smell?
13. 13.Would you rather know how every movie ends before you watch it or never remember how a movie ended?
14. 14.Would you rather be the best listener you know or be the best storyteller you know?
15. 15.Would you rather have unlimited time or have unlimited money?
16. 16.Would you rather live without the internet or live without heating and air conditioning?
17. 17.Would you rather tell one small lie every day or never be able to lie again?
18. 18.Would you rather sit on a long flight with no entertainment or sit in traffic for six hours?
19. 19.Would you rather give up your phone for a year or give up your favorite food forever?
20. 20.Would you rather have everyone hear your thoughts for a day or hear everyone's thoughts for a day?

Hard would you rather questions about life

The ones that start long conversations.

1. 21.Would you rather have a calm life or have an exciting life?
2. 22.Would you rather go back and change one decision or see how one decision would have turned out?
3. 23.Would you rather get an honest review of your life once a year or never get feedback again?
4. 24.Would you rather stay your current age for ten years or jump ahead ten years?
5. 25.Would you rather start over in a new city with nothing or stay where you are with everything you know?
6. 26.Would you rather meet your younger self or meet your older self?
7. 27.Would you rather have one best friend for life or have a big circle of good friends?
8. 28.Would you rather be great at one thing or be good at everything?
9. 29.Would you rather always know the right thing to say or always know the right thing to do?
10. 30.Would you rather remember everything you read or remember everything you hear?
11. 31.Would you rather spend a year traveling on your own or spend a year at home with everyone you love?
12. 32.Would you rather have more free time or have more energy?
13. 33.Would you rather be remembered for one big thing or be loved for many small things?
14. 34.Would you rather never have to sleep or never have to eat?
15. 35.Would you rather do work you love for less money or do work you don't love for a lot more?
16. 36.Would you rather get a do-over on one day or get one extra day every year?
17. 37.Would you rather slow down time when you're happy or speed it up when you're bored?
18. 38.Would you rather know your purpose right now or discover it slowly?
19. 39.Would you rather live in the past or live in the future?
20. 40.Would you rather make one big change today or make a small change every day?

Hard would you rather questions about money and work

Paychecks, bosses and the four-day week.

1. 41.Would you rather earn a little more than you need or earn far more than you need but work twice as much?
2. 42.Would you rather be your own boss or have a great boss?
3. 43.Would you rather have a four-day work week or get two months off every summer?
4. 44.Would you rather win a million dollars today or get five thousand dollars a month for the rest of your life?
5. 45.Would you rather have a job that changes the world or have a job that changes your life?
6. 46.Would you rather work alone with total freedom or work on a great team with strict rules?
7. 47.Would you rather be famous in your field or be rich and unknown?
8. 48.Would you rather get paid in experiences or get paid in cash?
9. 49.Would you rather retire at forty or love your job until seventy?
10. 50.Would you rather live close to work in a small home or live far from work in a big home?
11. 51.Would you rather never have another meeting or never answer another email?
12. 52.Would you rather change jobs every year or keep the same job for twenty years?
13. 53.Would you rather get a raise or get an extra week of vacation?
14. 54.Would you rather invent something everyone uses or write a book everyone reads?
15. 55.Would you rather run a small coffee shop or run a big company?
16. 56.Would you rather get a free house or get free travel for life?
17. 57.Would you rather work with someone who's always late or work with someone who's always loud?
18. 58.Would you rather never pay rent again or never pay for groceries again?
19. 59.Would you rather spend your savings on one big dream or keep saving for a rainy day?
20. 60.Would you rather have a job you can explain in one word or have a job nobody understands?

Would you rather questions about powers with a catch

Every superpower comes with fine print.

1. 61.Would you rather fly, but only as fast as you can walk or run very fast, but only backwards?
2. 62.Would you rather be invisible, but only when nobody is looking or read minds, but only animals' minds?
3. 63.Would you rather teleport, but always arrive five minutes late or time travel, but only to Tuesdays?
4. 64.Would you rather talk to animals, but they're all rude or talk to plants, but they only complain?
5. 65.Would you rather be super strong, but only before breakfast or be super smart, but only after midnight?
6. 66.Would you rather breathe underwater, but only in pools or see in the dark, but only with one eye?
7. 67.Would you rather never get tired, but always be hungry or never get hungry, but always be sleepy?
8. 68.Would you rather stop time, but you still get older while it's stopped or rewind time, but forget that you did?
9. 69.Would you rather have perfect luck at games or have perfect luck finding parking?
10. 70.Would you rather know every answer on a test or know every word of every song?
11. 71.Would you rather shrink to the size of a mouse whenever you want or grow to the size of a giraffe whenever you want?
12. 72.Would you rather control the weather, but only in your yard or control traffic lights, but only on your street?
13. 73.Would you rather speak every language with a very strong accent or speak one language perfectly?
14. 74.Would you rather walk through walls, but only once a day or open any lock, but only by singing to it?
15. 75.Would you rather heal others, but not yourself or heal yourself, but not others?
16. 76.Would you rather see one minute into the future or see one minute into the past of anything you touch?
17. 77.Would you rather copy any skill you watch, but forget it the next day or learn one skill perfectly forever?
18. 78.Would you rather never need a phone charger or never need a car key?
19. 79.Would you rather turn anything into chocolate or turn anything into gold that's too heavy to move?
20. 80.Would you rather fly, but only in the rain or be invisible, but only in the snow?

Hard would you rather questions about everyday life

Small things that turn out to be big decisions.

1. 81.Would you rather eat the same breakfast forever or never eat the same dinner twice?
2. 82.Would you rather only eat food that's cold or only eat food that's hot?
3. 83.Would you rather give up bread or give up cheese?
4. 84.Would you rather always have a pebble in your shoe or always have a tag scratching your neck?
5. 85.Would you rather never use a microwave again or never use an oven again?
6. 86.Would you rather have every song stuck in your head or never remember a song again?
7. 87.Would you rather always have slightly wet socks or always wear a slightly itchy sweater?
8. 88.Would you rather eat only soup or eat only sandwiches?
9. 89.Would you rather lose your keys every day or lose your phone once a week?
10. 90.Would you rather have perfect hair every day or have perfect sleep every night?
11. 91.Would you rather never wait in a line again or never sit in traffic again?
12. 92.Would you rather give up dessert or give up snacks?
13. 93.Would you rather always know what time it is or always know which way is north?
14. 94.Would you rather have a personal chef or have a personal driver?
15. 95.Would you rather eat your favorite meal every day or try a new meal every day?
16. 96.Would you rather give up music in the car or give up podcasts?
17. 97.Would you rather wake up at five every morning or go to bed at three every night?
18. 98.Would you rather have slow internet forever or have a cracked phone screen forever?
19. 99.Would you rather only shop online or only shop in stores?
20. 100.Would you rather never have to do laundry or never have to do dishes?

How to play with hard questions

Hard questions work best when people have to defend their pick. Read a card out loud, count to three, and everyone points left for the first option or right for the second. Then the smaller side gets thirty seconds to change a few minds.

Play the whole list right here on one phone, or read it out loud on a call. The full rules and scoring ideas are on the would you rather page.

House rules for a good debate

The best rounds turn into friendly arguments. A few rules keep them friendly:

• No changing the question. The catch is part of the deal.
• Everyone gets one reason, and only one.
• If the room splits exactly in half, the reader breaks the tie.
• Keep score of who changed the most minds. That person picks the next group.

Impossible and Powers are the loudest groups. Life and Money & work start slower, deeper conversations, so they're good for a quieter table or a long drive. Everyday sits in between: small choices that somehow get the most passionate answers.

More questions to keep going

When the group wants something lighter, switch to funny would you rather questions, or try this or that for quick picks with no explaining. For a group of friends, most likely to is another easy favorite.

Hard questions also make a good warm-up for a bigger game night. Play five cards while everyone arrives, then move on to something louder like Imposter or charades once the whole group is in the room.

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