Crazy would you rather questions
These crazy would you rather questions put two wild ideas side by side and ask you to pick one: a superpower with a silly catch, a world where the rules of nature are slightly off, a job that cannot exist, a day spent as an animal. There are 50 of them, numbered so a group can read one out and call a number later.
Nothing here is risky or scary. The craziness comes from the idea, not from anyone getting hurt or embarrassed. Press 1 or 2 in the game above, and the deck will not repeat a card until you have seen every one.
Each pair is balanced so the room should split instead of agreeing right away. When it does, ask one person from each side to defend their pick in a single sentence.
- Would you rather have Earth get rings like Saturn or have the Moon look twice as big every night?
- Would you rather have every yawn shrink you to the size of a mouse for a minute or have every laugh make you a foot taller for a minute?
- Would you rather live on a planet where one day lasts a whole month or live on a planet where one year lasts a single week?
- Would you rather swap bodies with a house cat for a day or swap bodies with a giraffe at the zoo for a day?
- Would you rather work as a cloud sculptor who shapes clouds into animals or work as a rainbow painter who touches up faded colors?
- Would you rather live in a world where gravity takes Sunday afternoons off or live in a world where everything bounces like a rubber ball?
- Would you rather have shoes that give you directions out loud or have a jacket that tells you the weather before you step outside?
- Would you rather relive the same Saturday over and over until you can juggle or relive the same Monday over and over until you bake a perfect cake?
- Would you rather live in a dollhouse-sized town where you are the giant or live in a giant-sized town where you are the size of a doll?
- Would you rather have super strength, but only when lifting things that are blue or have perfect night vision, but only while wearing mismatched socks?
- Would you rather live for a year inside a giant snow globe or live for a year on a floating island that drifts around the world?
- Would you rather see every sound as a floating colored bubble or see every smell as a drifting puff of colored mist?
- Would you rather be the person who switches on the stars every night or be the person who rolls the Sun up into the sky every morning?
- Would you rather wake up as a snail carrying a tiny mansion on your back or wake up as a hummingbird that needs a snack every ten minutes?
- Would you rather have a bed that floats you to a new country while you sleep or have a bedroom window that looks out on a different planet each night?
- Would you rather be stuck in a time loop of your best birthday ever for a month or be stuck in a time loop of a lazy beach day for a month?
- Would you rather carry a pocket-sized elephant that grows full size when you need a ride or carry a pocket-sized whale that grows full size when you want a swim?
- Would you rather be able to fly, but only while flapping your arms like a chicken or be able to run straight up walls, but only while humming a tune?
- Would you rather commute every day through an underwater city on a seahorse or commute every day across a city in the clouds on a giant kite?
- Would you rather swim through the air as if it were a pool or walk across lakes as if they were sidewalks?
- Would you rather deliver the mail in a village of friendly giants or deliver the mail in a village of tiny forest elves?
- Would you rather puff up like a pufferfish whenever you are surprised or change color like a chameleon whenever you are embarrassed?
- Would you rather live in a house where the furniture argues about where it should go or live in a house where the walls hum along to whatever you play?
- Would you rather live every day twice, with the second run as a do-over or live every day once, with six extra hours added to it?
- Would you rather have a backpack that is as big as a gym on the inside or have a tent that unfolds into a ten-room mansion?
- Would you rather be able to talk to houseplants, but they only want to talk about sunlight or be able to talk to clouds, but they only answer in weather?
- Would you rather live on a planet with three suns and no nighttime or live on a planet with no sun where every plant glows?
- Would you rather be the referee for a soccer game between octopuses or be the coach of a basketball team made of penguins?
- Would you rather have everything you drop fall up instead of down or have everything you throw come back to you like a boomerang?
- Would you rather be a whale who can sing to friends across the whole ocean or be an owl who can turn its head almost all the way around?
- Would you rather have a front door that opens onto a different beach each morning or have a garden hose that sprays any weather you want?
- Would you rather get a rewind button that only works on spilled food or get a fast-forward button that only works on waiting in line?
- Would you rather make any snack ten times bigger with a snap of your fingers or finish any chore in ten seconds with a clap of your hands?
- Would you rather make it snow anywhere you like, but only indoors or make it sunny anywhere you like, but only at midnight?
- Would you rather live in a glass dome on Mars with two moons in your sky or live in a treehouse on a planet where the trees are a mile tall?
- Would you rather run a hotel where every guest is an alien on vacation or run a diner on the sea floor where the regulars are sea turtles?
- Would you rather live in a house where every room is upside down or live in a house where every room slowly spins like a carousel?
- Would you rather get the bounce of a kangaroo for a week or get the grip of a gecko for a week?
- Would you rather have an umbrella that turns into a hot air balloon or have a skateboard that turns into a submarine?
- Would you rather celebrate your birthday on the same date every single month or celebrate your birthday once a year for a whole week straight?
- Would you rather stretch your arms like taffy to reach anything in the room or flatten yourself like paper to slide under any door?
- Would you rather vacation on a planet where the oceans are sparkling lemonade or vacation on a planet where the beaches are soft brown sugar?
- Would you rather design dreams for people while they sleep or cook up tomorrow's weather in a giant kitchen?
- Would you rather live in a town where rain falls up from the puddles or live in a town where snow falls in every color of the rainbow?
- Would you rather spend a week as a sea otter in a kelp forest or spend a week as a squirrel in a big city park?
- Would you rather grow any plant to full size in one second, but it always turns purple or make any object float, but only while you keep whistling?
- Would you rather live in a coral reef house with a manatee for a roommate or live in an iceberg house with a walrus for a roommate?
- Would you rather be a lifeguard at a pool filled with wobbly gelatin or be a librarian at a library where the books fly around?
- Would you rather have a clone who does all your chores but hums off-key the whole time or have a clone who runs all your errands but always buys the wrong groceries?
- Would you rather test-drive flying cars for a living or taste-test candy invented on other planets for a living?
Extreme would you rather questions, kept clean
The word extreme can mean two things. It can mean imaginative: the biggest, strangest, most impossible choice you can dream up. Or it can mean shocking, the kind of card that makes a group uncomfortable. This page is the first kind only. Here, extreme means a scale you could never reach in real life: an elephant that fits in your pocket, a day that lasts a month, a power with a ridiculous catch.
That is also why the questions are safe to read at a family table or in a classroom. A parent can read over a shoulder, a teacher can project the screen, and nobody has to skip a card to protect a younger player. We leave out the dark and spicy kind on purpose, because those cards only work with a very particular crowd and spoil the game for everyone else. If you want a grown-up round without anything racy, try the questions for adults.
To escalate a round, start with a small, silly card, then move to bigger and stranger ones each turn. Raise the stakes with a follow-up: what if it lasted a whole year, or what if your best friend picked the other side? You can also play it as a ladder, where each player has to defend a pick against the one before.
Pairing with funny keeps the energy up. Alternate a crazy card with one from the funny questions so the room can laugh between the big ones. For tougher dilemmas, the hard questions make a good next step.
Frequently asked questions
What are crazy would you rather questions?
Crazy would you rather questions are two-choice dilemmas built on wild, impossible ideas, such as odd superpowers, strange planets and unusual jobs. You pick a side and explain why. The craziness comes from imagination, so they stay playful and suit most ages. They work well as icebreakers, car-ride games and party rounds.
What are some diabolical would you rather questions?
Diabolical would you rather questions make both answers a little evil to choose, so nobody escapes clean. The crazy deck above is full of them: strange curses, impossible trade-offs and powers with a terrible catch. They push the imagination hard, but they stay family-friendly.
Are the crazy questions family-friendly?
Yes. Every crazy question here is written to be clean and friendly: nothing violent, scary, rude or grown-up, and no real people. The extreme part is the imagination, not the subject. You know your group best, so if a card does not suit it, press Skip and move on.