Would you rather questions for teens
These would you rather questions for teens are about the things teens actually deal with: school days and homework, phones and group chats, friends, family rules and curfews, driving, first jobs and money, sports and clubs, and what comes after high school. A few are about sleepovers, road trips and music, and a few about crushes, kept light.
Each question gives two options that are both tempting, so there is no obvious answer and a good reason to explain yours. Nothing is rude, scary or mean. Read them aloud in order, or let the game above shuffle the whole set for you with no repeats until every card has been seen. School and phone questions are an easy way in; the driving, money and future ones tend to start longer talks.
- Would you rather start high school over knowing everything you know now or skip straight to graduation day?
- Would you rather get one do-over on your worst school picture or get one do-over on your most awkward class presentation?
- Would you rather always know the answer but be too nervous to raise your hand or always raise your hand first and be wrong half the time?
- Would you rather do homework at the kitchen table while your little brother asks you questions or do homework at the library where you cannot eat a single snack?
- Would you rather have school start at 7 a.m. and end right after lunch or have school start at 10 a.m. and end at dinnertime?
- Would you rather have a teacher who gives a pop quiz every Monday or have a teacher who assigns a five-page paper every month?
- Would you rather have your mom be your substitute teacher for a day or have your dad give a talk about his job at a school assembly?
- Would you rather have your parents follow all your social accounts or have your teachers follow all your social accounts?
- Would you rather have every photo you take come out a little blurry or have every video you record come out with no sound?
- Would you rather accidentally send a voice memo of you singing to the class group chat or accidentally like your crush's photo from three years ago?
- Would you rather have your weekly screen time posted on the fridge or have your most-played song announced to the whole school?
- Would you rather have your phone turn every text you send into all caps or have your phone add a random emoji to the end of every text?
- Would you rather get a phone that only calls and texts until you turn 16 or get a smartphone that locks itself at 9 every night?
- Would you rather go viral for tripping up the bleachers at a game or have only 12 people ever see the video you spent a month making?
- Would you rather have your old middle school posts shown at your graduation or have your parents give a ten-minute speech at your graduation party?
- Would you rather have your ringtone stuck on full volume or have your phone stuck on silent so you miss every call?
- Would you rather give up your phone one weekend every month or give up social media for three months straight?
- Would you rather have your friends pick your yearbook quote or have your parents pick your yearbook quote?
- Would you rather trade lives with your best friend for a week, family included or swap phones with your best friend for a day without deleting anything first?
- Would you rather have a best friend who films everything you do together or have a best friend who refuses to be in a single photo?
- Would you rather sit at a big, loud lunch table where you barely get a word in or sit at a quiet table with the one friend who really gets you?
- Would you rather meet your new best friend on the first day at a new school or keep the same three friends from kindergarten to graduation?
- Would you rather have your friends find your diary from fifth grade or have your friends find the song lyrics you wrote in your notes app?
- Would you rather have a 10 p.m. curfew every night of the week or have no curfew but text your parents every hour you are out?
- Would you rather share a bedroom with your little sibling until you graduate or have your own room but it is the size of a closet?
- Would you rather have your parents start using your slang in public or have your parents dance in the background of every video you post?
- Would you rather make dinner for the whole family every Tuesday or do the whole family's laundry every Sunday?
- Would you rather have your parents sing along loudly to your music while your friends are in the car or have them blast their own music with the windows down in the school drop-off line?
- Would you rather be grounded for a whole month but keep your phone or be grounded for one weekend with no phone at all?
- Would you rather have your parents check your grades online every day or have your parents call your teachers once a month to check in?
- Would you rather get your driver's license a year early or never have to pay for gas until you turn 25?
- Would you rather drive your grandma's giant old station wagon or ride your bike everywhere until you can buy your own car?
- Would you rather take your driving test with your whole family watching from the sidewalk or take your driving test with an instructor who never says a single word?
- Would you rather drive your friends everywhere and never get to sit back and relax or never drive but always get stuck in the middle of the back seat?
- Would you rather have your first car come with a radio stuck on one station or have your first car come with no air conditioning at all?
- Would you rather parallel park perfectly every single time or never hit a red light on the way to school?
- Would you rather work at a movie theater and see every new movie free or work at an ice cream shop and get a free scoop every shift?
- Would you rather spend the summer mowing lawns and keep every dollar or spend the summer as a camp counselor and earn half as much?
- Would you rather get $20 a week for doing nothing or get $60 a week for doing all the family chores?
- Would you rather start a small business selling something you make or work at a local shop with a steady paycheck?
- Would you rather save your whole first paycheck for a car or spend your whole first paycheck on a day out with your friends?
- Would you rather babysit one toddler who never naps or babysit four kids who actually listen to you?
- Would you rather take a gap year to travel after high school or start college a year early?
- Would you rather know right now which college you will get into or know right now what job you will have at 30?
- Would you rather go to a huge college with a famous football team or go to a tiny college where every professor knows your name?
- Would you rather go to college three hours from home or go to college across the country and come home only for holidays?
- Would you rather share a dorm room with someone you have never met or live at home during college and save thousands of dollars?
- Would you rather have your future career picked for you today, and it is a good one or keep figuring it out on your own until you are 25?
- Would you rather get a one-minute video message from yourself at 30 or send a one-minute video message to yourself at 30?
- Would you rather have practice every morning at 5:30 or have practice every night until 8?
- Would you rather play the lead in the school musical or score the winning point at the homecoming game?
- Would you rather join a club where you do not know a single person or join a club only because all your friends did?
- Would you rather be the mascot at every home game or be the announcer at every home game?
- Would you rather run the school's social media account for a year or read the morning announcements every day for a year?
- Would you rather march in the band at every football game or sing in the choir at every holiday concert?
- Would you rather fall asleep first at every sleepover or be the last one awake at every sleepover?
- Would you rather take a family road trip with no phone but pick every stop or take a family road trip with your phone but let your parents pick every stop?
- Would you rather share the back seat with your sibling for ten hours or share a tent with your sibling for a whole weekend?
- Would you rather stop at every weird roadside attraction on the way or drive straight through and get there twice as fast?
- Would you rather have a sleepover where you watch scary movies until sunrise or have a sleepover where you bake something new every hour?
- Would you rather always pick the music on car rides or always pick where your family eats?
- Would you rather listen to only one album for a whole month or hear a song you have never heard every time you press play?
- Would you rather have a song you wrote played at the pep rally or have your voice used for the school bell?
- Would you rather get asked to prom with a huge sign in the cafeteria or get asked to prom with a quiet note in your locker?
- Would you rather have your crush see your baby pictures or have your crush walk in while your mom is fixing your hair?
Would you rather for teens: playing in a group
Would you rather for teens works best with a group, because the fun is in the disagreeing. A few ways to set it up:
Sleepovers and road trips. Put the game on one phone and pass it around, or have one person read each question while everyone answers at once. In a car, the reader should always be a passenger, never the driver.
Youth groups and advisory periods. Press Party mode to fill the screen, then show it on a TV or projector so the question is readable from the back of the room. Turn on Pause after picks, and the card stays up until you press Next, which leaves time to talk it over. Ask everyone to hold up one finger or two, then take a few volunteers to explain. For a class, the questions for students are written for the classroom.
Group chats. Copy a question from the list into the chat and let people answer whenever they like. Print turns the list into cards you can cut apart and draw from a bowl.
Keeping it comfortable. Nobody should feel put on the spot. Let anyone pass, and use Skip to move on without a fuss. Ask for a reason only from people who want to give one, and never use a question to tease someone. With a group that is new to each other, begin with school, music and sports questions and save the crush and family ones for friends who know each other well. If the room wants more laughs, try the funny questions.
Frequently asked questions
Would you rather questions for gen Z?
Yes, and these are written with gen Z in mind: group chats, phones, streaming, first jobs, school and what comes after it, all in everyday words with no dated slang. Every one is clean, so the list works for a youth group or a sleepover. Play them in the game above or read the numbered list.
Would you rather questions 20 questions?
For a quick round of twenty, play the game above and stop when the counter reaches 20 of 65; it never repeats a card. Or read the first twenty from the numbered list. The school and phone questions near the top are an easy start before the ones about money and the future.
What are good would you rather questions for teens?
Good would you rather questions for teens offer two options that are both tempting and come from things teens know well: school, phones, friends, family rules, first jobs and life after high school. The best ones are specific enough to picture and open enough that two friends can disagree. Start with the list above, or play the game and let it pick for you.
Are the teen questions clean?
Yes. Every question is written to be safe for a youth group, a classroom or a sleepover. They are about everyday life, with no adult themes, no scary or gross scenes, no real people and no put-downs. Every question is also printed on this page in order, so you can read ahead before you read one aloud.