Questions to ask your friends

The best questions to ask your friends are the ones that start an argument or a story, like "Is cereal a soup?" or "What was your first impression of me, honestly?" Here are 130 of them in seven groups: fun, juicy, weird, dumb but brilliant, about your friendship, for the group chat and for late at night.

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What's a movie you could quote from start to finish?

Group chat questions are written to be pasted straight into a chat. The other groups work best out loud. All 130 are listed below too.

Tap the card to draw a random question, or pick the groups that fit the mood. Read them out at the table or paste one into the group chat and watch what happens.

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130 questions to ask your friends

Open with Fun or Dumb but brilliant, they start debates nobody can stay out of. Juicy and About our friendship need a group that trusts each other, and Late night is for when the room gets quiet.

Fun questions to ask friends

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  1. What's a movie you could quote from start to finish?
  2. If you had to eat at one restaurant for a year, which one?
  3. What's the best thing you've ever found on the street?
  4. What's your most controversial food opinion?
  5. Which of us would survive the longest in a zombie movie?
  6. What's a trend you joined and now pretend you didn't?
  7. If you could be world class at one thing overnight, what would it be?
  8. What's your comfort show, the one you rewatch when life is a lot?
  9. What does your dream Saturday look like, hour by hour?
  10. What's the best gift you've ever received?
  11. Which song should play every time you walk into a room?
  12. If you won a million tomorrow, what's the first silly thing you'd buy?
  13. What's a place that totally lived up to the hype?
  14. Which fictional character are you most like, honestly?
  15. What's a skill you'd love to learn but keep putting off?
  16. If you could swap lives with one of us for a week, who and why?
  17. What's the best meal you've ever had?
  18. What would you name a boat if you owned one?
  19. What's the most fun you've ever had for free?
  20. What's a hill you'll die on that nobody else cares about?

Juicy questions to ask your friends

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For friends who trust each other. Anyone can pass, no questions asked.

  1. Who was your first real crush?
  2. What's a secret you've kept from your parents?
  3. Whose eyes should never see your search history?
  4. What's the most trouble you've ever been in?
  5. What's the biggest lie you've ever got away with?
  6. Who's the last person you looked up online?
  7. Have you ever had a crush on a friend's partner?
  8. What's the most embarrassing text you've sent to the wrong person?
  9. Who was your worst kiss? No names needed.
  10. What's something you've done that you would never post?
  11. Which ex do you still think about, even a little?
  12. Have you ever read someone's messages without them knowing?
  13. What's a rumor about you that was actually true?
  14. What's the pettiest reason you've stopped talking to someone?
  15. What's the most you've spent on something you're embarrassed to admit?
  16. Which of us would you call to help hide a body, and who would snitch?
  17. What's something you said about someone that you hope never gets back to them?
  18. Have you ever pretended to love a gift and then regifted it?
  19. What's the closest you've come to getting caught?
  20. What's your biggest regret from a night out?

Weird questions to ask your friends

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  1. What's something you do that you're sure nobody else does?
  2. If animals could talk, which one would be the most annoying?
  3. Would you rather fight one horse sized duck or a hundred duck sized horses?
  4. What's a smell you secretly love?
  5. If you had to live inside one video game, which one?
  6. What color is your personality?
  7. Do you give your devices or your car a name?
  8. What's the weirdest dream you can remember?
  9. If you were a ghost, which place would you haunt?
  10. What's a completely normal thing that you find creepy?
  11. Which number do you think is the most attractive?
  12. If you had a tail, what would it look like?
  13. What do you think your pet thinks your job is?
  14. What's the strangest thing you've googled at 3 am?
  15. What's a food combination you love that everyone else finds disgusting?
  16. If your fridge could talk, what would it say about you?
  17. If you were a robot, which part would you upgrade first?
  18. What's the weirdest thing you collect, or used to?
  19. If you could only talk in one emoji for a day, which one?
  20. Would you eat a bug for $100? Which bug?

Dumb questions to ask your friends (that start real debates)

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  1. If you could only use one condiment forever, which one?
  2. Is cereal a soup?
  3. How many chickens could you fight at once?
  4. Milk first or cereal first?
  5. Which letter of the alphabet is the best one?
  6. Could you beat a goose in a fight?
  7. If you were a vegetable, which one would you be?
  8. Is water wet?
  9. Which pasta shape is the best, and defend it.
  10. Which day of the week has the worst personality?
  11. Would you rather have spaghetti for hair or sweat maple syrup?
  12. What's the best sound in the world?
  13. If you could add one rule to any sport, what would it be?
  14. Which household object would be scariest if it were ten times bigger?
  15. Do you fold or scrunch toilet paper?
  16. If a cat could say one sentence, what would it say?
  17. How long could you survive locked in a supermarket overnight?
  18. If you had to rename the moon, what would you call it?
  19. Which cartoon sidekick would make the best roommate?
  20. Is a hot dog a sandwich?

Questions about your friendship

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  1. What was your first impression of me, honestly?
  2. When did you know we would actually be friends?
  3. What's your favorite memory of us?
  4. What's something I do that annoys you but you've never said?
  5. Which of my past partners did you secretly not like?
  6. What's one thing you think I'm better at than I believe?
  7. If we met today, would we still be friends?
  8. Which trip do we have to take together before we turn 40?
  9. Which song reminds you of me?
  10. What's the funniest thing we've ever done together?
  11. Who is the glue in our friend group?
  12. If our friendship was a TV show, what would it be called?
  13. What's one thing you'd want me to tell you if I noticed it?
  14. When did I really show up for you?
  15. Which habit of mine have you picked up?
  16. Which role do I play in the group: planner, therapist, chaos or snack provider?
  17. What's a secret you would only tell me?
  18. What's the best advice I've given you, and the worst?
  19. If I disappeared for a week, how long would it take you to notice?
  20. What do you think I'll be doing in ten years?

Questions for the group chat

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  1. Send the last photo in your camera roll. No explanation.
  2. Who in this chat would last the longest without their phone?
  3. Rank everyone in this chat by how fast they reply.
  4. What's the most unhinged message ever sent in this chat?
  5. Describe your day in three emojis.
  6. Send the song you've played the most this week.
  7. Who here is most likely to be famous one day, and for what?
  8. Post a screenshot of your screen time. No edits.
  9. Which of us would be the worst roommate?
  10. Where should this group go on its next trip? Everyone sends one place.
  11. Who here gives the best advice, and who gives the worst?
  12. Who can find the oldest photo of all of us?
  13. Rename the chat to describe this week. Go.
  14. Which voice note would you never want played out loud?
  15. If this chat leaked, whose messages would cause the most trouble?

Late night questions

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  1. What's something you've never told anyone in this room?
  2. What are you most afraid of, really?
  3. When did you last cry, and why?
  4. What do people get wrong about you?
  5. What's a moment that changed you?
  6. Who do you miss right now?
  7. What are you proud of but never talk about?
  8. What would you do if you knew nobody would judge you?
  9. What's a decision you're still not sure was right?
  10. What does a good life look like for you in ten years?
  11. Which ended friendship do you still think about?
  12. When do you feel most like yourself?
  13. What's one thing you want us to know about you right now?
  14. What are you pretending to be fine about?
  15. If tonight was the last time we all hung out, what would you want to say?

How to turn questions for friends into a game

A list of questions becomes a game the moment there is a rule. The simplest version takes one phone and no setup at all.

  1. Sit in a circleOne phone or this page in the middle. Agree which groups are in, and whether Juicy is on the table tonight.
  2. Draw and askThe person holding the phone draws a card and picks who has to answer. Everyone gets asked at least once per round.
  3. Answer or passEvery player gets two passes for the whole game. Use them wisely, the group will remember which questions you skipped.
  4. One follow upAfter each answer, the group may ask one follow up question. Then the phone moves to the left.
Which questions fit which moment
Start withSave for later
Dinner with friendsFun, Dumb but brilliantAbout our friendship
Road tripWeird, Dumb but brilliantJuicy
SleepoverJuicy, About our friendshipLate night
Quiet weeknight in the group chatGroup chatWeird
Best friend, just the two of youAbout our friendshipLate night

Juicy answers, no names attached

In Dronk's Pandora's Box, everyone writes their answer on the phone and the app reads them out without names. The group gets the honest answers, and nobody knows who wrote what.

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Pandora's Box in the Dronk app: an anonymous question card

What makes a good question to ask a friend

You already know the basics about your friends. The best questions find the things you never thought to ask.

  • Ask for a ranking. "Rank everyone by how fast they reply" gets a whole group talking, because everyone has an opinion.
  • Ask about the friendship itself. "What was your first impression of me?" is a question most friends have never asked out loud.
  • Mix silly and serious. Two dumb questions earn you one deep one. If the room goes quiet, go back to "Is cereal a soup?"

Questions people ask

What are good questions to ask your friends?

Good questions are specific and start a story or a debate, like "What was your first impression of me?" or "Which of us would survive the longest in a zombie movie?" This page has 130 in seven groups.

What are juicy questions to ask your friends?

Juicy questions ask for a secret without targeting anyone, for example "What's the biggest lie you've ever got away with?" or "What's something you've done that you would never post?" Agree on a juicy round first and let anyone pass.

What are weird questions to ask your friends?

Try "What do you think your pet thinks your job is?" or "If you had a tail, what would it look like?" Weird questions have no right answer, which is why everyone joins in.

What are dumb questions to ask your friends?

The best dumb questions start real debates: "Is cereal a soup?", "Could you beat a goose in a fight?" or "Which day of the week has the worst personality?"

What should I ask in the group chat?

Ask for something people can send in a second: the last photo in their camera roll, their most played song this week or a screenshot of their screen time. The Group chat group has 15 ideas.

How do you ask friends questions anonymously?

Let everyone write their answer without names and read them out mixed together. In Dronk's Pandora's Box, the phone does this for you and reads the answers without showing who wrote them.

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