50 fun questions to ask your friends (group chat approved)

Every friend group hits the same wall eventually. Everyone is together, everyone is comfortable, and somehow nobody has anything to say. Or the group chat, once a 300-message-a-day machine, has gone quiet for three days.

The fix is a good question. Here are 50 of them, sorted from easy warm-ups to ones that might start a twenty-minute debate. Pick one, drop it in the chat, and watch what happens.

Easy warm-ups

1. What's the most overrated food everyone pretends to like?
2. What's your go-to order when you can't decide?
3. What song have you played way too many times this month?
4. What's the worst gift you've ever received (that you pretended to love)?
5. If you had a theme song that played when you walked into a room, what would it be?
6. What's a small thing that instantly makes your day better?
7. What's the most useless talent you have?
8. Cereal before milk or milk before cereal? Defend yourself.
9. What's the last thing you searched on your phone? (You can say "no comment.")
10. What did you want to be when you were seven?

Would you rather

11. Would you rather always be 10 minutes late or always be 20 minutes early?
12. Would you rather have a rewind button or a pause button for your life?
13. Would you rather only text in voice notes or only text in emojis for a month?
14. Would you rather know every language or be able to talk to animals?
15. Would you rather have free food forever or free travel forever?
16. Would you rather relive your best day or skip your worst one?
17. Would you rather be famous for something embarrassing or unknown for something amazing?
18. Would you rather have your search history or your camera roll made public? (Choose carefully.)
19. Would you rather give up music or give up your phone for a week?
20. Would you rather be the funniest person in the room or the smartest?

Hot takes (expect arguments)

21. Is a hot dog a sandwich?
22. What's a popular movie you secretly think is boring?
23. Is it ever acceptable to leave someone on read?
24. Breakfast for dinner: elite or chaotic?
25. Who in this group would survive the longest in a zombie movie?
26. What's an "adult" thing that's actually fun?
27. What's a trend you'll never understand?
28. Is it rude to recline your seat on a plane?
29. Which app could you delete tomorrow and not miss at all?
30. Pineapple on pizza. Final answer. Go.

About the group

31. What was your first impression of each person here? (Be nice. Mostly.)
32. Who in this group is most likely to become famous?
33. Who is the group's mom friend, and who is the group's chaos agent?
34. What's the funniest thing that's ever happened to us as a group?
35. If our group were a TV show, what would it be called?
36. Who would you call first in an emergency, and who would you call first with gossip?
37. What's an inside joke you've completely forgotten the origin of?
38. Who in this group gives the best advice?
39. If we went on a trip tomorrow, who would plan it and who would forget their charger?
40. What's something you've never told the group but probably should have?

Deep-ish (for 2 AM)

41. What's something you changed your mind about this year?
42. What's a compliment you still think about?
43. What are you weirdly proud of that nobody knows about?
44. What would you do if you knew nobody would judge you?
45. What's a small moment that turned out to be a big deal?
46. What does a perfect ordinary day look like for you?
47. What's something you wish people asked you about more?
48. Who has been the biggest influence on you so far?
49. What's one thing you want to do before the end of this year?
50. What's something you're looking forward to right now?

How to use these without it being weird

Don't read them out like a job interview. Drop one into the conversation and let it run. The best questions turn into stories, and the best stories turn into inside jokes. Also, "pass" is always a valid answer, especially on the deep-ish ones.

And if you want a question list that comes with a score attached, you already know where to go. Take the Rice Purity Test together using our house rules for playing with friends, then settle question 33 for good with the Are You the Red Flag? quiz.