Would You Rather is the easiest game in the world. One player asks a question with two choices, everyone picks a side, and the arguments about who's right last three exits past your rest stop. It needs zero equipment, zero setup, and zero batteries, which makes it the reigning champion of long drives, restaurant waits, and airport gates.
Here are 60 of our favorites, grouped by theme so you can match the mood in the back seat. Steal them, remix them, and when your kids start inventing their own, you'll know the game has properly taken hold.
Spy Mission Would You Rathers
- Would you rather have night vision or super hearing?
- Would you rather write in invisible ink or crack any code?
- Would you rather disguise your voice or disguise your face?
- Would you rather sneak past a laser maze or escape from a locked room?
- Would you rather have a watch that records video or shoes with a secret compartment?
- Would you rather spy on your teacher or spy on your parents?
- Would you rather have a getaway car or a getaway helicopter?
- Would you rather know everyone's secrets or keep one secret nobody could ever discover?
- Would you rather set a trap for a sibling or catch a sibling in the act?
- Would you rather be a spy with gadgets or a detective with a brilliant brain?
Raising a question 6 kid? The SpyX line was built for them. The DIY Voice Disguiser and Spy Recon Watch both fit in a backpack pocket, and both survive the trip home.
Music Would You Rathers
- Would you rather play piano with your toes or drums with your elbows?
- Would you rather sing everything you say for a day or dance everywhere you walk for a week?
- Would you rather be the drummer or the lead singer?
- Would you rather play one song brilliantly or every song pretty well?
- Would you rather perform for 10,000 strangers or five people you know?
- Would you rather have a song written about you or write a song everyone knows?
- Would you rather hear your favorite song once a year or every single hour?
- Would you rather invent a new instrument or master the weirdest one that exists?
- Would you rather your voice sounded like a robot or like a cartoon chipmunk?
- Would you rather drum on every surface you see or hum every moment you're awake?
Fun fact for the drummers in the car: the Rock And Roll It Rainbow Piano rolls up like a beach towel, so a full-size keyboard actually fits in a carry-on. Hotel room concerts, solved.
Space Would You Rathers
- Would you rather walk on Mars or fly past Saturn's rings?
- Would you rather be an astronaut or run mission control?
- Would you rather discover a new planet or a new creature in the ocean?
- Would you rather float in zero gravity for a day or breathe underwater for a day?
- Would you rather drive a Mars rover or pilot a space shuttle?
- Would you rather meet a friendly alien or find a dinosaur that's still alive?
- Would you rather have a telescope that sees everything or a rocket that goes anywhere?
- Would you rather sleep in a space station or camp on the Moon?
- Would you rather name a star or have a crater named after you?
- Would you rather eat astronaut food for a month or wear a spacesuit to school for a week?
Question 25 has a right answer in our house: the NASA Perseverance Mars Rover, built piece by piece on the kitchen table.
Food Would You Rathers
- Would you rather have noodles for fingers or meatballs for knees?
- Would you rather everything you drink tasted like ketchup or everything you eat tasted like mint?
- Would you rather eat pizza every day forever or ice cream every day forever?
- Would you rather sneeze glitter or hiccup bubbles?
- Would you rather eat a sandwich the size of a car or 1,000 tiny sandwiches?
- Would you rather give up candy or give up french fries?
- Would you rather drink everything through your nose or chew everything 100 times?
- Would you rather have a fridge that refills itself or a plate that cleans itself?
- Would you rather breakfast for dinner every day or dinner for breakfast every day?
- Would you rather only eat food that's blue or only eat food that starts with the letter B?
Totally Random Would You Rathers
- Would you rather have a pet dragon or be a dragon?
- Would you rather be 10 feet tall or 10 inches tall?
- Would you rather travel back in time or into the future?
- Would you rather speak every language or talk to animals?
- Would you rather have a bouncy castle bedroom or a treehouse taller than your school?
- Would you rather swap lives with your pet for a day or with your parent for a day?
- Would you rather it rained every Saturday or snowed every birthday?
- Would you rather have wheels instead of feet or springs instead of legs?
- Would you rather laugh like a goat or sneeze like a fire alarm?
- Would you rather build a robot best friend or find out your best friend is secretly a robot?
- Would you rather live in a world with no homework or a world with no bedtime?
- Would you rather high-five everyone you meet or bow to everyone you meet?
- Would you rather your hair changed color with your mood or your shoes squeaked your name?
- Would you rather be invisible for a day or fly for an hour?
- Would you rather have a remote control for time or a map that shows anything you've lost?
- Would you rather bounce everywhere you go or slide everywhere you go?
- Would you rather own a snake that tells jokes or a spider that does your chores?
- Would you rather never lose another game or never lose another sock?
- Would you rather have fingers that glow in the dark or ears that wiggle on command?
- Would you rather ask the questions forever or answer them forever?
How to keep it going
Turn it into a tournament: each round, the answer that gets the most votes wins, and the loser of each face-off invents the next question. By the time you've crossed a state line, the kids are writing material that's funnier than anything on this list.
And if the back seat needs more than questions, the trunk has room. Every order over $30 ships free, so the boredom-emergency kit can arrive before the trip does.
FAQ
What are Would You Rather questions?
Would You Rather is a conversation game where players choose between two options, like "would you rather have night vision or super hearing?" Each player picks one and explains why. There are no right answers, which is exactly why kids love arguing about them.
What ages are Would You Rather questions good for?
Would You Rather works from about age 5 up. Younger kids do best with silly, concrete choices (noodles for fingers). Kids 8 and up enjoy trickier trade-offs and inventing their own questions.
How do you play Would You Rather in the car?
One player asks a question, everyone in the car answers and defends their pick, then the next player asks. For longer drives, play tournament style: the most popular answer wins the round, and the round loser makes up the next question.
Are Would You Rather questions screen-free?
Yes. Would You Rather needs no phones, cards, or equipment. It's a purely verbal game, which makes it one of the best screen-free activities for road trips, waiting rooms, and restaurants.
