Would You Rather for Couples
Pick in secret, reveal together, then talk about why.
- Time
- 5–20 min
- Players
- Two players, one phone
- Best for
- First game of the night
- Deck
- 150 dilemmas in five categories
How to play would you rather with your partner
- Pick a category from the menu on the card, or leave it on “All categories”.
- One of you taps a pick while the other looks away. The pick is hidden right away.
- The other taps theirs, and both picks appear together, whether they are the same or not.
- Talk it out. Hearing each other’s reasons is the best part. Then tap “Next question”.
When to play would you rather
Nobody has to be clever or vulnerable to play. You tap one of two options and the reasons come out on their own, which is why it works as the opener of an evening and as a rescue when a conversation has stalled.
On a road trip
The passenger reads the dilemma, the driver answers first, and the Adventure category writes itself into your next trip.
Waiting for the food
One card per course, answered out loud. It beats two phones and silence.
First weeks together
Fun and Silly reveal a surprising amount without asking anything heavy.
Ways to play
Talk-only rounds
On a drive, a walk or a slow dinner, skip the tapping: read the dilemma aloud, both answer, and tap “Skip this one” for the next card.
On two phones or over a video call
Make a code on the long distance page and open Would You Rather with it on both phones, on the same category. Read each dilemma aloud, say your picks over the call, then both tap “Skip this one” to move on.
Tips for a better game
- Skip freely. Some dilemmas will not land for every couple, and the deck is long.
- Start with Fun or Silly, then move to Romance and Future once you are warmed up.
All 150 would you rather questions for couples
Every card in the game, grouped by category. Read them aloud on a walk, pick your own favorites, or let the game deal them in a random order.
Fun
Easy, low-stakes dilemmas to warm up with.
- have a weekly date night planned entirely by your partnerorplan every date night together
- only ever eat your partner’s cookingoronly ever eat takeout together
- binge a whole series in one weekendorwatch one episode a night for months
- have a karaoke nightorhave a board game night
- win a lifetime supply of coffeeorwin a lifetime supply of dessert
- be able to pause time during a great momentorrewind to relive one
- share one giant milkshake with two strawsorhave two small ones
- have a pet that can talkorhave a car that drives itself
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- give up social media for a yearorgive up streaming for a year
- always know what your partner is thinkingorhave them always know what you are thinking
- sleep in every dayorhave every evening free
- have a personal cheforhave a personal cleaner
- start a brand-new hobby together from scratchoreach pick a hobby and teach it to the other
- pick the music on every car rideorpick the snacks on every car ride
- spend a rainy afternoon building a blanket fortorspend it baking something neither of you has made
- have a secret handshake only you two knoworhave a secret code word only you two know
- learn one magic trick to perfectionorlearn to juggle three of anything
- text only in emojis for a dayortext only in voice notes for a day
- never wait in a line againornever sit in traffic again
- discover a new favorite band togetherordiscover a new favorite restaurant together
- be brilliant at assembling furniture from a boxorbe brilliant at parallel parking on the first try
- spend a lazy Saturday in a bookstoreorspend it digging through a record store
- be great at doing impressionsorbe great at telling stories
- invent a new dish together and name itormaster a dish from each other’s childhood
- have a signature dance move as a coupleorhave a signature photo pose as a couple
- have a water park all to yourselves for a dayorhave an ice rink all to yourselves for a day
- have a movie made about how you metorhave a novel written about how you met
- compete on a cooking show as a teamorcompete on a home makeover show as a team
- send each other one silly meme every dayorsend each other a photo of your view every day
- rewatch a childhood favorite togetherortake a chance on a movie nobody recommended
Romance
Gestures, dates and how you like to be loved.
- receive a handwritten letterorreceive a playlist made just for you
- relive your first dateorrelive your first kiss
- slow dance in the kitchenordance at a crowded concert
- get breakfast in bedorhave a candlelit dinner
- spend a whole weekend with no phonesorget a love note every day for a week
- celebrate an anniversary on a beachorcelebrate it in the place you first met
- receive one grand gesture a yearorreceive small sweet gestures every day
- be told “I love you” in ten languagesorbe shown it in ten small ways
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- have a surprise date planned for youorplan a surprise date for your partner
- cuddle through a thunderstormorstargaze on a clear night
- take a couples massage classortake a couples cooking class
- have your partner write you a songorhave your partner paint you a picture
- be surprised with tickets to a show you loveorbe surprised with a day you don’t have to plan at all
- have your partner remember every little thing you mentionorhave your partner offer a hug before you even ask
- have a song that’s just yours as a coupleorhave a spot in town that’s just yours
- be cheered up with a silly joke on a hard dayorbe cheered up with your favorite comfort food
- choose each other’s outfit for a dateororder for each other at a restaurant
- be sung to sleep by your partnerorbe read to sleep by your partner
- hear your partner describe the moment they fell for youortell your partner about the moment you fell for them
- have your partner plan a day around your favorite thingsorhave them plan a day of things you’ve never tried
- get a surprise care package in the mailorget a surprise visit at your door
- cook your partner’s favorite meal from scratchortake them to the best place that serves it
- hear your partner say they’re proud of youorhear your partner say how much they missed you
- watch the city lights from a hilltoporwatch paper lanterns drift down a river
- get a gift you mentioned wanting months agoorget a gift you never knew you wanted
- take a long night walk with nowhere to beorshare one pair of earbuds on a long train ride
- get a tour of your partner’s childhood neighborhoodorshow them around the neighborhood where you grew up
- be met at arrivals with a handmade signorbe met at arrivals with your favorite snack
- spend an evening sharing favorite memories of each otherorspend an evening planning memories you haven’t made yet
- celebrate a random Tuesday like it’s a holidayorcelebrate every small win like it’s a big one
Adventure
Trips, thrills and where you would go if you could.
- take a road trip with no maporfollow a fully planned itinerary
- spend a month in a mountain cabinorspend a month in a beach house
- go skydiving togetherorgo scuba diving together
- explore a new city every yearorreturn to the same favorite place every year
- camp under the starsorstay in a five-star hotel
- learn to surf togetherorlearn to ski together
- take a hot air balloon rideortake a helicopter tour
- cross a continent by trainorsail along a coastline
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- visit every national parkorvisit every world capital
- eat street food at a night marketoreat a tasting menu at a fancy restaurant
- live abroad for a yearortravel for a year with no home base
- hike to a hidden waterfallorfind a secret beach
- see the northern lightsorsee a total solar eclipse
- ride the longest zip line in the worldorwalk a glass bridge over a canyon
- spend a night in a treehouseorspend a night in an igloo
- let your partner choose a mystery destinationorspin a globe and go wherever it lands
- paddle a kayak through a maze of sea cavesorcycle along a canal from town to town
- watch elephants on a safariorwatch whales from a small boat
- hike across a black lava fieldorwalk across a glacier with a guide
- join a kite festival on a windy hillorjoin a sand sculpture festival on a beach
- solve a scavenger hunt across a city you’ve never seenorfollow a local’s hand-drawn map of their favorite spots
- ride horses across open grasslandorgo snowshoeing through a silent forest
- take a ferry to an island with no roadsortake a train to a village above the clouds
- canoe down a slow river for a weekendorhike a mountain trail from hut to hut
- see a forest full of firefliesorsee waves glowing blue at night
- hunt for fossils along a rocky shoreorpan for gold in a chilly mountain river
- visit the real places from your favorite bookorvisit the filming locations of your favorite movie
- soak in hot springs while it snowsorfloat in a salty lake under a desert sky
- travel where you can’t read a single signortravel where you speak the language well
- chase cherry blossoms in springorchase red maple leaves in autumn
Future
Homes, habits and the life you are building together.
- live in a big cityorlive in a quiet small town
- have a tiny house with a big yardorhave a big house with a tiny yard
- retire early on a modest budgetorretire later with plenty to spend
- know exactly where you’ll be in ten yearsorbe completely surprised
- build your dream home from scratchorrestore an old house full of character
- have a house full of petsorhave a house full of plants
- work from home togetherorhave separate offices and meet for lunch
- start a small business togetherorkeep work and love completely separate
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- host a weekly family dinnerorhost one big holiday a year
- learn a new language togetherorlearn an instrument together
- grow most of your own foodorhave a favorite restaurant on every corner
- spend holidays travelingorspend holidays hosting at home
- write letters to each other to open in five yearsorrecord videos for each other to watch in five years
- have a home with a huge kitchenorhave a home with a cozy reading nook
- keep one Sunday ritual for decadesormake every Sunday a little different
- live a short walk from your closest friendsorlive a short drive from your families
- take one whole year off together somedayortake a full month off together every year
- live in one home your whole lifeorlive in five very different homes
- have a hidden bookcase door in your homeorhave a slide from upstairs to the kitchen
- check in with a quick call every lunchtimeorsave every story for a long talk at night
- fill your home with art you made yourselvesorfill it with things you brought back from trips
- settle somewhere warm all yearorsettle somewhere with four proper seasons
- volunteer together once a monthorgo on a day trip together once a month
- have a home friends can drop by anytimeorhave a home that’s your private hideaway
- learn to fix anything that breaks at homeorlearn to make most things from scratch
- have a crackling fireplace to curl up byorhave a hammock strung between two trees
- chase one big shared dream for ten yearsortick off lots of small shared goals every year
- keep traditions from both your familiesorinvent brand-new traditions of your own
- spend weekends working on a shared projectorspend weekends exploring nearby towns
- keep a few chickens in the backyard somedayorkeep a buzzing beehive in the backyard someday
Silly
Absurd choices that exist purely to make you laugh.
- have your partner’s laugh as your ringtoneorhave their face printed on your debit card
- wear matching outfits for a monthorswap wardrobes for a week
- only speak in movie quotes for a dayoronly sing for a day
- have a pillow fight every nightorhave a dance-off every morning
- get tickled every time you tell a fiborsneeze every time your partner says your name
- always have slightly cold feetoralways have slightly damp socks
- narrate everything you do out loudorhear your partner narrate everything you do
- face one duck the size of a horseorface a hundred horses the size of ducks
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- have spaghetti for hairorhave fingers that are tiny breadsticks
- communicate only through interpretive dance for a dayorcommunicate only through drawings for a day
- have a butler who is a raccoonorhave a chauffeur who is a goose
- always be five minutes late togetheroralways be thirty minutes early together
- have a front door that only opens if you compliment itorhave a fridge that only opens if you tell it a joke
- have a tiny rain cloud that waters your plantsorhave a tiny sun that follows you on cold days
- swap voices with your partner for a dayorswap handwriting with your partner forever
- hop everywhere on Mondaysormoonwalk everywhere on Fridays
- have a sandwich named after the two of youorhave a very small hill named after you
- eat everything with chopsticks, even cerealoreat everything with a spoon, even noodles
- wear a superhero cape everywhere you goorwear a tiny crown everywhere you go
- high-five everyone you meetorbow to everyone you meet
- live in a bouncy castle for a weekorlive in a giant snow globe for a week
- repeat the last word of every sentence, sentenceorstart every sentence with “fun fact”
- have confetti fall every time you laughorhave bubbles float up every time you sigh
- arrive at every date on a unicycleorarrive at every date on roller skates
- have everything taste a little like mintorhave everything taste a little like cinnamon
- find a googly eye on everything you ownorfind a tiny hat on everything you own
- float like a balloon for five minutes every afternoonorbounce like a ball for five minutes every morning
- have a pocket that always holds a warm cookieorhave a sleeve that always holds a fresh tissue
- have your shadow wave at people on its ownorhave your reflection wink at you every morning
- have a laugh track play after your jokesorhave a drumroll play before your big news
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Frequently asked questions
Will the same question come up twice?
Not while you stay on one category. The game shuffles the cards and deals each one once before it reshuffles. Changing the category starts a new shuffle, so a card you have seen can come back.
Are the questions appropriate?
Everything is written for adults in a relationship but stays tasteful. Romance cards are affectionate rather than explicit, so you can read them out loud wherever you are.
Does the game keep score?
It keeps a simple count of how often you picked the same and how often you picked differently, just for this visit. Neither is better: same picks and different picks both make good conversations.
Is there a version for friends and family?
Yes. Would you rather questions has clean questions for any group, from a team lunch to a family road trip, on the same kind of swipe-through cards.