50 Icebreaker Questions for Game Night

The first ten minutes of a game night are often quiet. A few well-chosen questions fix that. The 50 questions below work for groups that just met and for groups that have known each other for years. Ask them one by one, write them on cards or turn them into live games.

Warm-up questions

1. If you could eat only one meal for a week, what would it be?
2. What was your favourite cartoon as a child?
3. Where would you live if nobody knew you?
4. What was the last photo you took on your phone?
5. Are you a morning person or a night person?
6. What is your favourite season and why?
7. Which superpower would you choose?
8. Mountains or sea on holiday?
9. What is the most spontaneous thing you have ever done?
10. Is there a hobby you wanted to learn and gave up?

Fun questions

11. Describe the last series you watched in one sentence.
12. In which historical period would you like to live?
13. Do you prefer cooking or eating?
14. What is your funniest phone habit?
15. Which song makes you dance whenever you hear it?
16. If you were an animal for a day, which would you be?
17. If you could change one thing in the world, what would it be?
18. What is your favourite snack?
19. Have you ever set an alarm that never rang?
20. Which celebrity would you like to have dinner with?

Personal questions

21. What makes you laugh the most?
22. What is the best advice you ever received?
23. Has anything surprised you lately?
24. If you were an expert in one thing, what would it be?
25. If your life were a movie, what would it be called?
26. What relaxes you the most?
27. Which skill would you like to have?
28. What is your favourite childhood memory?
29. How would you spend a free day?
30. Do you have a strange talent people do not know about?

Questions for offices and teams

31. What is your favourite ritual when working from home?
32. What is the first thing you do after work?
33. What is the most valuable lesson you learned at work?
34. Is there something you would like to do together as a team?
35. What is the strangest item on your desk?
36. What was your first job?
37. Which meeting would you replace with an email?
38. Describe our team in one word.
39. What music do you listen to while working?
40. Which piece of work are you most proud of this year?

Quick round: answer in one word

41. Coffee or tea?
42. What comes to mind when you hear Sunday?
43. Rain?
44. Summer?
45. Home?
46. Music?
47. Movie?
48. Book?
49. Travel?
50. Future?

Play this last part with a word cloud. Everyone types one answer per word and the most common word grows on the screen.

How to run it

• Ask the questions one at a time and give everyone a short turn.
• In larger groups, vote with a live poll.
• Once the group is warm, move on to a quiz or Taboo round. See our game night ideas for more.

Frequently asked questions

How long should the icebreaker last?

About 10 to 15 minutes. The goal is to start the conversation, not to run a long round.

Are the questions suitable for everyone?

Yes, but use the personal questions only with groups that know each other. Never force anyone to answer.