Truth or Dare Wheel

Prompts that work for any group

Every prompt on both lists is safe for a mixed group. Nothing involves alcohol, nothing is designed to embarrass anyone, and nothing asks for information somebody might genuinely not want to share.

That is deliberate. Most truth-or-dare lists online are written for one particular kind of party and are unusable anywhere else. These work at a family game night, a sleepover and a team-building session — and you can always make them spicier yourself.

On Truth or dare, truths and dares share one wheel, so the spin decides which kind you get as well as which prompt. To choose the type first, put Truth and Dare on the yes or no wheel, then spin here for the prompt.

The lists on this wheel

Truth or dare

Eight truths and eight dares mixed on one wheel, all of them fine for a mixed group.

• Truth: what's your most useless talent?
• Dare: speak in an accent for 3 rounds
• Truth: what's the last song you had stuck in your head?
• Dare: let the group pick your next playlist song
• Truth: what's your worst haircut story?
• Dare: do your best impression of someone here
• Truth: what's a hill you'd die on?
• Dare: do your best robot dance for ten seconds
• Truth: what's your guilty-pleasure movie?
• Dare: hold a plank until your next turn
• Truth: what's the worst advice you've followed?
• Dare: swap seats with the person on your left
• Truth: what would you do with a free day?
• Dare: talk without using the letter E for one minute
• Truth: what's your most irrational fear?
• Dare: tell a joke until someone laughs

Would you rather

Sixteen dilemmas with a real case on both sides and nothing personal to give away.

• Fly or be invisible?
• Always be 10 minutes late or 20 minutes early?
• Never use social media or never watch a film again?
• Have unlimited money or unlimited time?
• Live by the ocean or in the mountains?
• Only summer or only winter?
• Read minds or see one week ahead?
• Never hear music again or never taste chocolate?
• Be famous or be extremely rich but unknown?
• Speak every language or play every instrument?
• Give up coffee or give up dessert?
• Always have to sing instead of speak, or dance everywhere?
• Explore space or the deep ocean?
• Have no phone for a month or no hot water for a week?
• Be able to teleport or to pause time?
• Have a rewind button or a pause button for your life?

Running truth or dare

• Set the ground rules first. Anyone can pass. Deciding that before you start is what keeps the game fun.
• Turn on Remove the winner after each spin so prompts do not repeat around the circle.
• Settle the order with who goes first.
• Add your own. Inside jokes and prompts about the room always beat a list a stranger wrote; fifteen minutes of the group writing dares produces a much better game.
• Go Fullscreen on a TV for a bigger group.

If you send a wheel of your own prompts to other people, remember that whoever writes a shared wheel is responsible for what is on it.

Would you rather: a question with no wrong answer

A good would-you-rather has no right answer and forces a justification. That is why it works with people who do not know each other well: nobody can be wrong, and everybody has to say something about how they think.

The sixteen on Would you rather are chosen for that. Each one has a genuine case on both sides, none needs any shared background, and none is personal — you are defending a hypothetical, not disclosing anything about yourself.

Spin, let everyone answer, then ask whoever answered fastest to explain why. That second step is where the conversation actually happens.

Where would-you-rather questions get used

Road trips and waiting rooms. Nothing needed beyond a phone, and no reading.

Classrooms. Speaking practice, persuasive-writing warm-ups and debate prep: spin, then have students argue the side they did not pick. The classroom question list has prompts written for lessons.

Team meetings. A two-minute opener that is not "share one fun fact about yourself", which nobody enjoys.

Parties. Turn on remove-after-spin and work through all sixteen.