36 questions to ask at dinner
“How was your day?” gets you “fine”. These get you a story. Roll the die for one, or scroll down and pick your own.
Tonight's question
What's one thing you wish we did more often?
All 36
Six kinds, six of each. They work for a ten-year-old, a teenager and a grandparent, and nobody can answer them with one word.
About today
- What was the best part of your day? And the worst?
- What made you laugh today?
- Who did you sit next to today, and what did you talk about?
- What surprised you today?
- What was the hardest thing you did today?
- If today had a title, what would it be?
Would you rather
- Would you rather live in a treehouse or on a boat?
- Would you rather be able to fly or be invisible?
- Would you rather eat only breakfast or only dessert for a week?
- Would you rather have a pet dragon or a pet dinosaur?
- Would you rather explore the deep sea or outer space?
- Would you rather be the oldest or the youngest in the family?
What if
- If you could change one rule in this house, which one?
- If you ran the world for one day, what would you do first?
- If you could swap places with someone at this table for a day, who?
- If our family had a motto, what should it be?
- If you could invent a holiday, what would we celebrate?
- If you could have dinner with anyone, who would you pick?
Remember when
- What's your favorite memory of all of us together?
- What's the funniest thing that ever happened in this family?
- What's the best day out we've ever had?
- What game did you love when you were younger?
- What were you scared of when you were little?
- What's a smell or a sound that reminds you of home?
About you
- What's something you're good at that I don't know about?
- When did you last feel really proud of yourself?
- What song can't you stop listening to right now?
- What do you want to get better at this year?
- What could you show me how to do?
- What job would you never want, and why?
Your choice
- What's one thing you wish we did more often?
- What's a choice you made this week that you'd make again?
- If you had a free afternoon, how would you spend it?
- What would you save up for?
- What's the hardest choice you've had to make?
- What should we do together this weekend?
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