Spice Up Dinner Conversation With These Fun Question-and-Answer Games

Updated: Mar 9, 2018

Has family dinner gotten a little dull lately? We've got an idea of how you can spice up the conversation with some of the best question-and-answer games around. If you're looking to revitalize that "How were your days?" and "How was school?" shared over the table, or just looking to try something new for game night, look no further.

These prompts don't just inspire both serious and silly discussions, they can also be a total laugh riot. And they're appropriate for all ages, whether you're playing with your kids or mom's in town for a visit. You can try them out, anytime and anywhere you and your family have gathered together to enjoy a meal. Ready to get started? Check out our fun, family-friendly conversation games below.

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Twenty Questions

This one is a classic, and everyone already knows and loves it. But just for a refresher, in this game, one person thinks of a secret object. Everyone else has 20 questions they can ask to try and figure out what the first person is thinking of. Is it alive? Is it a plant? Is it a fruit? Is it yellow? Is it a banana? You got it! Get as specific or as general as you like.

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What's Your Power?

There are two ways to play this game, and both are plenty fun. One is what's your secret power? In this game, go around the table and have each person reveal their own secret power they may have never realized they had. Like, "My secret power is that I always pour exactly the right amount of milk for my cereal — on the first try." Or, "My secret power is that I never run out of conditioner before I'm finished with the shampoo bottle." The other version of the game is what's your superpower? This time, reveal instead what your ultimate superpower would be if you could choose anything You can also put limitations on it. What would your super power be if it could only save you five minutes a day? Instead of teleporting all the way to school or work, it might be only being able to teleport from inside your house to inside your car in the driveway.

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Wish Gone Wrong

Put on your thinking cap, because this game is all about playing along with each other and getting creative. One person starts off the game by making a wish. The person sitting to their right grants that wish, but with an important caveat that means things don't quite go as planned. Wishing for a day to hang out with your favorite celebrity? Granted, but you lose your voice and can't talk the whole time. Once you've granted a wish, you get to make your own — but be careful what you wish for, because in this game, things get wild.

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Wave, Hug, Goodbye

Ready to make the ultimate choice between three friends, family members, and well, those you consider to not be a friend? When the asker poses three different people, the answerer must pick one to wave hello to, one to hug, and one to say goodbye to — forever. Take, for example, the Three Stooges. Do you wave to Curly, hug Moe, and say goodbye to Larry? Or some other combination? You can also think outside the box if you don't want to stick to just people. Ice cream, cookies, or cake? Which one do you love enough to hug while saying goodbye to another one? It's not always easy!

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Who's With You?

In this game, the sky is the limit. It's all about thinking who you would want to be your partner — in all different facets of life. Going rock climbing? Who's going with you? Competing in a pairs trivia competition? Who's your buddy? The answer doesn't just have to be family members or even people you know. You can also think of celebrities, public figures, and fictional characters to come along. The only rule is that you can't make anyone up. So who's with you for a karaoke sing-off? Elvis is in the house for that one.

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Think Way Back

In this memory sharing game, one person can give a prompt that everyone else has to think way back to. It could be "that time we took a family trip to Oregon" or "when we used to celebrate birthdays with pool parties." Think of something that your family has in common, and then listen up as everyone thinks way back and finds a memory about that time to share with the rest of the table. You might be surprised what some people remember — and the stories you never heard before.

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Would You Rather

In this game, you pose questions back and forth to each other where the answerer has to pick between two options. They can both be great options, terrible options, or just truly bizarre options. Like, "Would you rather have hands for feet or feet for hands?" And half of the fun is parsing out what exactly that would mean. If you have hands for feet, is walking like doing a hand stand? If you have hands for feet, do shoes look like mittens? Does everybody have hands for feet, or are you the only one? And then, finally: decision time. Which one is it — which would you rather?