A Funny Question Game to Play With Friends

Two best conversation starters ever…especially if you are out with clients, friends or friends and/or are bad at small!

1. What was your first job?
2. What was your shortest job? Meaning, which job did you quit or get fired from the fastest.

The answer to the first question will tell you how similar we all are depending on the decade in which we were born!

The answer to the second questions is typically hilarious and great for breaking the ice and leading to funny stories among people that have known each other for a long time or have just met.

We play Convers(ate) – inspired by the concept of a Jeffersonian Dinner!

Exploding Kittens – card game. It’s available on Amazon and at Target. My 13 year old nephew is the king of this game. So ridiculous and so funny to play. ???

Does anyone else panic when they play these games? I just read through the questions and I was like OMG! I DON’T KNOW! DO I EVEN KNOW WHO I AM?! Ha!

Cards Against Humanity hands down. My tribe adores it!

I’ve never played loaded questions but it sounds like a way to connect with a group of people!

While I don’t typically care for games I have a friend that loves them and it’s been a great way to meet new people! Earlier this year she started bunco nights and we meet once a month. The game requires 12 people (it’s all girls in our case) and consists of friends I know and friends of friends. It’s a quick paced game and you are always moving and playing with new people. There is of course the added bonus of winning $ and prizes and there is always food & wine!

my siblings and i have gotten into the habit of playing this dare ‘game’, since it works in pretty much any setting.

person A: “what are the odds you would….. ”
person B: “one in ”
both people count to three: “one, two, three…..”
on three, you both say a number between one and whatever max person B had set.
if you both say the same number, person B has to do the dare! we’ve done odds of one in two for silly dares, up to in the hundreds for RIDICULOUS ones!

2 truths and a lie!
Each person tells 3 statements about themselves: 2 true, 1 lie. You have to guess which is the lie!
So fun and so many good stories!

We love to play games with friends! With an upcoming trip with friends we have looked for portable options – so card based. The Game is surprisingly addicting, Coup is fun, but our all time favorite was picked up at a bookstore in the Faroe Islands. It is called Animal Grab. You flip cards with animals on them over quickly in a circle and if two matching cards come up the person with the first and loudest impression of the animal wins. If its a tie then it goes to an animal sound-off and the other players are judges. Cant wait to play it with our kids when they get old enough too!

Where in the world would you live, if you had to move tomorrow?
LA, but only the idealized one in my imagination where I will have lots of friends, a “chill but meaningful” job, and somehow magically possess the discipline/passion to exercise regularly and become a vegetarian.

Which celebrity would you have as a spouse, if you had to choose?
Jason Mantzoukas. We would have terrible debates/arguments but have the best time making up.

What talent would you have, if you could choose anything?
The ability to repair things! (Furniture, machinery, relationships…)

What job would you have, if you couldn’t have your job?
Event planner for happy people.

What’s your biggest pet peeve?
When people can’t put their phones down! (The people themselves are not my pet peeve, just the times when they can’t put their phone down. Very important distinction that I’ve had to keep in mind!)

RE: High school math teacher.

I went to college to be a third grade math teacher! I wanted to teach multiplication, don’t ask me why? I ended up with a business marketing degree and now I write proposals, go figure. Really though, if I could choose any job, I’d own a bookstore. I’d marry Michael Fassbender. Keep my condo in Chicago and have a ranch in Bozeman, Montana. I’d magically not be tone deaf and be able to sing. Everyone would say please and thank you because rude people are the worst.

I’m with you on Yell sneeze! It’s right up there with sigh yawn on my pet peeves list.

There’s also a game where you have to say a word really quickly and other people have to guess what you’re saying. Gets really fun when you’re playing at 1am or slightly buzzed. :) The infamous Mafia game used to be popular too amongst my friends, but it’s been awhile, and it could be fun but divisive… I was always so bad at lying! And shocked at how good some people were!

Forgot another major pet peeve! When I’ve been watching a very exciting, perhaps scary, tv show for about an hour, and then the episode ends with no ending and they say ‘to be continued’, and I have to wait one more week (or sometimes even a few months!) to see how the story continues!!!
Can’t handle it!
When I was younger, I even once phoned up the network to complain about that! Won’t do that now though, guess I’ve grown up a bit haha.

Live in: Hawaii. Or New York City.
Celebrity spouse: Paul Rudd comes to mind! Or our nerdy prime minister Mark Rutte (he plays the piano! Melt.)
Talent: I would love to be good at drawing. Can you imagine only needing a piece of paper and a pencil and making the most beautiful creations wherever whenever? Now my 6-year old is better at drawing than I am at 36 (not a challenge, but still!)
Job: A flight attendant. My eyesight was not good enough, so I had no chance at it back in the nineties.
Or a doctor. I would love to save a life someday and be a real-life super hero.
Pet peeve: the sound of plastic food wrapping being moved around, like when people eat food directly out of its packaging. Aaahhh!!!

Yell sneezes can’t be helped!!! Lol! I have tried! Those cute little dainty sneezes… How I wish I could. I have tried to no avail. It almost feels like repressing my sneezes has the potential to cause a bizarre internal injury! Fascinating fact: my mom’s doctor recently told her that people injure their backs trying to sneeze quietly! So it’s official: genetics makes us do it! Please forgive! Lol!

Yell sneezes. They are ENRAGING. Also, loud, wet mouth-open chewing, smacking. “ARE YOU A COW!?!?!??” My ears are bleeding just thinking about both. And now I must stop thinking about both, because I’m getting angry.

My girlfriends and I have totally played made-up Loaded Questions! We love it. There are just four of us in our core group, and we know each other so well that it’s almost impossible to get it wrong, but it’s still funny :). I once played it at a bridal shower, too.

Also, your friend Gisela’s comment “It feels so good to be ignored.” And then that pic. LOL!

Yes to playing games with friends! Over a year ago, a friend and I both expressed interest in spending more time together, so we established a standing monthly family dinner. She and her husband and daughters come to our house for dinner, and then we put all of our kids to bed. The grown ups then break out games and snacks and the odd drink. At the end of the night – often approaching midnight – they pack up their girls to go home. It’s one of my favorite nights each month and a great excuse to put away our phones, have some fun, and enjoy great company. Our husbands mostly don’t mind that we’re sometimes too engaged in conversation to participate in the game!

Please consider that yelly sneezes are totally not avoidable for everyone, haha! I used to only have those cute quiet sneezes until I developed seasonal allergies — and years later, all my sneezes are unavoidably LOUD, even when stifling them into my inner elbow. Something happened to them! I don’t do it on purpose I swear!

That game sounds great and I’m so glad you had a lovely time! I love board games but am usually the only one into them. Cranium’s a favorite as it uses all forms of smarts. :)