Would you rather

How it works

Share the link with your team. Everyone picks a side on each dilemma — results update live so you can see where the group stands. No sign-up needed to play.

This template includes 10 work-appropriate Would You Rather questions designed to spark conversation without crossing any lines. Each question uses Questiory’s This or That interaction, and results are displayed as a Split visualization so you can compare both sides at a glance.

The 10 questions in this template

  1. Work from anywhere in the world or have a 4-day work week forever
  2. Always know the right answer or always ask the right question
  3. Have unlimited creativity or have unlimited focus
  4. Lead a small team you love or be part of a huge project that changes everything
  5. Never have another meeting or never write another email
  6. Master every tool instantly or master one skill deeply over 10 years
  7. Always be early or always be perfectly on time
  8. Work with your best friend or work with someone who challenges you constantly
  9. Have a mentor who’s a CEO or have a mentor who’s a world traveler
  10. Know what your career looks like in 10 years or be surprised by every opportunity

50+ Would You Rather questions for every team situation

Use these to swap into the template or build your own rounds. Pick 5–10 per session — that’s the sweet spot.

For teams that are just meeting. Low-stakes, fun questions to get people comfortable.

  • Have the best office view in the building or the most comfortable chair ever made
  • Only communicate through memes for a day or only speak in questions for a day
  • Have a personal theme song that plays when you enter a room or have a personal narrator for your workday
  • Be famous inside your company or be anonymous but incredibly influential
  • Have free lunch at work every day or leave one hour early every day
  • Share an office with your favorite celebrity or work from your dream vacation spot

What do you actually value? These spark real conversations about priorities.

  • Have a high-paying job you tolerate or a lower-paying job you absolutely love
  • Work 4 long days or 5 shorter days
  • Have unlimited PTO that you feel guilty using or 20 fixed days you take without question
  • Start work at 6am and finish at 2pm or start at 11am and finish at 7pm
  • Never work weekends again or never work past 5pm on weekdays
  • Have a 5-minute commute to a boring office or a 1-hour commute to an amazing one

Where are you headed? Good for teams reflecting on growth and goals.

  • Be the best at one thing or be pretty good at everything
  • Get promoted to management or become the top individual contributor
  • Work on something brand new with high risk or improve something proven with steady results
  • Have a job title that sounds impressive or a job role that's actually meaningful
  • Learn a new skill every month or go deep on one skill for a year
  • Work at a tiny startup with huge equity or a big company with big stability

How do you work with others? Reveals collaboration styles and preferences.

  • Always work in a team or always work solo
  • Have a manager who gives too much feedback or one who gives almost none
  • Be the one presenting the idea or the one building it behind the scenes
  • Work with a genius who's hard to get along with or a great teammate who's average at the job
  • Have meetings where everyone talks or meetings where everything is a shared doc
  • Always be the newest person on the team or always be the most experienced

The eternal debate. Perfect for hybrid and distributed teams.

  • Only work from home forever or only work from the office forever
  • Have a fancy home office setup or a budget to work from coffee shops and coworking spaces
  • Never turn on your camera again or never use Slack again
  • Have your team in the same timezone or have your team spread across the world
  • Attend all meetings from a beach or skip all meetings entirely
  • Have the best internet in the world at home or live next door to the office

What kind of leader are you? Great for offsites and management workshops.

  • Make a fast decision that might be wrong or take a long time to make the right one
  • Lead a team through a crisis or lead a team through rapid growth
  • Be the leader everyone likes or the leader everyone respects
  • Give hard feedback in person or give it in writing
  • Have a team that always agrees with you or a team that constantly challenges you
  • Be in charge of strategy or be in charge of execution

How does your brain work? Fun for workshops and brainstorming sessions.

  • Solve one impossible problem or improve 100 small things
  • Have the idea or have the plan to execute it
  • Work with no constraints and no budget or tight constraints and unlimited budget
  • Brainstorm alone first, then share or brainstorm live with the whole team
  • Design the perfect product nobody uses or build an ugly product millions love
  • Automate your entire job or make your job twice as creative

Just for laughs. End-of-week energy or when the team needs a break.

  • Have a rewind button for your last email or a pause button for any meeting
  • Accidentally reply-all something embarrassing or accidentally unmute yourself in a meeting
  • Have your Slack status always show what you're actually doing or have your browser history shared with your team
  • Only eat lunch at exactly noon forever or never know when your lunch break is
  • Have a robot assistant that's very literal or a human assistant that's very dramatic
  • Give a presentation in pajamas or attend every meeting standing up

When to use it

  • Start of a meeting — pick 5 questions, takes 3 minutes, warms everyone up
  • Team building sessions — use a full round of 10 to reveal personalities and spark conversation
  • Onboarding — new hires get to know coworkers without the awkward small talk
  • Remote teams — works perfectly async or live on a call
  • Workshops & offsites — use topic-specific questions to set the tone for the session
  • End of week — close with the fun round to send everyone off laughing

Customize it

Search for “Would You Rather” in the template library and click Use template. A copy is added to your account — swap in any of the questions above, add more rounds, or mix in other interactions like word clouds or voting.

Want more icebreaker ideas? Try our 5-minute team games or online icebreaker activities.

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