Tap the card or swipe for the next question, or press Read aloud and the phone asks it. Each card is one quick pick, like beach or mountains, and everyone answers in under three seconds. Sixty cards, no sign-up, and the deck works offline once the page has loaded. For questions beyond the car, see our full list of this or that questions, including icebreakers, food and grown-up picks.
How to play with this deck
A passenger holds the phone and reads the card. Everyone answers at once: count “three, two, one” and say your pick together, so nobody copies the loudest person in the car. No “both,” no “neither,” no explaining. Then swipe to the next card.
That speed is the whole point. This or That is the warm-up game: forty cards go by in ten minutes, and the car learns who is a waffle person without anyone giving a speech. If you want reasons and arguments, switch to the Would You Rather deck once everyone is talking.
The driver can play every round. The passenger reads, the driver answers out loud, and nobody needs to look at the screen.
Scoring for couples and friends
Played straight, nobody wins. Add a score when two people want to find out how well they know each other:
- Guess first. Before your partner answers, say which one they’ll pick. A right guess is a point.
- Match. Both answer at once. Every match scores a point for the pair. Twenty cards, then compare your total with the last trip.
- Car majority. Each player guesses which option most of the car will pick. Right guesses score.
The This or That rules page has more versions, including one for two players on a long highway stretch.
Which cards start the best arguments
Some cards are over in a second. Others run for twenty minutes. The long ones are almost always about the trip itself: scenic route or fastest route, plan every stop or wing it, map or GPS. Save those for when the car has gone quiet.
Kids go straight for the animal and food cards: dolphins or sea turtles, pancakes or waffles, cows or horses. Teens care about seats and music. Adults end up debating whether a short trip every month beats one long trip a year, which is really a question about how the next vacation gets planned.
Keep it fresh on a long drive
Play one round of ten to fifteen cards, then switch games. Coming back an hour later works better than grinding through all sixty in a row. Shuffle before each round so the same favorites don’t always lead.
When a card gets a laugh, let the youngest player make up a new pair in the same style. “Gas station hot dog or gas station pizza?” is a fine card, and inventing them is half the fun for a 7-year-old.
For deeper conversation once the quick picks run out, try the road trip questions for couples.