170 Would You Rather Questions for Teens

Would You Rather Questions for Middle School

Lockers, lunch lines, science fairs and field trips. Good for advisory period or the first five minutes of class.

1. Would you rather have your locker right outside your first class or have a locker that opens on the first try every time?
2. Would you rather get homework in every class but never take a test or take tests in every class but never get homework?
3. Would you rather have a bus driver who plays great music or have a bus ride that is ten minutes shorter?
4. Would you rather spend a class trip night sleeping next to the shark tank at an aquarium or spend a class trip night at an outdoor science camp?
5. Would you rather pick the school lunch menu for a week or pick the music that plays in the halls between classes?
6. Would you rather have a teacher who starts every class with a joke or have a teacher who always lets you out two minutes early?
7. Would you rather win first place at the science fair with a project you found boring or come in last with a project you loved?
8. Would you rather run the mile in gym class every week or learn square dancing in gym class all semester?
9. Would you rather join the robotics club or join the school newspaper?
10. Would you rather have a five-minute passing period or have a fifteen-minute passing period and a longer school day?
11. Would you rather do every group project with your best friends or do every group project with classmates you barely know?
12. Would you rather eat lunch at 10:30 in the morning or eat lunch at 1:30 in the afternoon?
13. Would you rather have a textbook that reads itself out loud or have a notebook that organizes your notes for you?
14. Would you rather have a strict teacher who makes class fun or have a relaxed teacher whose class is a little boring?
15. Would you rather give a speech in front of the whole school or sing a solo at the school concert?
16. Would you rather keep the same seat in every class all year or pick a new seat every single day?
17. Would you rather share a locker with your best friend or have a tiny locker all to yourself?
18. Would you rather switch rooms every period or stay in one room and have the teachers come to you?
19. Would you rather ride a school bus with a snack machine or ride a school bus with a charger at every seat?
20. Would you rather have one huge project due each semester or have a small assignment due every day?
21. Would you rather take a class trip to a big city or take a class trip to a national park?
22. Would you rather read the morning announcements over the loudspeaker or design the school T-shirt for the year?
23. Would you rather have gym class first thing in the morning or have gym class right after lunch?
24. Would you rather start any club you want at your school or skip one subject you dislike for a whole year?
25. Would you rather have your teacher read your essay out loud to the class or read your essay out loud to the class yourself?
26. Would you rather run the lights for the school play or play a small part on stage?
27. Would you rather ride the bus for forty minutes with your friends or get a ten-minute car ride listening to your parent's music?
28. Would you rather forget your lunch at home or forget your homework at home?
29. Would you rather build a science fair volcano that erupts all over the judges or build a robot that stops working right before judging?
30. Would you rather compete in the school geography bee or compete in the school math contest?

Would You Rather Questions for Middle Schoolers

Life outside class for ages 11 to 14: friends, weekends, pets, sports and summer plans.

31. Would you rather have a sleepover at a friend's house with a pool or have a sleepover at a friend's house with a huge game room?
32. Would you rather spend the summer at a sleepaway camp or spend the summer at home with your friends nearby?
33. Would you rather have a dog that follows you everywhere or have a cat that sleeps on your bed every night?
34. Would you rather learn to play the drums or learn to play the electric guitar?
35. Would you rather make the travel team and practice five days a week or play on a rec team just for fun with your friends?
36. Would you rather beat a new video game in one weekend or spend a whole year finding every secret in it?
37. Would you rather have a weekend with no plans at all or have a weekend packed with fun plans?
38. Would you rather stay up as late as you want on weekends or sleep in as late as you want on weekends?
39. Would you rather build a treehouse with your friends or build a go-kart with your friends?
40. Would you rather choose what your family eats every Friday night or choose the family movie every Saturday night?
41. Would you rather play any song on the piano after hearing it once or remember the words to every song you hear?
42. Would you rather teach your dog ten new tricks or teach a parrot ten new words?
43. Would you rather go camping with your family every summer or visit a new city with your family every summer?
44. Would you rather earn money babysitting your younger cousins or earn money mowing lawns in your neighborhood?
45. Would you rather learn to skateboard really well or learn to ride a unicycle?
46. Would you rather play video games with friends online or play board games with friends in person?
47. Would you rather share a big room with your sibling or have a tiny room all to yourself?
48. Would you rather spend a Saturday at a trampoline park or spend a Saturday solving an escape room?
49. Would you rather make a short film with your friends or start a band with your friends?
50. Would you rather join the swim team or join a rock climbing team?
51. Would you rather spend two weeks at a coding camp or spend two weeks at an outdoor adventure camp?
52. Would you rather make breakfast for your family every Sunday or plan one family outing every month?
53. Would you rather go to your first concert with your friends or go to your first concert with your whole family?
54. Would you rather learn a dance routine that wows everyone or learn to beatbox like a pro?
55. Would you rather celebrate your birthday at home with five close friends or celebrate at a bowling alley with your whole class?
56. Would you rather walk the neighbors' dogs every afternoon or help at the animal shelter every Saturday?
57. Would you rather be the youngest player on a team of older kids or be the oldest player on a team of younger kids?
58. Would you rather learn to surf this summer or learn to water-ski this summer?
59. Would you rather get one hour of screen time a day and any snacks you want or get unlimited screen time and only healthy snacks?
60. Would you rather talk on the phone with your best friend for an hour or text back and forth with them all day?

Would You Rather Questions for High School Students

Driving, first jobs, college choices and packed schedules. These start real arguments about what matters most.

61. Would you rather get your driver's license at sixteen but have no car or wait until eighteen and get a car of your own?
62. Would you rather drive a spotless car with a broken radio or drive a messy car with an amazing sound system?
63. Would you rather work weekends at a movie theater or work weekends at an ice cream shop?
64. Would you rather go to a big college far from home or go to a small college close to home?
65. Would you rather be captain of a varsity team or be editor of the school yearbook?
66. Would you rather have school run from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. or have school run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.?
67. Would you rather play a different sport every season or play one sport all year round?
68. Would you rather give the speech at graduation or get the loudest cheer when your name is called at graduation?
69. Would you rather take the hardest classes and get B's or take easier classes and get straight A's?
70. Would you rather parallel park perfectly on the first try every time or never catch a red light?
71. Would you rather be a camp counselor all summer or intern at an office all summer?
72. Would you rather earn more at a boring summer job or earn less at a summer job with your friends?
73. Would you rather open the bakery at 5 a.m. every Saturday or close the pizza place at 11 p.m. every Saturday?
74. Would you rather go to college right after high school or take a gap year to work and travel?
75. Would you rather march in the band at the homecoming game or play in the homecoming game itself?
76. Would you rather have your name misspelled in the yearbook or have your senior quote printed under someone else's photo?
77. Would you rather be a lifeguard at the pool all summer or wait tables at a busy diner all summer?
78. Would you rather have open-campus lunch that lasts just thirty minutes or have an hour-long lunch that stays on campus?
79. Would you rather take a class on fixing cars or take a class on managing money?
80. Would you rather apply to just one dream college or apply to fifteen colleges to be safe?
81. Would you rather go to the state finals with the robotics team or go to the state finals with the debate team?
82. Would you rather have a pickup truck as your first car or have a tiny hatchback as your first car?
83. Would you rather pay for your own gas or pay for your own phone bill?
84. Would you rather play varsity and sit on the bench or play junior varsity and start every game?
85. Would you rather be named funniest in the senior superlatives or be named most likely to succeed?
86. Would you rather graduate a year early or spend senior year taking only fun electives?
87. Would you rather earn a full scholarship for your grades or earn a full scholarship for a sport?
88. Would you rather be the friend who drives everyone everywhere or never drive but always need a ride?
89. Would you rather learn to drive from your parents or learn to drive from a driving instructor?
90. Would you rather work part-time all school year or work full-time every summer and not at all during school?

Funny Would You Rather Questions for Teens

Silly enough for a laugh, not so silly that a 15-year-old rolls their eyes.

91. Would you rather have every text you send end with 'love, Mom' or have every text you send read out loud to the room?
92. Would you rather have your parents sit in on your classes for a day or have your parents join your team's practice for a week?
93. Would you rather start giggling every time a teacher says 'settle down' or hum out loud without noticing whenever you concentrate?
94. Would you rather have your grandma show your baby photos to every friend who visits or have your grandpa show every friend who visits his rock collection?
95. Would you rather wear a full suit to school every day or wear flip-flops in the snow all winter?
96. Would you rather only text in rhymes or only speak in the voice of a sports announcer?
97. Would you rather have your parents learn every dance you know or have your parents use every slang word you say?
98. Would you rather have your baby photo shown on the big screen at a school assembly or have your mom's voice message to you played over the school loudspeaker?
99. Would you rather give every class presentation in a whisper or give every class presentation standing on one foot?
100. Would you rather have a teacher who remembers everything you said in sixth grade or have a teacher who calls you by your older sibling's name all year?
101. Would you rather put ketchup on your cereal or put syrup on your pizza?
102. Would you rather have a teacher who raps every lesson or have a teacher who sings every instruction like an opera star?
103. Would you rather have a hype crew that cheers everything you do or have a narrator who describes everything you do out loud?
104. Would you rather show up to school on a Saturday by accident or show up to school in your pajamas by accident?
105. Would you rather have your dad chaperone your field trip and tell corny jokes all day or have your mom cheer at every game holding a giant sign with your name on it?
106. Would you rather fall asleep in class and snore loudly or fall asleep in class and wake up shouting 'I'm awake!'?
107. Would you rather be caught blinking in every group photo or be caught mid-sneeze in every group photo?
108. Would you rather have your music blast out loud in a quiet library or have your earbuds fall out during the loudest song?
109. Would you rather accidentally send a message meant for your friend to your teacher or accidentally send it to the whole family group chat?
110. Would you rather sit through ten minutes of the wrong class before noticing or wear your shirt inside out all day before anyone tells you?
111. Would you rather have a llama as your lab partner or have a goose as your gym partner?
112. Would you rather have your voice crack every time you answer a question in class or sneeze every time a teacher calls your name?
113. Would you rather have a duck follow you to every class or have a squirrel ride in your backpack all day?
114. Would you rather sing all your answers in math class or act out all your answers in English class?
115. Would you rather carry a tiny backpack made for a kindergartner or carry a backpack as big as a suitcase?

Deep Would You Rather Questions for Teens

Questions about friendship, courage and the kind of person you want to be. Best with two or three people and some time.

116. Would you rather be known as the friend who always shows up or be known as the friend who gives the best advice?
117. Would you rather speak up when something is unfair, even if people get annoyed or keep the peace and bring it up later in private?
118. Would you rather try out for something and not make it or never try and always wonder what would have happened?
119. Would you rather be really good at something nobody notices or be okay at something everyone praises?
120. Would you rather have a friend who is always honest with you or have a friend who always cheers you on?
121. Would you rather discover your passion at thirteen or discover your passion at thirty?
122. Would you rather find out who you are by traveling far away or find out who you are by staying close to the people who know you best?
123. Would you rather be the first in your family to do something big or carry on something your family has done for generations?
124. Would you rather get one piece of honest feedback from someone you admire or get ten compliments from people you barely know?
125. Would you rather be the person who starts new things or be the person who finishes them?
126. Would you rather be the captain everyone listens to or be the teammate everyone trusts?
127. Would you rather be proud of yourself when nobody else notices or have everyone proud of you when you don't feel it?
128. Would you rather admit you were wrong in front of everyone or quietly fix your mistake and never mention it?
129. Would you rather learn every lesson the hard way and remember it forever or be told every lesson and sometimes forget it?
130. Would you rather set big goals and plan every step or follow your curiosity wherever it leads?
131. Would you rather be the one who makes your friends laugh or be the one your friends call when they need to talk?
132. Would you rather have a coach who pushes you hard or have a coach who believes in you no matter what?
133. Would you rather be the new kid who gets a fresh start or be the kid everyone has known since kindergarten?
134. Would you rather change your mind easily when you learn something new or stick to your opinions no matter what?
135. Would you rather win something big on your own or lose something big together with your friends?
136. Would you rather have a talent that comes easily or have a talent you earned through years of practice?
137. Would you rather spend a year helping others far from home or spend a year building your own skills at home?
138. Would you rather know exactly what you want to do with your life right now or take your time and figure it out slowly?
139. Would you rather always tell the truth, even when it's awkward or always be kind, even if it means leaving some things unsaid?
140. Would you rather be the best in a small school or be average in a school full of stars?

Would You Rather Questions for Teens About the Future

Careers, cities, skills and inventions. A low-pressure way to talk about what comes after graduation.

141. Would you rather have a job that lets you travel the world or have a job that gets you home every night?
142. Would you rather work for a big company with lots of perks or start your own business from scratch?
143. Would you rather invent something everyone uses every day or discover something that changes science forever?
144. Would you rather learn to fly a plane or learn to sail a boat?
145. Would you rather live in another country for a year after high school or live in a different state every month for a year?
146. Would you rather own a self-driving car or own a jetpack for short trips?
147. Would you rather speak five languages or play five instruments?
148. Would you rather work outdoors in any weather or work indoors in a beautiful building?
149. Would you rather design video games for a living or design roller coasters for a living?
150. Would you rather live in a smart home that talks to you or live off the grid in a cabin you built yourself?
151. Would you rather travel to a new country every year or live abroad for five years straight?
152. Would you rather work with animals every day or work with brand-new technology every day?
153. Would you rather go to college for four years or learn a trade and start working at eighteen?
154. Would you rather invent a new kind of transportation or invent a new kind of food?
155. Would you rather build your own house or design a whole new town?
156. Would you rather work on a team that cleans up the oceans or work on a team that builds the first homes on Mars?
157. Would you rather be able to build any app you can imagine or be able to fix any car that rolls into your garage?
158. Would you rather have a job that doesn't exist yet or have a classic job like teacher or firefighter?
159. Would you rather see flying cars become normal or see underwater cities become normal?
160. Would you rather drive across the country after graduation or backpack across another continent?

Road Trip Would You Rather Questions for Teens

Ten picks from our road trip deck that teens actually answer: time travel, monster trucks and what to do with a found $20. The full deck has 60 cards.

161. Would you rather drive through a desert with no radio or through snowy mountains with only one song on repeat?
162. Would you rather have a window that shows any place in the world or a sunroof that shows outer space?
163. Would you rather travel back in time to see dinosaurs or forward in time to see flying cars?
164. Would you rather go on a road trip with a famous singer or a famous athlete?
165. Would you rather have a camera that takes a photo of every animal you pass or a notebook that writes down every funny thing someone says?
166. Would you rather drive a monster truck for a day or a race car for one lap?
167. Would you rather find a $20 bill at a rest stop or a message in a bottle on a beach?
168. Would you rather travel with a backpack that's always full of your favorite snacks or shoes that never get tired?
169. Would you rather know the answer to every trivia question or always win at card games?
170. Would you rather have a car horn that plays any song or headlights that can change color?

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