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Icebreaker Questions

One light question at the start of a meeting, a class or a group chat gets everybody talking. The answers are short, there is no winner, and people learn something small about each other.

Players
2 or more
Time
5 to 10 minutes
You need
Nothing
Ages
12 and above
Type
Office games and icebreakers

How to play

  1. Pick one question. Tap "Pick one for me" below if you cannot decide.
  2. Answer it yourself first, in one or two lines, to show how short an answer can be.
  3. Go around the room, or ask everyone in the chat to reply.
  4. Thank people and move on. Five minutes is enough.

Ready message to start the game

Question of the day: What small thing made you smile this week? One line each. I will go first!

Questions to start with

  1. What small thing made you smile this week?
  2. Which dish reminds you of your childhood?
  3. What was your first job or first pocket money task?
  4. Which skill would you like to learn in one day, if you could?
  5. What is the best advice someone has given you?
  6. Which place in India would you visit tomorrow, if tickets were free?
  7. What is one thing on your desk that has a story?
  8. Tea, coffee or something else, and how do you take it?
  9. Which subject did you like most in school?
  10. What is your favourite way to spend a rainy evening?
  11. Which festival do you wait for all year?
  12. What is one app on your phone you could not do without?
  13. What was the last thing you fixed with your own hands?
  14. Which song can you never skip?
  15. If you had one extra hour every day, how would you use it?
  16. What is one food you can cook really well?
  17. Which teacher do you still remember, and why?
  18. What is the nicest thing a stranger has done for you?
  19. Morning walk or evening walk?
  20. What would you name your autobiography?

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