What is the this or that game?

A fast icebreaker where someone names two options and you pick one, with no explaining required. It works one-on-one to get to know someone, or in a big group as a loud debate machine. There's no score and no wrong answer, just the pick.

What are some good this or that questions?

The reliable shapes are everyday preferences (coffee or tea, beach or mountains), food fights (pizza or tacos), and hard toss-ups (famous but broke or rich but unknown). A good one splits the room instead of pointing everyone at the same answer.

What are good funny this or that questions?

The funniest are the silly, would-you-rather style ones: fight one horse-sized duck or a hundred duck-sized horses, sneeze glitter or burp bubbles, legs as short as your fingers. There's a full set of twenty-two funny this or that questions above.

Is this or that the same as would you rather?

They're close cousins. This or that is a quick binary pick between two everyday things (coffee or tea); would you rather usually poses two bigger, stranger scenarios you have to weigh. This or that is faster as a warm-up, would you rather sparks longer debate.

How many people do you need to play this or that?

Two is enough to learn someone fast, and it shines in any size group. It's a reliable icebreaker for parties, road trips, first dates, classrooms, and team calls, since more people just means more sides to argue.

Where can I get a random this or that question?

Load any set on this page onto the this or that wheel and spin: it picks a prompt at exactly equal chances and drops the same one into a share link, so a remote group can't quietly re-spin the awkward one away.

PARTY GAMES · THIS OR THAT

120 this or that questions, from classic to hard

PUBLISHED JUL 15 · 2026 DATA REFRESHED AT EACH BUILD

By the PlaySpinWheel editorial team

120 this or that questions on one wheel: pick a set, spin, and everyone answers at once.

This or that is the fastest icebreaker there is: name two options, and you pick one, no explaining unless you want to. Here are 120 this or that questions sorted into classic openers, funny would-you-rather style prompts, a food edition, hard impossible choices, a friends round, and a Black culture edition.

Read straight down the lists, or load any set onto the spinner wheel and let the spin pick the next one, because a list lets people skip the question that hits too close and a wheel does not.

How do you play this or that?

Someone names two options and you pick one, fast. That's the whole game. Sit in a circle, read a prompt as a straight either-or, and go around so everyone answers the same one, or make it a race where the first to shout a side wins the round. There's no board and no wrong answer, only the quiet horror of learning your friend is team pineapple pizza. Want the wheel to pick each prompt so nobody stalls? Spin the this or that game.

What are good this or that questions?

Good this or that questions split the room close to down the middle: half the fun is watching the table divide. Ask something where everyone picks the same side and it's over in a second; ask a genuine toss-up and you get a two-minute argument. These twenty-two classic this or that questions are the openers that work with almost any crowd:

Coffee or tea?
Beach or mountains?
Morning person or night owl?
Cats or dogs?
Sweet or savory?
Books or movies?
Summer or winter?
Call or text?
City or countryside?
Window seat or aisle?
Early bird or late riser?
Save it or spend it?
Shower in the morning or at night?
Plan everything or wing it?
Sneakers or sandals?
Ocean or pool?
Cook at home or eat out?
Sunrise or sunset?
Big party or small gathering?
Road trip or flight?
Silence or background noise?
Keep it or throw it out?

What are the best this or that questions?

The best this or that questions cross every mood on this page, so a round never feels one-note. Pulled from all six sets below, here are ten that rarely miss whoever's playing:

Coffee or tea?
Pizza or tacos?
Beach or mountains?
Cats or dogs?
Save it or spend it?
Read minds or predict the future?
Sweet or savory?
Be famous but broke or rich but unknown?
Text back in five seconds or five hours?
Morning person or night owl?

That shortlist works because it mixes the harmless (coffee or tea) with the genuinely hard (famous but broke or rich but unknown), so quiet players and debaters both get a turn. Read the full lists below for more of each, or spin ten of the best and let the wheel set the order.

Funny this or that questions

Whether you call them funny this or that questions or fun this or that questions, these are the silly, would-you-rather style prompts that get the biggest reactions: duck-sized horses, glitter sneezes, and legs as short as your fingers. Nobody's dignity survives, which is the point:

Fight one horse-sized duck or a hundred duck-sized horses?
Always be ten minutes late or twenty minutes early?
Sneeze glitter or burp bubbles?
Have fingers as long as your legs or legs as short as your fingers?
Only whisper or only shout?
Always sing instead of talk or dance everywhere you walk?
Have a permanent clown nose or permanent clown shoes?
Taste every color or hear every smell?
Fart confetti or sweat maple syrup?
Wear wet socks forever or a hat two sizes too small?
Have a rewind button or a pause button for life?
Speak every language or play every instrument, but badly?
Have a tail you cannot control or ears that flap when you lie?
Only eat with a spoon or only eat with your hands?
Live in a treehouse or a submarine?
Have hiccups for a year or a runny nose for a year?
Be able to talk to animals or read minds, one at a time?
Always have a song stuck in your head or an itch you cannot reach?
Ride a giant snail to work or a slightly angry ostrich?
Never use a phone again or never use a fork again?
Sound like a cartoon character or move like one?
Be invisible but naked or fly but only two feet off the ground?

This or that: food edition

The food this or that round is the safest way to start a fight at dinner. Everyone has an opinion and nobody's is correct. These twenty-two this or that food questions are pure, low-stakes chaos:

Pizza or tacos?
Sweet breakfast or savory breakfast?
Burger or fried chicken?
Chocolate or vanilla?
Fries or onion rings?
Pancakes or waffles?
Coffee or energy drink?
Spicy food or mild food?
Ketchup or hot sauce?
Ice cream or cake?
Ramen or pasta?
Crunchy peanut butter or smooth?
Sushi or a steak?
Cheese pull or a crispy crust?
Breakfast for dinner or dinner for breakfast?
Milk chocolate or dark chocolate?
Soda or lemonade?
Cookies or brownies?
Thin crust or deep dish?
Fresh fruit or a candy bar?
Garlic bread or breadsticks?
Iced coffee or hot coffee?

Hard this or that questions

Hard this or that questions swap quick picks for real dilemmas, the kind where the table goes quiet before anyone answers. Both options genuinely cost you something, so there's no lazy pick:

Never travel again or never eat your favorite food again?
Lose all your photos or all your messages?
Read minds or predict the future?
Be famous but broke or rich but unknown?
Redo the last five years or skip the next five?
Always know when someone lies or always get away with lying?
Give up music or give up movies for life?
Be the smartest person in the room or the funniest?
Have more time or more money?
Never feel physical pain or never feel embarrassed?
Live to 100 in poor health or 70 in perfect health?
Lose the ability to lie or the ability to keep a secret?
Know how you die or when you die?
Speak your mind freely or read everyone else's mind?
Restart your career or restart your relationships?
Be feared or be forgotten?
Have a rewind button you can use once or a pause button you can use daily?
Give up your phone for a year or your favorite person for a month?

This or that questions for friends

Playing with friends you've known for years changes the game, because the answers are already half-known and the pushback is the fun. These eighteen this or that questions for friends are built on group-chat habits and shared history:

Text back in five seconds or five hours?
Always host or always be the guest?
Split the bill evenly or pay for exactly what you ordered?
Movie night in or a night out?
Group chat or one big call?
Plan the trip or just show up for it?
Give brutal honesty or gentle white lies?
Arrive first or arrive fashionably late?
Be the loud one or the quiet one in the group?
Karaoke or board games?
Lend money you might not get back or say no and stay honest?
Keep a friend's secret or keep the peace?
Concert tickets or a spontaneous road trip?
Be the planner or the follower?
Cancel plans by text or power through when you're tired?
Reply to every story or lurk in silence?
Match energy or set the energy?
Long voice notes or quick replies?

This or that questions: Black culture edition

The this or that black questions round is the cookout debate you already know by heart: the shows, the sides, the card games, the playlists. Warm, loud, and impossible to settle. Eighteen to get the whole table talking:

Cookout or family reunion?
Martin or The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?
Mac and cheese as a main or a side?
Spades or dominoes?
Popeyes or a home-cooked plate?
Sweet tea or red drink?
Line dance or a two-step?
Old-school R and B or new-school?
Peach cobbler or banana pudding?
Verzuz or a live DJ set?
Church shoes or fresh sneakers?
Family group chat or the cousins' group chat?
A good barbershop story or a good kitchen-table story?
Beyonce era or Rihanna era?
Fried fish Friday or Sunday dinner?
Soul Train line or an electric slide?
Auntie's playlist or the cookout playlist?
New Edition or Jodeci?

Want a version built for one crowd? There's a clean set of this or that questions for kids, a date-night set of this or that questions for couples, and a grown-up this or that questions for adults round. Hosting a shower or a holiday party? The printable this or that game has the party editions ready to hand out.

How do you play this or that over text?

This or that is built for the group chat. Drop one either-or and watch a dead thread come back to life arguing about whether cereal is soup. For a long-distance game night, screenshot a prompt from the wheel into the chat, everyone replies with their pick, and the loudest disagreement wins. It also makes a great slow-burn way to get to know someone new: send one a day and let the answers stack up.

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How do you pick the right this or that questions?

Start with the classics to warm the room up, move to funny once people are laughing, and save the hard round for the crowd that likes to argue. Match the set to who's in the room and it never falls flat. And when nobody wants to read the next prompt, the this or that wheel picks it at provably equal chances, or step up to bigger dilemmas with the would you rather game.

Fair questions

What is the this or that game?: A fast icebreaker where someone names two options and you pick one, with no explaining required. It works one-on-one to get to know someone, or in a big group as a loud debate machine. There's no score and no wrong answer, just the pick.
What are some good this or that questions?: The reliable shapes are everyday preferences (coffee or tea, beach or mountains), food fights (pizza or tacos), and hard toss-ups (famous but broke or rich but unknown). A good one splits the room instead of pointing everyone at the same answer.
What are good funny this or that questions?: The funniest are the silly, would-you-rather style ones: fight one horse-sized duck or a hundred duck-sized horses, sneeze glitter or burp bubbles, legs as short as your fingers. There's a full set of twenty-two funny this or that questions above.
Is this or that the same as would you rather?: They're close cousins. This or that is a quick binary pick between two everyday things (coffee or tea); would you rather usually poses two bigger, stranger scenarios you have to weigh. This or that is faster as a warm-up, would you rather sparks longer debate.
How many people do you need to play this or that?: Two is enough to learn someone fast, and it shines in any size group. It's a reliable icebreaker for parties, road trips, first dates, classrooms, and team calls, since more people just means more sides to argue.
Where can I get a random this or that question?: Load any set on this page onto the this or that wheel and spin: it picks a prompt at exactly equal chances and drops the same one into a share link, so a remote group can't quietly re-spin the awkward one away.