Icebreaker questions for friends
A good icebreaker is easy to answer and leads to a story. These thirty work with friends who have known each other for years and with a group that is still getting to know each other.
Try one at the start of an evening, in a group chat, or on a long drive.
Easy openers
- What is the best thing you have eaten this week?
- What is on your phone's home screen that would surprise us?
- Which film do you always rewatch?
- What was your first concert?
- If you could live anywhere for a year, where would it be?
- What is your go-to comfort show?
- What would your walk-out song be?
- Which childhood snack do you miss?
Funny
- What is the worst gift you have ever given or got?
- What is the most useless thing you own?
- What is your worst habit on a group trip?
- What was your most embarrassing moment at school?
- What would your autobiography be called?
- If you could swap lives with someone here for a day, who would it be?
- What is your most irrational fear?
- What is your worst cooking disaster?
Stories
- What is the best trip you have ever taken?
- What is the luckiest thing that has ever happened to you?
- Who is the funniest person you know?
- What is the best job you have ever had?
- What is something you did that you never thought you would?
- What was your favourite thing about growing up?
A little deeper
- What is something you have changed your mind about?
- What do you value most in a friend?
- What do you want more of next year?
- What is a small thing that always makes your day better?
Play a quiz instead
Want something you can play instead of just ask? Answer a quiz about yourself and let your friends guess.