Flatmates quiz: how well do you know the people you live with?
Twenty questions about dishes, heating, bins, guests and the toilet roll. Answer about yourself, then see which of your flatmates has noticed how you really live.
How to play this one
- Do it as a household, with everyone sending their own link, and compare the leaderboard.
- Treat it as a friendly way to spot habits that annoy people before they become arguments.
- It is twenty questions, so give it five minutes on a quiet evening.
All the questions
Answer about yourself. Your friend or partner guesses.
1. How long do your dishes sit in the sink?
Washed right away · Until the evening · Until the sink is full · Until someone says something
2. What time is too late for loud music?
9 pm · 11 pm · Midnight · It's never too late
3. Which shared food do you treat as fair game?
Anything in the fridge door · Only what's labelled shared · Milk and nothing else · Everything, sorry
4. How warm do you keep the heating?
Off, wear a jumper · Just enough · Toasty · Tropical
5. How often do you take the bins out?
Before they're full · When they're full · When they overflow · When asked, twice
6. How long is your shower?
Five minutes · Fifteen minutes · A full album · Until the hot water runs out
7. What are you like in the morning?
Chatty · Quiet until coffee · Not to be spoken to · Already out of the door
8. How do you feel about guests?
The more the merrier · Fine with a heads-up · Weekends only · Rather not
9. Where do your shoes live?
On the rack · By the door, roughly · Wherever they came off · All over the flat
10. How clean is your room?
Spotless · Tidy enough · Organised chaos · The door stays closed
11. What do you do when the toilet roll runs out?
Replace it at once · Leave the new roll on top · Use the last of it and say nothing · Buy a bulk pack
12. How would you split the bills?
Evenly, always · By who used what · Take turns paying · With a spreadsheet
13. What's your laundry habit?
Washed and folded by evening · Left in the machine for hours · On the drying rack for a week · Worn straight from the dryer
14. How do you handle a problem with a flatmate?
Say it straight away · Drop hints · Send a long message · Say nothing and stew
15. What's your cooking style?
Batch cooking on Sunday · Something fresh every night · The same three meals · Takeaway
16. What's your fridge shelf like?
Neat and labelled · Full of leftovers · Mostly sauces · Empty
17. How do you deal with your alarm?
Up at the first ring · One snooze · Five snoozes · Sleeping straight through it
18. How do you use the living room?
Film nights for everyone · Taking over the TV · Working at the table · Hardly ever there
19. How do you feel about a cleaning rota?
Wrote it · Follows it · Follows it, a week late · What rota?
20. What would you never share?
A towel · A toothbrush mug · The good pan · The streaming password