How to use get to know you questions in a group
Go around once with an easy question, then pick a fun one. With more than eight people, let the screen choose who answers: nobody has to volunteer, and nobody gets picked twice in a row.
Get to know you questions for any group
Good get to know you questions are easy to answer and hard to answer boringly. These are sorted by setting, from a new team at work to the first week of school, and every list plays live: the screen shows a question and picks who answers.
- 100 questions
- 5 lists
- Play any list live, free
- 01What's your name, and is there a story behind it?
- 02Where did you grow up, and what's one thing you miss about it?
- 03What's the best thing that happened to you this week?
- 04What's a hobby you picked up in the last few years?
- 05What was your first job?
- 06What's your go-to order at a coffee shop?
- 07What's the first app you open in the morning?
- 08What's the last show you binge-watched?
- 09What's one place you'd love to travel to next?
- 10Do you have any pets? Tell us about them.
- 11What's a skill you're secretly proud of?
- 12What's your favorite way to spend a Saturday?
- 13What's a food you could eat every day?
- 14What did you want to be when you grew up?
- 15What's the best concert you've ever been to?
- 16What's one thing you'd do if you had a free afternoon tomorrow?
- 17What's your favorite holiday, and why?
- 18What's a book or podcast you'd recommend to everyone here?
- 19What's the most interesting place you've lived?
- 20What's the best snack of all time?
- 21Which season fits your personality?
- 22What's the best advice you've ever gotten?
- 23What's one thing people usually get wrong about you?
- 24If you could learn any language overnight, which one?
- 25What's a tradition your family has that others might find odd?
Get to know you questions for work
Light and professional, for new teams and new hires.
- 26What's the best job you've ever had, and why?
- 27What's one thing you'd love to learn this year?
- 28What does your ideal workday look like?
- 29What's a tool or app you can't work without?
- 30What's the most unusual job you've ever had?
- 31Coffee, tea or neither?
- 32What's your favorite lunch spot near here?
- 33What did you study, and do you use it now?
- 34What's a work win you're proud of?
- 35What's the best team you've ever been on, and what made it great?
- 36What's something about your job your family doesn't understand?
- 37Do you work better with music or in silence?
- 38What's your favorite way to unwind after work?
- 39What's a skill you have that isn't on your resume?
- 40Who's someone you've learned a lot from at work?
- 41What's the best piece of feedback you've ever received?
- 42What's your dream vacation once the project's done?
- 43What's one thing that makes a meeting worth having?
- 44If you could swap jobs with anyone here for a day, whose?
- 45What's the first thing you do when you start your day?
Play it live
Play any of these live
Put a list on the TV. Everyone answers on their own phone, and the big screen shows what the room picked. Free, and nobody installs anything.
Start a game, freeGet to know you questions for students
Classroom friendly, for the first week of school.
- 46What's your favorite subject, and why?
- 47What's the best book you read this year?
- 48If you could have any pet, what would it be?
- 49What did you do this summer?
- 50What's your favorite thing to do after school?
- 51What's a talent you have that might surprise the class?
- 52If you could visit any place in the world, where would you go?
- 53What's your favorite movie?
- 54What's one thing you want to learn this year?
- 55What's your favorite food for lunch?
- 56Do you have any brothers or sisters?
- 57What's your favorite game to play with friends?
- 58If you could be any animal, which would you be?
- 59What job would you like to have someday?
- 60What's your favorite sport or activity?
- 61What makes you laugh the most?
- 62If you could meet any famous person, who would it be?
- 63What's the best day you've ever had?
- 64What's your favorite season?
- 65What superpower would you choose?
- 66What's the weirdest food combination you secretly love?
- 67If you were a kitchen appliance, which would you be?
- 68What song would play every time you walked into a room?
- 69What's your most useless talent?
- 70What would your pet's name be if it named itself?
- 71What fictional character would you want as a roommate?
- 72What's the strangest thing you believed as a kid?
- 73Which celebrity would play you in a movie about your life?
- 74What would your autobiography be called?
- 75What's the worst fashion trend you took part in?
- 76If you could only eat one color of food, which color?
- 77What's your karaoke song?
- 78What's the most embarrassing thing in your search history you'd admit to?
- 79If you could have any animal as a sidekick, what would it be?
- 80What's a hill you would die on?
- 81Which emoji do you use the most?
- 82If you opened a restaurant, what would it serve?
- 83What would you name a boat?
- 84What's an animal you're weirdly scared of?
- 85What's the best thing you've ever found on the ground?
Quick ones for the start of a meeting
One question, one minute each, then on to the agenda.
- 86In one word, how's your week going?
- 87What's the best thing you ate this week?
- 88What's one win from the last seven days, big or small?
- 89What's something in your background that has a story behind it?
- 90What song have you had on repeat lately?
- 91What's the weather like where you are, and do you approve?
- 92If today were a movie genre, which one would it be?
- 93What's one thing you're looking forward to this weekend?
- 94Coffee, tea or something else this morning?
- 95What's the last thing that made you laugh out loud?
- 96What did you do last weekend that you'd happily do again?
- 97What emoji sums up your mood right now?
- 98What are you watching right now?
- 99If you could be anywhere other than this meeting, where would you be?
- 100What's a small thing you're grateful for today?
How it works
Ready in about a minute
- 01
Open the game on a TV, a laptop or a projector. The screen shows a six-digit code and a QR code.
- 02
Everyone scans the QR or types the code at LivePartyGames.com. Nobody has to install an app or make an account.
- 03
Every phone answers in secret, then the big screen shows what the room picked.
Picking the right question
Ask for a story
"What was your first job?" beats "Do you like your job?"
Keep it safe
Skip money, politics and relationships with people you just met.
Keep it short
One minute per person keeps a big group moving.
Questions
Good to know
What are good get to know you questions?
Questions that ask for a short story, like your first job or the best trip you've taken. They're easy to answer and lead to follow-ups.
How many questions should we do?
One or two per person in a meeting. At a party or a class, a list of 20 fills about half an hour.
Can we play these on a TV?
Yes. Put a list on the TV and everyone joins with a code on their phone. The screen shows each question and picks who answers.
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Get the party going tonight
Open it on the TV, share the code, and ask the first question in under a minute.