125 truth or dare questions: funny, clean and made for online chats

Truth or dare is one of the oldest party games, and it still works because it mixes two things people love: stories and silliness. You pick “truth” and answer a question honestly, or pick “dare” and do a small challenge.

Everything below is clean and works with friends or with someone you have just met. There are separate dares for playing in person and for playing over video or text, where you cannot hand anyone a spoon of mustard.

Rules that keep it fun

• Anyone can pass. Agree at the start that a player can skip any question or dare, no explanation needed.
• Nothing dangerous, nothing cruel. Dares should be silly, not risky or humiliating.
• With strangers online, keep personal details out. Never ask for or share a real name, address, school, workplace, phone number or social media account, and never dare someone to show or send anything private.
• Take turns fairly. Whoever answers or completes a dare chooses the next player.

Funny truth questions

1. What is the most embarrassing thing you have ever said to a teacher or boss?
2. What is the weirdest food combination you secretly enjoy?
3. What is the silliest thing you have ever cried about?
4. What is the strangest thing you have ever searched online?
5. Have you ever waved back at someone who was waving at someone else?
6. What is the worst haircut you have ever had?
7. What is a song you know every word to but would never admit to liking?
8. What is the most useless thing you are really good at?
9. What is the funniest way you have ever hurt yourself?
10. What is the longest you have gone without showering?
11. What is the most childish thing you still do?
12. Have you ever pretended to be on the phone to avoid someone?
13. What is the worst gift you have ever received, and did you pretend to love it?
14. What is the laziest thing you have done this week?
15. What is the dumbest argument you have ever won?
16. What is your most irrational fear?
17. Have you ever laughed at the wrong moment? What happened?
18. What is the weirdest dream you remember?
19. What would your friends say is your most annoying habit?
20. What is the most money you have spent on something you never used?
21. What is a word you always spell wrong?
22. Have you ever fallen asleep somewhere you really should not have?
23. What is the cringiest thing you posted online when you were younger?
24. What is a film everyone loves that you secretly find boring?
25. What is the strangest thing you have ever eaten?

Truth questions for getting to know someone

1. What is something you are proud of that you rarely mention?
2. What is the best advice anyone has ever given you?
3. What is a small thing that instantly makes your day better?
4. What is a skill you wish you had learned as a kid?
5. What is the best trip you have ever taken?
6. What is one thing on your bucket list you have not told many people?
7. What is a hobby you started and then quit?
8. What is your favourite memory from the last year?
9. Who was your hero growing up?
10. What is the last thing that made you laugh out loud?
11. What is something you changed your mind about recently?
12. What is a compliment you still remember?
13. What would you do with a completely free day?
14. What is a book, film or series that changed how you see something?
15. What do most people get wrong about you?
16. What is your favourite way to spend a rainy day?
17. What is the bravest thing you have ever done?
18. What is a tradition from your family or country you love?
19. What is one habit you are trying to build?
20. If you could master one language overnight, which would it be?
21. What is something you are looking forward to?
22. What job did you want when you were ten?
23. What is the most interesting place you have ever lived or stayed?
24. What is the kindest thing a stranger has ever done for you?
25. What is a question you wish people asked you more often?

Deep truth questions

Save these for when the game has warmed up. There are more in deep questions to ask.

1. What is a moment that changed the direction of your life?
2. What is something you have forgiven but not forgotten?
3. When do you feel most like yourself?
4. What is a fear you have overcome?
5. What would you tell your younger self in one sentence?
6. What does a good friend mean to you?
7. What is something you want to be remembered for?
8. What is the hardest thing you have ever had to say to someone?
9. What are you most grateful for right now?
10. What is a dream you gave up on, and do you miss it?
11. What makes you feel understood?
12. What is one thing you would change about the world if you could?
13. What is a lesson you learned the hard way?
14. What does success look like to you?
15. What is something you wish you had said to someone but never did?

Dares for playing in person

1. Talk in an accent of the group’s choice for the next three rounds.
2. Do your best impression of another player.
3. Let the group choose a new ringtone or wallpaper for your phone for the rest of the game.
4. Sing the chorus of a song chosen by the person on your left.
5. Eat a spoonful of a condiment chosen by the group (skip if you have allergies).
6. Do ten squats while saying the alphabet backwards.
7. Speak only in questions until your next turn.
8. Balance a spoon on your nose for ten seconds.
9. Tell a joke. If nobody laughs, tell another.
10. Let someone draw a moustache on you with washable pen.
11. Walk like a model across the room and back.
12. Wear a sock on one hand until the end of the game.
13. Do your best dance move for thirty seconds with no music.
14. Invent a new handshake with the player on your right.
15. Read the last text you sent out loud (only if you are happy to).
16. Say something nice about every player.
17. Keep a straight face for one minute while everyone tries to make you laugh.
18. Try to lick your elbow.
19. Narrate everything you do like a nature documentary for two minutes.
20. Hold a plank until your next turn, or thirty seconds, whichever is shorter.
21. Do a dramatic reading of the ingredients on the nearest packet.
22. Let the group give you a nickname for the rest of the night.
23. Try to juggle three items the group chooses (nothing breakable).
24. Say a tongue twister three times fast.
25. Talk like a pirate until your next turn.

Dares for video chat

These work on a camera with nothing more than what is in the room. Keep the camera on your face, not your surroundings, if you do not want to show where you are.

1. Show the funniest face you can make and hold it for five seconds.
2. Do an impression of a famous cartoon character.
3. Sing a line from the last song you listened to.
4. Find an object near you and try to sell it to the other person in thirty seconds.
5. Talk in slow motion for one minute.
6. Do your best robot dance.
7. Pretend to be a news presenter and report on what you ate today.
8. Say the alphabet as fast as you can.
9. Balance a book on your head and keep talking for a minute.
10. Make up a short rap about the other person’s favourite food.
11. Act out a film scene without words and let the other person guess it.
12. Do five jumping jacks and count them in another language.
13. Wear something on your head for the next three rounds, like a towel or a hat.
14. Tell a story using only emojis you describe out loud.
15. Try to touch your nose with your tongue.
16. Draw a quick portrait of the other person and hold it up to the camera.
17. Speak in rhymes until your next turn.
18. Do a dramatic weather forecast for your room.
19. Try not to blink for thirty seconds.
20. Laugh like a villain for ten seconds.

Dares for text chat

1. Describe your day using only five emojis.
2. Write a two-line poem about the other person’s favourite hobby.
3. Type the next three messages using only words that start with the same letter.
4. Tell the story of your morning as if it were an action film.
5. Invent a new word and give its definition.
6. Write a fake review of the last thing you ate.
7. Send your next message without using the letter “e”.
8. Describe your dream house in exactly ten words.
9. Write a very dramatic weather forecast.
10. Make up a slogan for the other person, based on what you know so far.
11. Type a tongue twister and challenge the other person to say it aloud.
12. Describe a film plot badly and let the other person guess it.
13. Answer the next question as if you were a pirate.
14. Write a haiku about the chat so far.
15. Tell a joke. The other person rates it out of ten.

Where to play with someone new

Truth or dare is a great way to break the ice with a stranger, as long as both of you keep it light. In a random video chat or text chat, suggest one round and let the other person choose truth or dare first. If they are not into it, move on: would you rather questions and this or that questions are easier warm-ups. If anyone pushes for something private or explicit, end the chat and use Report or Block.