Updated October 22, 2026

Thanksgiving Would You Rather Questions

80 would you rather questions for the Thanksgiving table, sorted in the order the day goes: the kitchen, dinner, pie, the afternoon and the family. They are all safe to read with grandparents and kids in the room. For live voting on other questions, open the would you rather game.

Stuck for a question? Let the phone choose one from the lists below.

How to play would you rather at Thanksgiving

Pick a reader. Whoever is sitting closest to the phone reads one question out loud.
Everyone answers at once on a count of three: raise a fork for the first option, a spoon for the second.
The losing side explains itself. Keep it to one sentence each, or dinner gets cold.
Pass the phone to the next person for the next question.

Forks and spoons make the vote easy to see across a long table, and nobody has to stand up.

All 80 Thanksgiving would you rather questions

Each group fits one part of the day. Start at the top while the turkey is still in the oven and work down.

Jump to Cooking At the table Pie and leftovers The afternoon Family Silly ones

Before dinner: the cooking and the kitchen

For the hours before anyone sits down: the oven, the drive over and the person who keeps opening the oven door. 14 questions.

Peel a mountain of potatoes by yourself or chop every onion for every dish?
Cook the whole meal with only one oven or grill the whole meal outside in the cold?
Get up at 5 a.m. to put the turkey in or eat dinner at 9 p.m. because the turkey ran late?
Drive eight hours to get there in holiday traffic or sit through two flight delays to get there?
Arrive two hours early and get handed a peeler or arrive after everyone has started eating?
Cook in a tiny kitchen with five helpers or cook in a huge kitchen with nobody to help?
Cook from a recipe card nobody can read or try a new recipe for the first time that day?
Find the turkey still frozen on Thursday morning or run out of butter when every store is closed?
Taste-test every dish and be full by dinner or taste nothing until everyone sits down?
Cook next to someone who keeps opening the oven or cook next to someone who keeps moving your stuff?
Bring a dish that nobody touches or bring a dish that runs out before you get any?
Shop for groceries the night before Thanksgiving or wash every dish after Thanksgiving dinner?
Make every dish from scratch or pick up the whole dinner ready-made from a store?
Ride six hours in the middle seat of the car or ride six hours with the family dog on your lap?

At the table: turkey, sides and seating

Turkey, sides, gravy and where everyone sits. These are the ones that start the loudest arguments at dinner. 18 questions.

Carve the turkey with everyone watching or give the thank-you speech with everyone listening?
Only eat white meat or only eat dark meat?
Have mashed potatoes with no gravy or have gravy with no mashed potatoes?
Never eat stuffing again or never eat sweet potato casserole again?
Eat canned cranberry sauce with the ridges or eat homemade cranberry sauce with whole berries?
Sit at the kids' table as an adult or sit at the grown-ups' table as the only kid?
Sit next to someone who asks a hundred questions or sit next to someone who says nothing all dinner?
Share what you are thankful for first or go last after everyone takes the good answers?
Eat dry turkey with amazing sides or eat perfect turkey with boring sides?
Eat off fancy china you are scared to chip or eat off paper plates that bend under the gravy?
Host twenty people with one bathroom or host six people with no dining table?
Swap the turkey for a giant ham or swap the turkey for a big pot of chili?
Eat green bean casserole without the crispy onions or eat mac and cheese without the crispy top?
Say what you are thankful for out loud or write it on a card someone reads aloud?
Sit closest to the food and pass everything or sit farthest away and wait for every dish?
Eat only sides this year or eat only turkey this year?
Have a potluck where nobody plans who brings what or have one cook who decides every dish?
Put every phone in a basket during dinner or keep your phones but leave the TV off?

Pie, dessert and leftovers

For the pause between dinner and dessert, plus a few about the fridge full of leftovers. 14 questions.

Have pie with way too much whipped cream or have pie with no topping at all?
Eat only the crust of every pie or eat only the filling of every pie?
Get a thin slice of every pie or get a huge slice of just one?
Bake a pie that looks perfect but tastes bland or bake a pie that looks wrecked but tastes amazing?
Have cold pie for breakfast on Friday or have a warm turkey sandwich for breakfast on Friday?
Eat dessert first and dinner second or wait two hours after dinner for dessert?
Give up pecan pie forever or give up pumpkin pie forever?
Take the last slice of pie and feel everyone watching or give it away and think about it all night?
Be the official pie cutter or be the official whipped cream sprayer?
Bake pies with a little kid who wants to help or bake pies alone in total quiet?
Get a slice with a soggy bottom or get a slice with a burnt edge?
Try a brand-new pie flavor this year or have the exact pie you have every year?
Have a fridge so full the door will not close or have a fridge so empty you order takeout Friday?
Turn the leftover turkey into soup or turn the leftover turkey into tacos?

Parades, football and the afternoon

The parade, the game, the nap and the long walk. Good for the slow part of the afternoon on the couch. 12 questions.

Watch the parade on TV in your pajamas or stand in the cold since dawn to see it live?
Watch the game with people who care way too much or watch it with people who keep asking about the rules?
Nap on the couch right after dinner or go for a long walk right after dinner?
Play backyard football with the cousins or referee backyard football with the cousins?
Play a board game that lasts four hours or play a card game that ends in ten minutes?
Lose a board game to a seven-year-old or beat a seven-year-old and hear about it all night?
Run a turkey trot in the cold or sleep in until the parade is over?
Miss the last quarter to help with the dishes or watch the last quarter and miss the first pie?
Play charades with the whole family or play a quiet card game with one cousin?
Be the only one who cares about the game or be the only one who does not?
Go Black Friday shopping at midnight for the deals or stay home and pay full price later?
Hold the TV remote all afternoon or get the comfiest spot on the couch?

Family, guests and traditions

Hosting, guests, photos and traditions. Gentle enough that nobody at the table feels picked on. 12 questions.

Host and never have to pack a bag or be a guest and sleep on an air mattress?
Have Friendsgiving with takeout and board games or have family Thanksgiving with the full menu?
Retake the family photo twelve times or keep the first one even though someone blinked?
Start a brand-new family tradition or keep every old tradition exactly the same?
Hear the same family story for the tenth year or hear a family story nobody has ever told before?
Have a big gathering of forty relatives or have a quiet dinner for four?
Let the kids plan the whole menu or let Grandpa plan the whole menu?
Learn the family recipe and make it every year or never learn it and hope somebody else does?
Share a bedroom with three cousins or sleep on the couch in the busy living room?
Bring someone new to meet the whole family or be the family meeting someone new?
Wear matching turkey sweaters for the family photo or dress up fancy for the family photo?
Stay with family for five days or stay for dinner and drive home that night?

Silly Thanksgiving would you rather questions

Talking turkeys and houses made of dinner rolls. Hand these to the kids’ table and let them read. 10 questions.

Have a turkey that talks during dinner or have a pie that sings when you cut it?
Sleep on a mattress made of mashed potatoes or sleep under a blanket made of pie crust?
Have every faucet in your house pour cranberry sauce or have every faucet in your house pour gravy?
Keep a pet turkey that follows you to school or keep a pet turkey that gobbles whenever a phone rings?
Live in a house made of dinner rolls or live in a house carved out of a giant pumpkin?
Float above the parade holding a giant balloon or march in the parade playing the tuba?
Gobble instead of talking all Thanksgiving Day or say thank you after every sentence all day?
Help the turkey escape before dinner or help the pie escape before dessert?
Eat dinner dressed as a turkey or eat dinner dressed as a pumpkin pie?
Have a fork that only picks up vegetables or have a spoon that only scoops up dessert?

A round plan for Thanksgiving Day

You do not need to play all 80 at once. Spread a few through the day:

When	Group	How many	Tip
While people arrive	Cooking	3 to 5	Ask whoever is stuck waiting in the kitchen.
Once everyone is seated	At the table	5	Read one between each dish being passed.
Before dessert	Pie and leftovers	5	The winner of each vote gets their slice first.
On the couch	The afternoon	As many as you like	Play during the commercial breaks.
At the kids’ table	Silly ones	All 10	Let the oldest kid read.

Three Thanksgiving twists

Thankful tiebreak. When the table splits exactly in half, each side names one thing it is thankful for, and the youngest player picks the winner.
Napkin ballot. Everyone writes A or B on a napkin and flips it over at the same time, so the loudest relative cannot sway the vote.
Guess the host. Before each vote, the table guesses what the host will pick. Everyone who guessed right gets the next serving.

Want something with right and wrong answers? Thanksgiving trivia plays the same way on one phone, with teams and a score.

Frequently asked questions

Are these Thanksgiving questions family-friendly?

Yes. All of them are written to be read out with grandparents and young kids at the table. There is nothing about politics, religion or anyone’s weight.

How many Thanksgiving would you rather questions are there?

80, in 6 groups that follow the day from the kitchen to the couch. None of them are in the 240-question would you rather game.

How long does a round take?

About a minute a question, longer if someone has to defend their answer. The round plan on this page uses 25 to 30 questions, so about half an hour spread across the day.

Can kids read the questions?

Yes. Most options are short, and the silly group is written for the kids’ table. A confident reader of about seven can run it.

Do I need to print anything?

No. Keep this page open on one phone and pass it along, or use the random button to pick for you.

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