If your family is anything like mine, you’ll spend the morning cooking a full Thanksgiving feast. Everything from the mashed potatoes to sausage stuffing, pumpkin crunch cake, and more! Then you’ll all eat, watch a little football (maybe even football bingo), take a nap, maybe even play a little football. Parents will chat, kids will get bored and try and come up with some fun Thanksgiving games to play. This Thanksgiving would you rather game is the perfect game to play during any of that – while you eat, while you’re just hanging out, while you’re resting on the couch after all that turkey. It’s super easy to play, great for all ages (although a few of the questions might go over the kids’ heads), and something you can start and stop whenever you feel like it. It’s one of our new favorite Thanksgiving activities!
Get Ready to Play
One of the reasons we love asking would you rather questions as a family is because it’s a game that takes really no preparation at all. Simply print out the cards (or the one-page sheet) with all the questions listed. And you’re done, all ready to play whenever you need some entertainment. Like last week during our neighborhood Halloween party, I literally just pulled up my website and starting asking these Halloween would you rather questions during a lull in the games and the kids loved it! The only other thing you might want are some Thanksgiving themed prizes for the winners. I’ve got a huge list of prize ideas in this Thanksgiving scavenger hunt post that would work well!
How to Play
There are a couple of different ways that you can use these Thanksgiving would you rather questions. All three ways are super simple, just choose whichever one works best for your group and the activity level you’re looking for.
#1 – Everyone answer
The first way to play is the most traditional. Simply pick out one of the questions and go around the room and have everyone choose their answer. Or pick one person for each question and have them answer. This is a fun thing to do while you’re eating Thanksgiving dinner, like after you say the things you’re grateful for or play this Skittles gratitude game. You can also this in a more active, interactive way, if you want to get some wiggles out with the kids! This is the version I most often play when I’m playing with just the kids or kids and teens. In this version, you’ll be asking the entire group the question. When you ask the question – point to one side of the room for the first answer option and the other side of the room for the other answer. As soon as you’re done reading off the options, everyone has to quickly go to the side of the room that corresponds with the answer they choose. You’d then move onto the next question. Or if you wanted to encourage chatting and people getting to know one another, you could let people chat about why they chose the answer they did or just chat for a minute or two before moving onto the next question. When you’re ready for the next question, have everyone go back to the center before reading off the next question.
#2 – Two-Person Challenge
The second way to play is my personal favorite because it tends to be the most hilarious of the versions. It’s how we played our New Year’s Eve would you rather game! To play, split everyone into pairs. Then ask an individual pair a question and count to three. On the count of three, have them say their answer out loud. If they match answers, they get a point. You can then move onto the next pair or keep asking that pair questions until they don’t match a question, earning points for each question they match correctly. You can also do this kind of like an egg toss where when you count to three, all of the pairs say their answer out loud and try to match each other, rather than doing one at a time. This just means that not everyone gets to watch other people answer the questions, which is one of the funniest parts of all! No matter which way you choose to play, the pair with the most points at the end of the game would win.
#3 – Majority Match
Before you play, give everyone a piece of paper and a pen. Ask the question and have people write down their answer. Then on the count of three everyone has to flip over their answer. Anyone who matches the majority wins a point. Ask another question and do the same thing. The person who has the most total points at the end of the game wins.
Thanksgiving Would You Rather Questions
Game Tips
Couple this would you rather game with an active game like these Thanksgiving minute to win it games to keep everyone entertained and engaged during Thanksgiving! Laminate the cards and save them to have out at your Thanksgiving celebration every year. Pair couples together if you are playing the trying to get a match version of the game for even more fun. It turns into kind of a compatibility game! Anyone who isn’t coupled up can be partnered together with each other. Take turns reading the questions. Print out the cards (rather than the list) and go around the room picking a card and asking the question on it. It gets everyone involved in the question asking and in the answering rather than you as the host being responsible for asking all the questions. Let kids (or anyone else) come up with their own questions for added fun. When we were doing this as one of our Halloween games, I’d ask a question then let one of the kids ask their made-up question. That way maybe their favorite part!
More Thanksgiving Games
Fall party games (using Thanksgiving themed items)Thanksgiving charadesThanksgiving pictionaryThanksgiving Family FeudThanksgiving bingo
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