# Icebreaker Questions

> Awkward silence, meet your match. Draw a card, read it out, and watch the room start talking.

Source: https://getoxtro.com/icebreaker-questions

This is an interactive game. Play it at https://getoxtro.com/icebreaker-questions; it runs in the browser.

## How to use it

1. Choose a pack that fits your group, such as **Work meetings** or **Team check-ins**, or stay on **All**.
2. Tap **Next question** until one feels right.
3. Read it out, or tap **Copy** to paste it into your team chat or meeting invite.
4. Doing a daily standup? **Today** gives everyone the same question for the day.

Give each person about a minute to answer, and have the person running the meeting go first.

## All 120 icebreaker questions

### Work meetings

- What was your first ever job, and what did it teach you?
- What is one small thing that makes your workday better?
- What is the best piece of advice you have had at work?
- If your job came with a theme song, what would it be?
- What skill do you have that your coworkers would never guess?
- What did you want to be when you were ten?
- What is your go-to snack during a long day?
- What app could you not get through a workday without?
- If you could swap jobs with anyone here for a day, whose would you pick?
- What is the most useful thing you learned this month?
- What is the strangest job you have ever heard of?
- Are you a morning planner or a figure-it-out-later person?
- What is the best meal you have had on a work trip or at a work event?
- What would your out-of-office message say if you could be completely honest?
- What is something on your desk that has a story behind it?
- What is one tool or habit you would recommend to everyone here?
- If our team was a band, what would we be called?
- What is something you are looking forward to this quarter?
- What is the best compliment you have received at work?
- What would you do with one extra free hour every day?

### Team check-ins

- In one word, how is your week going?
- What is one win from this week, big or small?
- If your energy today was weather, what would the forecast be?
- What is one thing you are looking forward to today?
- What is taking up the most space in your head right now?
- What would make today a good day for you?
- What is something you could use a hand with this week?
- What did you do last weekend that you would do again?
- On a scale of one to ten, how much coffee or tea does today need?
- What is one thing that went better than you expected lately?
- Who on the team helped you recently, and how?
- What is a song that matches your mood today?
- What is one thing you want to finish before the week ends?
- What made you smile in the past day or two?
- If today had a title, what would it be?
- What is something new you tried recently?
- What is one thing you want to stop doing next week?
- What are you reading, watching or listening to right now?
- What is the best thing you ate this week?
- What do you need from this meeting to make it worth your time?

### Friends

- What is the most fun you have had in the past year?
- What is a story from your childhood that you still tell?
- If you could relive one day exactly as it was, which would you pick?
- What is the best trip you have ever taken?
- What is something you have always wanted to try but have not yet?
- Who was your favorite teacher, and why?
- What is your most controversial food opinion?
- What is the last thing that made you laugh until it hurt?
- What is a movie you can watch again and again?
- If you won a free holiday tomorrow, where would you go?
- What is the strangest thing you have ever eaten?
- What is a hobby you picked up and dropped within a month?
- What would your perfect Saturday look like?
- What is the most spontaneous thing you have ever done?
- What did you collect as a kid?
- What is a song that takes you straight back to a certain time?
- What is a small thing that always cheers you up?
- If you could master one skill overnight, what would it be?
- What is the best gift you have ever received?
- What is something you believed as a kid that was totally wrong?

### Dates and chats

- What is a place you could happily go back to every year?
- What is your idea of a really good first date?
- What is the most interesting thing you have learned lately?
- What is the best meal you have ever had, and where?
- What is something you are weirdly good at?
- What are you into right now that you could talk about for an hour?
- What is your go-to karaoke song, even if you never sing it?
- Are you a plan-everything traveler or a see-what-happens traveler?
- What is a small thing people do that instantly wins you over?
- What is the last show you watched that you would actually recommend?
- If we had a free day tomorrow, how would you spend it?
- What is something on your bucket list that surprises people?
- Dog person, cat person, or plant person?
- What is the most adventurous thing you have done?
- What is your favorite way to spend a rainy day?
- What is a food you would defend to anyone?
- What do your friends always come to you for?
- What is something you changed your mind about recently?
- What is a tradition you love, or one you would like to start?
- What is one thing most people get wrong about you?

### Classroom and kids

- If you could have any animal as a pet, what would it be?
- What superpower would help you most at school?
- What is your favorite thing to do at break time?
- If you could invent a new school subject, what would it be?
- What food could you eat every single day?
- If you could be any character from a book or movie, who would you be?
- What is the best game you have ever played?
- If you could visit any planet, which would you pick?
- What is something you are really good at?
- What would you do if you were the teacher for a day?
- If you had a robot, what chore would it do for you?
- What is your favorite season, and why?
- If you could talk to any animal, what would you ask it?
- What is the funniest joke you know?
- What is something new you learned this week?
- If you could build a treehouse, what would be inside it?
- What makes a person a really good friend?
- If you could travel anywhere, where would you go first?
- What would your dream birthday party look like?
- If you started a club, what would it be about?

### Deep questions

- What is something you have changed your mind about as you got older?
- What does a really good day look like for you?
- Who has had the biggest influence on how you see the world?
- What is a piece of advice you ignored and later wished you had taken?
- What are you most grateful for right now?
- What is a risk you are glad you took?
- What do you want more of in your life this year?
- What is something you do that feels like time disappears?
- What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
- What is a belief you hold that most people around you do not?
- What is something small that someone once did that you never forgot?
- What is the best decision you have ever made?
- When did you last feel completely at peace?
- What would your younger self be surprised to learn about you today?
- What does friendship mean to you now, compared with ten years ago?
- What is something you want to be remembered for?
- What is a question you wish people asked you more often?
- What is something hard that made you better?
- What does home mean to you?
- What is one thing you would like to learn before you are much older?

## Frequently asked questions

### What makes a good icebreaker question?

A good icebreaker is easy to answer, takes about a minute, and does not put anyone on the spot. The best ones have no wrong answer and get people telling short stories rather than one-word replies.

### What are good icebreaker questions for work?

Stick to questions about habits, tastes and past experiences, such as a first job or a favorite snack. The **Work meetings** and **Team check-ins** packs avoid topics like health, money, family and beliefs, so they suit people who do not know each other well.

### What is the question of the day?

**Today** picks one question from the whole deck based on the date, so everyone who opens this page on the same day gets the same one. It changes at midnight UTC, which makes it handy for daily standups and team chats.

### Can I use these for dates or online chats?

Yes. The **Dates and chats** pack has questions that are easy to ask and more interesting than "how is your week going". Copy one and make it your own.

### Is it free? Can I use the questions anywhere?

It is free, with no account. Use the questions in your meetings, classrooms and group chats however you like.