Mild dares to break the ice
MildStories, charades, compliments and simple rules. Great to start with or for playing with new people.
- Tell us the worst excuse you've ever used to bail on plans.
- Describe your last trip like it's a movie trailer.
- Sum up your week in three words and let the group guess what happened.
- Tell us the weirdest food you've ever tried and whether you'd eat it again.
- Tell us about the worst gift you've ever gotten and the face you made opening it.
- Tell the story of your first job, starting with “Once upon a time.”
- Tell us the most cringeworthy thing you've ever seen at a wedding.
- Tell the story of how you met someone here (or your best friend), wildly exaggerated.
- Tell us about the most ridiculous plan you went along with because you couldn't say no.
- Tell us about your biggest kitchen disaster, smoke alarm included if there was one.
- Share a habit of yours nobody understands and defend it like it's the law.
- Tell us about your worst haircut ever and whose fault it was.
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- Tell us about your day backwards, from right now to when your alarm went off.
- Tell us the biggest white lie you've ever told just to be polite.
- Tell us about the time you waved excitedly at someone who was actually waving at someone else.
- Point to whoever has the best taste in music: they pick the next song.
- Pick someone for rock-paper-scissors, best of three: the loser takes a sip (or water).
- Point to someone and compliment something they said tonight.
- Pick someone for a staring contest: whoever laughs first takes a sip (or water).
- Point to whoever would last longest on a desert island; they explain their strategy.
- Pick someone and ask them the question you've always wanted to ask a stranger.
- Pick someone for a thumb war: the loser takes a sip (or water).
- Pick someone to do an impression of you for ten seconds; you rate it from 1 to 10.
- Point to whoever would be late to their own wedding; they get ten seconds to defend themselves.
- Pick someone and toast to something you have in common (you have to find it first).
- Point to someone and guess their favorite food; if you're wrong, take a sip (or water).
- Pick someone who gets thirty seconds to sell you on their favorite show.
- Point to whoever you'd hire to plan your birthday party and explain why.
- Pick someone and both say your perfect Sunday at the same time; if you match, clink glasses.
- Point to whoever looks like a shower singer and have them prove it with a chorus.
- Call the action at the table like a sports announcer for twenty seconds.
- Do an infomercial selling the object closest to you. “But wait, there's more!”
- Play a totally overwhelmed server taking everyone's order.
- Act out your favorite movie, charades-style, until someone guesses it.
- Give tomorrow's forecast like a local TV weather person, imaginary map included.
- Order a pizza on an imaginary phone in your best pirate voice.
- Be a tour guide and show off this room like it's a famous museum.
- Be a robot-voiced GPS giving directions from the table to the bathroom.
- Dance in your chair like it's the last song at a wedding.
- Read your grocery list out loud like it's a super dramatic poem.
- Be a game show host and introduce the person on your right as today's contestant.
- Accept an imaginary Oscar and thank everyone here, tears included.
- Act like whatever animal the group picks for ten seconds.
- Do a dramatic airport goodbye with the object closest to you.
- Act out your morning routine without words; the group has to guess each step.
- On three, everyone points to who'd win karaoke night; whoever gets the most votes sings a chorus.
- Go around naming fruits, no repeats; whoever gets stuck takes a sip (or water).
- Last one to touch their nose takes a sip (or water).
- Word chain: each word starts with the last letter of the one before; whoever messes up takes a sip (or water).
- Vote at the same time: pineapple on pizza, yes or no? The smaller side takes a sip (or water).
- Go around making a different sound with something on the table; whoever repeats a sound takes a sip (or water).
- Thirty seconds of total silence: the first one to talk or laugh takes a sip (or water).
- Count to 20 around the group, saying “Buzz!” instead of every multiple of 3; whoever slips takes a sip (or water).
- On three, everyone points to who takes the longest to order at a restaurant.
- Build a story together, one sentence each, starting with “That night in the elevator…”
- Do the wave around the group three times in a row; whoever's early or late takes a sip (or water).
- On three, everyone says a number from 1 to 5; anyone who matches someone takes a sip (or water).
- Telephone: whisper a sentence to your right and pass it all the way around; the last person says it out loud.
- Everyone imitates you at once for ten seconds, and you pick the best impression.
- Everyone names something that puts them in a good mood; whoever takes more than three seconds takes a sip (or water).
- What song do you know every word to but are embarrassed to admit?
- What's the first thing you check on your phone when you wake up?
- What's the most useless thing you've bought this past year?
- What show have you pretended to have watched?
- What's the weirdest thing you've googled this week?
- What time did you actually fall asleep the last time you said “just one more video”?
- What do you always order even though you promise yourself you'll try something new?
- What unpopular food opinion would you defend to anyone?
- Have you ever pretended not to see someone in public to avoid saying hi?
- What's the weirdest nickname you've ever had, and where did it come from?
- What word did you mispronounce for years without realizing it?
- What app do you open the most, and what's your real screen time?
- What phrase do you say way too much?
- What fictional character does your family say you're most like?
- What's the most expensive thing you've ever broken by accident?
- Make up a rule that lasts until your next turn: whoever breaks it takes a sip (or water).
- Hand out two sips (or water) to whoever you want.
- Ban a word until your next turn; whoever says it takes a sip (or water).
- Pick a theme song: until your next turn, whenever someone gets up from the table, everyone hums it.
- Pick who has to tell their best vacation story.
- Wild card: keep it and use it to skip any dare whenever you want.
- Name your sip buddy: until your next turn, whenever one of you drinks, so does the other (or water).
- Pick two people who have to switch seats right now.
- Invent a secret gesture: until your next turn, when you do it, the last person to copy it takes a sip (or water).
- Pick someone who has to talk about themselves in the third person until your next turn.
- Pick a mandatory conversation topic for one minute and who kicks it off.
- Pick someone to be your butler: they pass you whatever you ask for until your next turn.
- Crown someone king or queen of the table: they can skip one rule, once.
- Pick someone to tell a joke right now; if nobody laughs, they take a sip (or water).
- Pick someone who has to end every sentence with “you know?” until your next turn.