80 Truth or Dare Questions for Friends, Teens and Adults

How to play truth or dare

Can’t decide who goes first or what to ask? Spin the free truth or dare wheel. It picks truth or dare and a question for you, or try the dare wheel if your group only wants dares.

1. Sit in a circle. Pick who goes first.
2. Ask the player on your left: “Truth or dare?”
3. Truth: they answer the question honestly. Dare: they do the challenge.
4. The player who just went asks the next person. Keep going around the circle.

Before you start, agree on two rules: everyone gets a couple of passes, and anything that makes someone genuinely uncomfortable is skipped, no questions asked.

A few house rules that keep the game moving:

• Pass penalty. If you pass, you take a small penalty instead, like doing ten squats or letting the group pick your next dare.
• No repeats. A question that’s already been asked is off the table for the rest of the night.
• Asker answers too. For truths, the person asking can be required to answer the same question afterward. It keeps questions fair.

It works with as few as three people, but four to eight is the sweet spot. Bigger groups can split into two circles.

Truth questions for friends

1. What’s the most embarrassing thing in your camera roll right now?
2. Who in this room would you call first if you got arrested?
3. What’s a secret you kept from your parents that they still don’t know?
4. Which friend here would survive the longest in a zombie movie?
5. What’s the pettiest reason you stopped talking to someone?
6. What’s the worst gift you ever pretended to love?
7. Have you ever blamed something on a friend in this room?
8. What’s one text you regret sending?
9. Who was your most embarrassing celebrity crush?
10. What’s the weirdest thing you’ve searched online this month?
11. What’s a lie you told to get out of plans?
12. If you had to swap lives with someone here for a week, who would it be?
13. What’s the longest you’ve gone without showering?
14. What’s a habit you have that nobody here knows about?
15. What’s the most childish thing you still do?
16. Which group chat would you least want this room to read?
17. What’s the most money you’ve spent on something you never used?
18. Who here do you think would make the worst roommate, and why?

Funny dares

The best dares are quick, a little ridiculous and done in front of the group. Nobody needs to leave the room, spend money or involve anyone who isn’t playing.

1. Talk in a dramatic movie-trailer voice until your next turn.
2. Let the group pick a new ringtone for you for the rest of the night.
3. Do your best impression of someone in the room until they guess who it is.
4. Eat a spoonful of a condiment of the group’s choice.
5. Sing everything you say for the next two rounds.
6. Let someone draw a mustache on your face with eyeliner or a washable marker.
7. Speak only in questions until your next turn.
8. Do a runway walk across the room to music the group picks.
9. Show the last five photos in your camera roll.
10. Hold a plank until it’s your turn again or you give up.
11. Read your last sent text out loud in a news-anchor voice.
12. Let the group post a harmless status of their choice on your story (you approve it first).
13. Act out a famous movie scene without words until someone guesses it.
14. Wear your clothes backwards for the next three rounds.
15. Do your most dramatic slow-motion fall onto the couch.
16. Narrate everything the next player does like a nature documentary.
17. Try to make the person across from you laugh in 30 seconds without touching them.
18. Swap one item of clothing with the player on your left until the end of the game.

Good truth questions (a little deeper)

When the room is warmed up, these get people talking for more than ten seconds.

1. What’s something you’re proud of that you rarely talk about?
2. What’s a moment you wish you could redo?
3. What’s the best advice anyone has ever given you?
4. What’s a fear you’ve never told anyone here?
5. When was the last time you cried, and why?
6. What’s one thing you’d change about how you were raised?
7. What do you think people get wrong about you?
8. Which friendship ended that you still think about?
9. What’s a dream you gave up on?
10. What’s the kindest thing a stranger has done for you?
11. What would you do if you knew nobody would judge you?
12. What’s something you’ve forgiven but not forgotten?

Clean truth or dare for teens

These keep things fun without anything you’d mind a parent overhearing.

Truths

1. What’s the most embarrassing thing that’s happened to you at school?
2. Who was your first crush?
3. What’s the worst grade you ever hid from your parents?
4. What’s your most-used emoji, and why?
5. Which teacher would you never want to be stuck in an elevator with?
6. What’s the silliest thing you’ve cried over?
7. What app do you spend way too much time on?
8. What’s a song you secretly know every word to?

Dares

1. Do your best dance move for 30 seconds with no music.
2. Talk like a pirate until your next turn.
3. Try to lick your elbow.
4. Let the person on your right style your hair.
5. Balance a book on your head for a full round.
6. Do ten jumping jacks while saying the alphabet backwards.
7. Do your best animal impression and let the group guess the animal.
8. Tell a joke. If nobody laughs, tell another one.

Truth or dare for adults

Bolder, but still the kind of thing you’d laugh about the next morning. Read the room before you pull these out: they’re great with close friends, less so with coworkers or people who just met.

Truths

1. What’s the worst date you’ve ever been on?
2. What’s the most rebellious thing you did in your twenties?
3. Have you ever had a crush on a friend’s partner?
4. What’s your most embarrassing drunk story?
5. What’s the most impulsive purchase you’ve ever made?
6. What’s a red flag you ignored once?
7. Who here would you trust least with your phone unlocked?
8. What’s the boldest pickup line you’ve actually used?
9. What’s the biggest lie on your dating profile, past or present?
10. What’s something you’ve done that you’d never tell your boss?

Dares

1. Let the group read your last three DMs out loud (you can veto one).
2. Do your best seductive voice while reading a grocery list.
3. Give the person on your left a sincere 30-second compliment speech.
4. Act out your worst-ever first date, playing both people.
5. Let someone else write your next dating-app bio (no posting required).
6. Do a slow dance with a chair for one full chorus.

Truth or dare over text

Playing in a group chat or over the phone? Dares have to work without a camera, so keep them to things you can prove with a screenshot or a message.

Truths

• What was the last thing you searched for?
• Who was the last person you texted, and what did you say?
• What is the most embarrassing song on your playlist?
• What is the longest you have gone without replying to a message?
• Which emoji do you overuse the most?

Dares

• Send a voice note of you singing the chorus of a song to the group.
• Change your profile picture to a photo the group picks for one hour.
• Send the tenth photo in your camera roll, no deleting.
• Text a family member “I need to tell you something” and wait one minute before explaining.
• Write a three-line poem about the person above you in the chat.

Set a time limit (say five minutes) to answer, or the game stalls while someone is away from their phone.

Tips for a better round

1. Mix truths and dares. If everyone keeps picking truth, add a rule that you can’t choose truth three times in a row.
2. Keep dares short. Anything longer than a minute stalls the game.
3. Stay inside the room. Skip dares that involve strangers, money, driving or anything risky. The fun comes from the group, not from the stakes.

Similar games you can play on one phone

Duoo doesn’t have a Truth or Dare game, but two of its games scratch the same itch. Never Have I Ever gets the confessions going without anyone being put on the spot, and Who’s Most Likely To lets the group vote on who fits each prompt. Both run on one iPhone passed around, work offline and fit 2 to 8 players. If you want lists to read from, see our Never Have I Ever questions and Who’s Most Likely To questions, or browse more party games for adults.