“What If?” questions provide a fun conversation starter. They also work well for any group activity as an icebreaker, or a fun get-to-know-you game. Our article gives you hypothetical questions to make you think, funny questions to add fun to any gathering, a list for a “What If?” Questions Game, and an additional list of what if questions to use any way you wish. Try making your own what if questions for an evening of fun with your friends.

Hypothetical Questions

Hypothetical Questions

The best hypothetical questions cause one to think for a moment and consider the best answer. Our comprehensive list of hypothetical questions covers some familiar areas, as well as some more esoteric subjects. We have tried to keep away from very controversial topics so that you can enjoy pondering some deep “What If?” questions.

  • What if all the oceans dried up?
  • What if computers took over the world?
  • What if money cannot buy happiness? Can one be happy with no money?
  • What if no one hears a sound? Does it still exist?
  • What if plastic was banned?
  • What if you could shape your own future just as you wanted it to be?
  • What if someone wrote a story about you? Would you be a considered a hero or a villain in your story?
  • What if the Law of Attraction exists?
  • What if the South won the Civil War?
  • What if there was no electricity for a year anywhere in the world?
  • What if we cannot have happiness without sadness?
  • What if we found live dinosaurs living on a remote island?
  • What if you could change one awful event in world history, but it might mean you would never have been born?
  • What if you could change one thing about the world? What would it be?
  • What if you could find a cure for a disease? Which one would you want to cure?
  • What if you could have a free chip put in your child’s brain to provide all basic knowledge – math, language, and history facts, etc.?
  • What if you could live forever and the earth remained just as it is now?
  • What if you could relive any moment in your life whenever you wished to? Which moment would you choose and why?
  • What if you could remember everything that happened to you from the time you were born?
  • What if you could spend your life never sleeping? What would you do with the extra hours in each day?
  • What if people cared more about doing the right thing than doing things right?
  • What if you could not make your own decisions, but you had to choose someone else to make them for you? Who would you choose and why?
  • What if you had to spend 100 days on a desert island all alone? What ten things would you take with you and why?
  • What if you were badly injured in an accident and your car ran off the road and was hidden from site?
  • What if you were invited to high tea with the Queen of England?
  • What if you were offered the opportunity to go into space?
  • What if you were shipwrecked on an uninhabited island?
  • What if you were the President of the United States?
  • What if you woke up and could not speak your native language, but only one that you could not understand?
  • What if you woke up and discovered you were the only person on earth?
  • What if you woke up one morning with only the clothes you sleep in all alone in another country unable to speak the country’s language?

What If Questions Game

What If Questions Game

Playing a “What If?” question game is a fun way to get to know your friends and coworkers. The “What If?” game also works well as a teaching tool to begin an essay or class discussion. Our selection of questions contains an element of fun and quirkiness to help those playing enjoy asking questions and getting answers.

“What If?” can be played indoors, has no winners or losers, and works well with anyone over the age of eleven. You can have players create their own questions or use the following list. Everyone takes a turn both asking and answering a question.

  • What if (a famous novelist) had been a play writer instead?
  • What if we could only talk in rhymes and meter?
  • What if you could live anywhere in the world? Where would you live?
  • What if you found out your house was infested with snakes?
  • What if you had a money tree growing in your backyard?
  • What if you had the chance to write a best-selling novel? Would it be a romance, mystery, or factual historical account?
  • What if you were excellent at a sport? Which sport would you choose and why?
  • What if you could do one thing so well you could be famous? What would you do?
  • What if you could have any job you wanted?
  • What if you could invent a new food? What would it taste like?
  • What if you could marry someone famous, either living or dead?
  • What if you could only wear one color the rest of your life? Which color would you choose and why?
  • What if you lost everything tomorrow? Who would you run to for comfort?
  • What if you never had to work again? Would you? What would you do?
  • What if you could send a short message to the entire world? What would you say?
  • What if you could start your life all over? What would you do differently?
  • What if you could watch a movie about everything that happened in your life until now? Would you enjoy it?
  • What if you had a friend that you spoke to the same way you speak to yourself? Would that friend stay your friend?
  • What if you had to teach someone one thing? What would you teach?
  • What if you could change one thing about yourself? What would you change?
  • What if you dropped everything to pursue your dreams?
  • What if you had to choose between a wonderful romantic spouse to whom you would be married for only a few years or a boring, unromantic spouse for your entire life? Which would you choose and why?
  • What if you used every moment of your life productively?
  • What if you had to choose between money or no love or love and no money? Which would you choose and why?
  • What if you had to give up your sight or your hearing? Which would you choose and why?
  • What if you were at a bank and robbers came in?

What If Questions For Any Occasion

What If Questions For Any Occasion

Some occasions just call for a good list of “What If?” questions. You may have a group of friends over for an evening get-together and want a quick, fun game which needs no advance preparation. Maybe you need either a fun opening for a meeting at work or a class you are teaching. Our list of “What If?” questions provides not just a wide variety of fun, but also serious questions for any occasion.

  • What if you could live for 200 years?
  • What if you could stop time whenever you wanted to?
  • What if you could be any animal?
  • What if you could change one thing about your past?
  • What if you could post something on the Internet to make you famous overnight?
  • What if you found a way to get really rich very quickly that was illegal?
  • What if you had to choose between great wealth or great wisdom?
  • What if you have to sacrifice yourself for the sake of someone you love?
  • What if you saw someone come out of a public toilet with paper stuck on their shoe?
  • What if you saw someone steal from the place where you work?
  • What if you were given the opportunity to mold your spouse or partner the way you wanted?
  • What if aliens landed in your back yard?
  • What if you could never eat your favorite food again in your life?
  • What if you could only live somewhere that was always above 100 degrees? Always below freezing?
  • What if you discovered you could heal diseases?
  • What if you found a million dollars?
  • What if you found out your spouse had another family in another state?
  • What if you had three wishes? What would you wish for?
  • What if you had to lose a body part? Which would you choose to give up and why?
  • What if you woke up with a dead stranger next to you?
  • What if cats could swim under water?
  • What if you could change your appearance? What would you choose to look like?
  • What if you had to live one day over and over again? What would your chosen day be like?
  • What if you went for a walk in the woods and found a money tree?
  • What if you woke up and discovered you had changed sexes over night?
  • What if you woke up and were twenty years younger? Older?
  • What if a ghost haunted your bedroom at night?
  • What if I you died right now?
  • What if you could travel back in time?
  • What if you had to choose between fame and fortune?
  • What if you were alone at home and you heard footsteps coming up your stairs?
  • What if you found a wallet with $10,000 in it?
  • What if you could change one thing about the person you love? What would it be?
  • What if you could change one thing about yourself? What would it be?
  • What if you could live under water because you had gills?
  • What if you could read minds?
  • What if you hit a car in a parking lot, but nobody saw you do it?
  • What if you knew you had only 24 hours to live?
  • What if you could choose how you were going to die?
  • What if you were chosen to go into space?
  • What if you were dreaming about your teeth falling out, and you woke up to find that they had?

Funny What If Questions

Funny What If Questions

Laughter has many advantages. It is said laughing helps us look and feel younger. Our funny “What If” questions are guaranteed to meet your need for humor, especially these funny questions. Be prepared to laugh out loud!

What if we had to sing our conversations?

  • What if you could only eat pizza the rest of your life? (or any other food)
  • What if you could walk on the ceiling?
  • What if you switched places with your pet?
  • What if you woke up in the morning with a stranger next to you in bed?
  • What if a turtle didn’t have his shell? Would he be homeless or naked?
  • What if cats could bark and dogs meow?
  • What if you could fly?
  • What if you could have free, unlimited service for five years from an extremely good cook, a handsome chauffeur, or daily house cleaner? Which would you choose?
  • What if you were a type of candy? What candy would you be?
  • What if you were a tree? What would you say to those who walk by?
  • What if you were a monster? What monster would you choose to be?
  • What if you could only walk on your hands?
  • What if you could talk to animals? What would you say or ask?
  • What if you had a tail?
  • What if you lost your bathing suit while you were swimming, what would you do?
  • What if you woke up one morning to find you had switched bodies and families with your best friend?
  • What if you woke up tomorrow morning and could only hop everywhere you went?
  • What if you could have any one supernatural power (reading minds, great strength, flying, or being invisible)? Which would you choose and why?
  • What if you could only wear one set of clothes for the rest of your life? What would you choose to wear and why?
  • What if you found out you were really a robot?
  • What if you saw your zipper was down and people had noticed?
  • What if you were a fruit? What fruit would you choose to be and why?
  • What if your body was a bright color? Which color would you choose and why?
  • What if you could neglect one personal hygiene routine (shaving, brushing your teeth, cutting your nails, etc.) without any adverse effect to your image or health? Which would you choose and why?
  • What if you used a public toilet and discovered there was no paper?
  • What if you were allowed to eat only one food for the rest of your life? Which food would you choose and why?
  • What if you woke up in bed and saw spiders walking all over you?
  • What if your cell phone fell in the toilet?

What if questions work well not just as icebreakers, but also conversation starters. They also work well with almost any age or group size. You can even create your own “What If?” questions. In addition, you can think about problems, challenges, and serious/humorous results. Get started and have fun!