225 Fun What If Questions for Kids, Adults, Couples, Friends (2025)
These fun what if questions will get you thinking WAY outside of the box! They’ll make you laugh, make you gasp, and make you think too.
Plus, you’ll learn a lot about the people you are with and what their deepest beliefs and desires are.
What If Questions to Ask Kids
First, these what if questions for kids and students are clean, appropriate, and will get even a middle schooler to smile and dream!
1. What if you could build an amusement park from scratch? What would be in your park?
2. What if you could rename any city in the world? What city would you change the name to and why?
3. What if LEGO wanted you to create a new Lego set? What would you make?
4. What if your parents said yes to everything for an entire day? What would you do?
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5. What if you could be a character in any book? Who would you be?
6. What if the roles reversed and animals became humans and humans became animals?
7. What if you had to wear the same thing to school every day? What would you wear?
8. What if you suddenly understood your dog (or cat)?
9. What if you could meet one famous person from history? Who would it be?
10. What if you could time travel to any time period? What year would you go to and why?
11. What if your toys came to life?
12. What if your family had its own flag? What would it look like?
13. What if your favorite video game didn’t exist? What would you do instead?
14. What if you found a hidden compartment in your bedroom?
15. What if your closet led to a magical land?
16. What if you could have a magic carpet or an invisible cloak? Which would you choose?
17. What if you invented a robot? What would your robot do?
18. What if you could create a new law? What would you want?
19. What if you owned your own spaceship?
20. What if you had to choose between Christmas and your birthday? What would you do?
21. What if you owned a restaurant? What food would you serve?
22. What if the moon really was made of cheese?
23. What if you woke up and realized you were the President of the United States?
24. What if you could create your own country? What kind of government would it have?
25. What if your teacher turned green, and you had to be the one to tell her/him?
26. If you could tap into one animal’s abilities, which animal would you choose?
27. What if you found out you were actually a princess or prince? What would you do?
28. What if you could get a pet today? What would you get?
29. What if you found out your mom or dad was actually a spy?
30. What if owls showed up with a letter telling you that you were a wizard?
31. What if you were a famous artist? What would you want to paint?
32. What if your baby sister (brother/cousin) was actually a mastermind genius trying to take over the world?
33. What if you had to choose between being a kid forever and growing up right now? Which would you choose?
34. What if the sky was actually pink?
35. What if someone tried to steal your stuff at school? What would you do?
36. What if you could snap your fingers and food appeared? What food would you want to show up?
37. What if you ran your school? How would it be different?
38. What if all tests were on Mondays?
39. What if a book came to life? Which book would you want it to be?
40. What if your favorite show or movie came to life?
41. What if unicorns were real?
42. What if kids became adults for a day, and adults became the kids?
43. What if homework didn’t exist?
44. What if dragons were real? Would you be happy or terrified?
Kids Hypotheticals That Encourage Safety
While these questions are serious, they make for an excellent conversation about safety in your house!
45. What if you woke up and smelled smoke? What would you do?
46. What if you are shopping at the store and get lost? What should you do?
47. What if a stranger asked you to open your front door?
48. What if someone got hurt at home and no one else was home? What would you do?
49. What if someone on the internet wanted to know where you live? Would you tell them?
50. What if you needed to tell someone your parent’s phone number because it was an emergency? Could you?
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What if Questions For Adults
Next, these questions get grownups to think about things in a whole new way.
51. What if you treated Monday like it were Friday? How would it be different?
52. What if you found a scared and hungry animal on the side of the road? Would you keep it?
53. What if you became the first person to do something? What would you want that first to be?
54. What if you could learn one skill to the point of mastery? What would you want it to be?
55. What if you could eliminate one word from the English language?
56. What if you gave someone you loved an amazing gift? What would it be?
57. What if you could hire someone to help you with anything? Who would you hire and what would they do?
58. What if you got stranded on a deserted island for 5 years?
59. What if you could change the price of any item at the store to $1? What would you change?
60. What if you got lost in the woods? How would you get out?
61. What if you met someone who said they time traveled? Would you believe them?
62. What if you had to travel to a foreign country with only a backpack? What would you take?
63. What if you suddenly became famous? What would you want to be famous for?
64. What if you could abolish one law? What would you get rid of?
65. What if you could have a wild animal for a pet? Which would you want it to be?
66. What if you could change one event in history?
67. What if we lost all electricity for a week? Or a year?
68. What if you could get a ticket to any concert in the world? What would you see?
69. What if plastic didn’t exist?
70. What if you could have any car you wanted?
71. What if you could have any house you wanted? What would it look like?
72. What if you could change one thing about your life? What would you want it to be?
73. What if money actually grew on a tree in your backyard?
74. What if you could learn the truth about one major event in history? What would you pick?
75. What if you had to relive the same day every day? What day would you choose?
76. What if you were forced to get a giant tattoo? What would you want the image to be?
77. What if your nighttime dreams came to life? Would that be exciting or terrifying?
78. What if you suddenly realized you were aging backward?
79. What if you realized you were growing at 10X the normal speed?
80. What if you found out your house was infested with spiders?
81. What if you could colonize Mars? Would you?
82. What if you could uninvent something? What would it be?
83. What if your nighttime dreams were really things that happened to you in a different life?
84. What if you died and had to haunt something or someone? Who or what would you haunt?
85. What if your favorite movie heist happened in real life?
86. What if you became a vegetarian (or vegan)? Could you do it? What would you miss most?
87. What if you completed a 30-day challenge? What challenge would you want to do?
88. What if you had to dance in front of a stadium full of people? What kind of dancing would you do?
89. What if you could create your own fashion trend? What would it be?
90. What if you could make everyone in the world insanely passionate about one thing? What would it be?
91. What if you could make everyone in the world forget one thing? What would you want them to forget?
92. What if you got arrested? Who would you call?
93. What if you started an activist group? What would you stand for?
94. What if you had to go through a natural disaster, but you could choose which one? What would you choose?
95. What if you started a secret society? What would it be about?
96. What if you could be there for any major event in history? What event would you choose to witness?
97. What if you woke up and your family was entirely different?
98. What if you started taking amazing care of yourself? What would that look like?
99. What if you started a business today?
100. What if you could have any job you wanted?
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Now, these fun what if questions are both interesting and hilarious!
101. What if you had to give a speech in your underwear?
102. What if you woke up to a zombie apocalypse?
103. What if you could buy anything your heart desired right now?
104. What if you made up a new holiday and it became a national day off?
105. What if you HAD to play truth or dare right now? Would you pick truth or dare?
106. What if you could hear people’s thoughts?
107. What if you could only speak in rhymes? Or tricky tongue twisters?
108. What if everything tasted like candy?
109. What if you met an alien? What would you do?
110. What if you found a suitcase full of $100 bills? What would you do?
111. What if you won the lottery? Would you tell anyone?
112. What if you HAD to pick a superpower to have? What would you pick?
113. What if the world was taken over by zombies? Would you want to be a zombie or a survivor?
114. What if you had one body part that started growing and wouldn’t stop? What would you want it to be?
115. What if you woke up and realized that all of your body hair was gone?
116. What if you could speak to ghosts? Who would you want to talk to?
117. What if you became a transformer? What vehicle would you want to be?
118. What if a family board game came to life? Which would you want it to be?
119. What if animals could talk? Which would be the nicest and which would be the rudest?
120. What if you became an Avenger? What character would you want to be?
121. What if you found a genie lamp? Would you rub it? What would you wish for?
122. What if living dinosaurs were found on a remote island?
123. What if you had a magic clock that could stop time?
124. What if you got sucked into a video game? What game would you want to be in?
125. What if every time you coughed, you also farted?
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Next, here are what if questions that make you think!
126. What if you could see the future? Would it be a blessing or a curse?
127. What if you read a book a week for a year? What do you think would happen?
*Here are some inspiring books!
128. What if you found out you had a long-lost twin?
129. What if you had to give someone your favorite book right now? What would it be?
130. What if you found out that we live in a computer simulation?
131. What if you woke up and your life was a dream?
132. What if you could have lunch with anyone in the world? Who would you choose?
133. What if you found out that someone you love committed a crime? Would you turn them in or help them?
134. What if when you die, your loved ones only remember one thing about you? What would you want it to be?
135. What if you had to get out of your house before it was destroyed? What three things would you take with you?
136. What if you found out your life was really a TV show for others to watch and you didn’t know it?
137. What if you lost all your memories except for one? Which would you keep?
138. What if humans learned to tap into the rest of their brains and we became twice as intelligent?
139. What if you could pick what country, gender, and race you would be born into? What would you pick?
140. What if you found out that you were really a clone of someone else?
141. What if you could decide how or when you die? Which would you choose?
142. What if you could pick your last meal on Earth? What would you want it to be?
143. What if you suddenly inherited a million dollars from a relative you didn’t know about. What’s the first thing you’d do with the money?
144. What if you lost your hearing? What sound would you miss the most?
145. What if you lost your sight? What picture/image would you miss the most?
146. What if you connected deeply with a loved one today? What would that look like?
147. What if you got amnesia and forgot who you were?
148. What if you found out you would live forever?
149. What if you HAD to change one thing about yourself? What would it be?
150. What if you found out today that you were really adopted?
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Thinking About Life
Next, we have questions that make you think about life in general, how you’re living it, and how it could be different.
151. What if the Law of Attraction works?
152. What if life was always easy?
153. What if you reached all of your life goals this year?
154. What if you changed one habit for the better this year? What would it be and what would your life look life?
155. What if you had an extra hour in your day? What would you do?
156. What if you could do anything you wanted for your birthday?
157. What if you could live anywhere in the world?
158. What if you got out of your comfort zone today?
159. What if you suddenly stopped caring what others thought? What’s the first thing you would do?
160. What if you had a bucket list? What would be at the top?
161. What if you could create a billboard that millions of people would see? What would you say?
162. What if, from this day forward, you decided to celebrate life more? What would you do?
163. What if you HAD to change careers? What would you do instead?
164. What if you were asked to give a speech in front of thousands? Would you do it?
165. What if you could replace one bad memory from your mind? Would you?
166. What if you were reincarnated when your life was over? What would you want to come back as?
167. What if social media was required to show the good and the bad of people’s lives? Do you think they’d be as popular?
168. What if you started daily gratitude? What would you be grateful for first?
169. What if we all assumed the best of others? How would the world be a different place?
170. What if someone wanted to make your life into a movie? What would it be like?
171. What if you found out you had 6 months to live? What would you do?
172. What if one futuristic thing from a movie became real in life? What would you want it to be?
173. What if you could re-do one thing in your life? What would it be?
174. What if you created a vision board for your life right now? What would be on it?
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175. What if you took 100% responsibility for your life, no matter what happened beyond your control?
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What if questions for Friends
Next, these what if game questions are so fun to quiz with your friends!
176. What if you were asked to go into space?
177. What if you had a photographic memory?
178. What if you needed to tell your friend something, but had to do it in code?
179. What if you were getting money out of the bank and witnessed a bank robbery?
180. What if you were in an earthquake? What would you do?
181. What if you HAD to write a book? What would you write about?
182. What if you invented your own deli sandwich? What would be in it?
183. What if your favorite book or movie had a sequel? What would you want it to be about?
184. What if time stopped? What would you do?
185. What if you had to change your name? What would you change it to?
186. What would you do if you could hack anything in the world?
187. What if you could fluently speak a new language in one day? What language would you want it to be?
188. What if a celebrity became President of the United States? Which would you want it to be?
189. What if alcohol was prohibited or rationed? Would that bother you?
190. What if you had to create the next hit show? What would it be about?
191. What if you could only eat one food for the rest of your life? Which would you choose?
192. What if you had to rely on your friends for news of the outside world?
193. What if you could spend all afternoon with just one person? Who would you spend it with and why?
194. What if someone created a coffee shop (or bar) that perfectly suited you? What would it be like?
195. What if you could spend a year with any three people from history? Who would you choose?
196. What if you could live in any country in the world? Where would you live?
197. What if you found out your closest friends were really robots? What would you do?
198. What if you could invent a new flavor of ice cream? What would it be?
199. What if you could be in the Olympics? What sport would you want to participate in?
200. What if virtual reality became the new normal?
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What if Questions for Couples
Finally, these are fun for spending quality time with your spouse, boyfriend, or girlfriend!
201. What if you had the best date of your life? What would it look like?
202. What if your partner forgot an important date? How mad would you be?
203. What if you found out your partner was really a spy?
204. What if your partner told you that you had to move in 2 weeks?
205. What if you found out you were going to have a baby together?
206. What if you found out your partner had a crazy phobia? What would you do?
207. What if you had to work with your partner? Would you be able to do it?
208. What if you could choose between a short passionate relationship that lasted a year or a lifetime lukewarm one? Which would you choose?
209. What if you got stranded on an island with your partner? Would you survive without killing each other?
210. What if one of you received an unexpected $5,000? Would you agree on how to spend it?
211. What if your relationship was wild and passionate? What would that look like to you?
212. What if your partner wanted you to keep a big secret? Would you be able to do it?
213. What if your wedding had to be planned in 2 hours? What would you do?
214. What if you were to dance around your house naked to one song? What song would it be?
215. What if your partner wanted to quit his or her job? Would you be supportive?
216. What if you had an extra room in your house to make any way that you wanted? What would you do with it?
217. What if your partner described you to a stranger? What would he/she say?
218. What if your partner wanted to get intimate in a public place?
219. What if you could live an extra 50 years with your partner but you’d both be in poor health? Would you do it?
220. What if you and your partner took a life-changing trip? What would that look like?
221. What if your partner’s appearance changed drastically?
(They lost and gained a lot of weight etc.)
222. What if your partner was suddenly into kinky things? Would you be cool with that?
223. What if you needed to take in and raise someone else’s kids? What would you do?
224. What if your kids wanted to live with you as an adult? Would you both agree on your answer?
225. What if you found out that your child was a prodigy?
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To Consider With This What If Game
These good what if questions can be done in many different situations! Try them:
- During date night or family night
- While waiting in line together
- During a road trip or family camping trip
- Anytime you need to connect or get to know someone!
Enjoy the questions and have fun getting to know your friends and family on a new level. What are the what would you do if questions that really opened up your imagination? I’d love to know!
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