It is the two minutes of arguing afterwards about why anyone would pick that. A wheel keeps supplying questions so the group never stalls trying to think of the next one.
Pick a pool above and spin. Below you will find how the pairs work, which set fits your group, and how to keep a long game moving.
What is a would you rather wheel?
A would you rather wheel is a free spinner holding question pairs. Spin it and it lands on one, giving the group two options to choose between and argue about, with no one having to invent the dilemma.
The pair is what makes this different from every other prompt wheel.
Other wheels hand you one thing. This one hands you two, and the choice between them is the entire game.
How do you play?
Spin for a question, then let everyone answer before you move on. Going round the group works better than shouting over each other, because the reasons people give are far more interesting than the answers themselves.
Three steps:
- Pick the pool that matches your group
- Spin, read both options aloud
- Go round the group, then spin again
Three pools and what is in them
| Pool | The dilemmas | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Kids | Silly, imaginative, harmless | Classrooms, car journeys, parties |
| Teens | School, friends, mild embarrassment | Teenage groups, youth clubs |
| Adults | Career, money, awkward hypotheticals | Grown-up gatherings |
| Your own | Only the pairs you write | A group with its own running jokes |
Which pool fits your group?
Pick for the youngest person playing. The kids pool works at every age, because silly dilemmas are funny to adults as well, while an adult dilemma lands badly in any room that has children in it.
That asymmetry is worth knowing before you choose.
The kids set is also the one that works in a classroom, which is where a lot of these questions get used. It needs nothing explained and nothing screened first.
Can you write your own questions?
Type in your own pairs and they become slices. A good would you rather is specific to the people playing, which is why a group's own list almost always plays better than a general one.
The trick is making both options genuinely bad or genuinely good.
A pair where one side is obviously correct produces no argument and no game. Write two options that a reasonable person would split on, and the round runs itself.
Two approaches that work:
- Two bad options, where the group argues about which is worse
- Two good options, where the group argues about what they would give up
How do you keep a long game going?
Turn on remove after pick so each question leaves the wheel once it has been used. A group works through the pool rather than hitting the same dilemma twice, which is what ends a session early.
Repeats are more noticeable here than on other prompt wheels.
People remember a good dilemma and the argument attached to it, so a repeat lands as a mistake rather than a coincidence.
Does it work as an icebreaker?
Better than most, because answering says something about you without being personal. A new group learns more from three good dilemmas and the reasoning behind them than from a whole round of names and job titles.
Two things make it work in that setting.
Nobody has to disclose anything real, and the disagreements are safe ones. A group that has argued about a hypothetical has already practised disagreeing with each other, which is the thing icebreakers are actually for.
Is the would you rather wheel random?
Yes. Every question left in the pool has exactly the same chance on every spin. The draw comes from your browser's own cryptographic random source, and nobody in the group can steer where it lands.
Editing the pool changes what is eligible, not the odds between whatever you left in.
More at how our randomness works .
What other question wheels are there?
Question wheels differ in what the prompt asks for: a choice, an admission, or a dare. Pick the one that matches the game your group is actually playing rather than swapping pools inside one wheel.
- Truth or dare wheel for questions and dares
- Never have I ever wheel for statements rather than choices
- Yes or no wheel for a decision rather than a game
- Wheel of names for picking who answers next