Best Superlatives – 40 Kind Ones, Each With a Reason

Q: What are superlatives for friends or family?

The Friends and Family chips hold eight each, such as Most Likely to Remember Your Birthday and Most Likely to Start a Dance Party in the Kitchen, for a reunion or a holiday dinner.

How it works

These are 40 superlatives, each with a reason to read out, in five chips: high school class, middle school, friends, family, and clubs and teams. Every one is about what a person does or loves, never how they look.

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Nominate, then vote

Press Pick 5 new superlatives and Lock the ones your group likes. Copy the list into a form or the group chat, and let everyone vote a name onto each title. The reason line goes on the certificate or under the yearbook photo.

Middle school superlatives

The Middle school chip keeps to titles eleven to fourteen-year-olds can wear proudly: Best Locker Organizer, Most Likely to Become a Scientist, Friendliest to New Students. None of the five chips has best-dressed or cutest-couple titles, so nobody is voted on for their looks.

Tips

Make sure every student or friend wins one, and give out the rest as group awards.

Questions and answers

What are the best superlatives for a class?

Ones that praise something a classmate does: Most Likely to Write a Bestseller, Most School Spirit, Kindest Class Clown. The laugh comes from recognizing the person, not from a joke about them.

What superlatives should I avoid?

Anything about looks, clothes, dating, money or a mistake. Best dressed and cutest couple leave most of the class out, and a joke title can follow a student for years.

What are superlatives for friends or family?

The Friends and Family chips hold eight each, such as Most Likely to Remember Your Birthday and Most Likely to Start a Dance Party in the Kitchen, for a reunion or a holiday dinner.

All 40 superlatives

High school class 8

Best Laugh For the laugh you can hear down the hallway.
Kindest Class Clown For making everyone laugh without making anyone the joke.
Most Likely to Be First at the Reunion For never being late to anything.
Most Likely to Build a Robot For fixing everything with tape and a paper clip.
Most Likely to Teach This Class Someday For explaining the homework better than the textbook.
Most Likely to Travel the World For the classmate who already has a list of countries to see.
Most Likely to Write a Bestseller For the classmate with a story for every occasion.
Most School Spirit For never missing a game, a play or a pep rally.

Middle school 8

Best Locker Organizer For a locker that looks like a library shelf.
Best Lunch Table Storyteller For the stories that made lunch go too fast.
Best Science Fair Project For the project the judges talked about all day.
Friendliest to New Students For showing every new face around.
Most Likely to Become a Scientist For turning every lab into a new question.
Most Likely to Train a Dog to Do Anything For the patience of a future animal trainer.
Most Likely to Turn a Hobby Into a Club For turning every interest into a meeting.
Most Likely to Write a Graphic Novel For the notebook margins full of comics.

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Friends 8

Best Advice Giver For the friend everyone calls first.
Best Road Trip DJ For the playlist that made the long drive short.
Most Likely to Adopt Every Stray Cat For a heart that no animal can resist.
Most Likely to Bake for Everyone For showing up with cookies, every time.
Most Likely to Get Lost With a Map in Hand For the adventures that started with a wrong turn.
Most Likely to Headline the Talent Show For turning every hangout into a jam session.
Most Likely to Plan the Group Trip For the shared itinerary with color-coded days.
Most Likely to Remember Your Birthday For never missing one, even the half-birthdays.

Family 8

Best Gift Wrapper For presents too neat to open.
Best Grill Master For the backyard cookout everyone looks forward to.
Best Photo Organizer For keeping every family picture in the right album.
Best Storyteller at Dinner For making the old family stories funnier every year.
Most Likely to Fix It Themselves For never calling a repair person first.
Most Likely to Host Every Family Gathering For the biggest table and the warmest welcome.
Most Likely to Start a Dance Party in the Kitchen For turning dish duty into a show.
Most Likely to Win Game Night For playing every board game to win, and winning gracefully.

Clubs and teams 8

Best Idea of the Year For the suggestion that changed how the group works.
Best Newcomer For fitting in like they had been here for years.
Best Team Spirit For cheering loudest from the sidelines.
Most Dedicated For never missing a meeting or a practice.
Most Likely to Lead the Team Someday For the voice everyone already listens to.
Most Likely to Organize the Next Event For the sign-up sheets and the reminders.
Most Likely to Stay Late to Help Clean Up For the last-one-out spirit.
Most Positive Attitude For finding the bright side of every rainy day.

How this list was compiled: Written for this site by the Game Night Generator editors in September 2026: all 40 superlatives and the reason under each are our own wording. Screened line by line under the family's kindness rule: every superlative is about something a person does, likes or chooses, and none is about looks, clothes, body, age, money, beliefs, health or dating, or works as a put-down. No brand, trademark, show, team or real person is named. Checked by script against the other award pages on this site: no title appears twice. Licence: own work