Conversation Starters for Every Table and Every Crowd
One deck of open questions for each kind of table.
A good conversation starter is a question nobody has a stock answer to, asked at a table where the talk has gone flat. This set has one deck of them for each kind of table: friends who know each other's stories, teens, kids, a family dinner with three generations, a Thanksgiving or Christmas meal, a church group, a room of people swapping business cards, and language classes that need something real to talk about. Open the page that matches tonight and a first question is already showing. Press Next card for another, pick a topic, or tap Easy for a group that has only just met. Most hosts leave one phone in the middle of the table and let whoever answered last read the next card. Every question is original, clean enough for a grandparent and a nine-year-old, and printed in full under the deck.
By who is at the table 5
Decks sorted by the people answering: a mixed group, old friends, a table ready for bigger questions, teens and kids.
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Fun Conversation Starters for Any Table
250 light questions for any group in ten sets, from weird ones and harmless hot takes to wedding tables, each with a follow-up.
For example What is the most unhinged harmless thing you do when you are home alone?
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Conversation Starters for Friends With a Shared History
150 questions that lean on shared history, in eight sets: remember-whens, how we met, crazy what-ifs, how well you know me and us at seventy.
For example If this group were a sports team, what sport, and who is captain?
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Conversation Starters for Teens, From Car Rides to College
150 questions an adult can ask a teenager without it sounding like an interview, in eight sets: car rides, music and games, high school, opinions, plans and college.
For example What rule at home or school makes no sense to you?
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Good Deep Conversation Starters in Three Depths
120 slower questions on values, turning points, regrets and the people who shaped you, five at each of three depths per group, so a table stops where it likes.
For example Which one problem would you give ten years of work to?
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Conversation Starters for Kids, Ages 4 to 12
178 open questions for ages 4 to 12 in eight sets: a preschool set, after school, a classroom set for morning meeting, imagine-ifs and big questions.
For example If animals went to school, which animal would be the class clown?
By occasion 5
Questions written for one kind of gathering: a holiday meal, a church group, or a work event where nobody knows anybody.
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Networking Conversation Starters, From First Hello to Goodbye
112 openers for conferences and mixers, sorted by moment: first hello, joining a group, the coffee queue, after a talk, coworkers and leaving politely.
For example What would you change about the way these events are run?
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Thanksgiving Conversation Starters for the Whole Table
80 table questions about gratitude, the food, family traditions and old stories, with an all-easy kids' table set and eight cards for Friendsgiving.
For example What happened at a past Thanksgiving that still gets brought up before the pie is cut?
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Christmas Conversation Starters for Dinner, Parties and the Office
136 questions for Christmas dinner and holiday parties: gifts, the tree, customs abroad, the Nativity, a kids' set, and an office set that never says Christmas.
For example Which Christmas found you in an airport, a hotel or a stranger's home, and how did it go?
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Christian Conversation Starters for Small Groups and Youth Groups
126 questions for small groups and youth groups: faith stories, church life, serving, prayer, honest doubts, and 44 cards that name a Bible passage.
For example What do you do when you do not feel like praying?
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Halloween Conversation Starters for the Party and the Table
128 Halloween questions in eight sets: costumes, candy trades, pumpkins, mild scares, old customs, Halloweens past, hot takes and party talk.
For example What did you once believe happened after dark on Halloween night?
For language practice 3
Graded questions for a class, a tutor or a language exchange, with easy cards a beginner can answer in one sentence.
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ESL Conversation Starters by Level and Grammar Point
212 speaking questions for English classes, graded A1 to C1 and tagged with the grammar each answer practices, plus a first-lesson icebreaker set.
For example When you arrived at your last party or meeting, what had already happened?
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French Conversation Starters for Tu and Vous, with English Lines
185 questions written in French, in 12 topics and three levels set by tense. Each is marked tu or vous, with the English line and the other form one tap away.
For example Quel fromage aimez-vous, et lequel évitez-vous ?
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Spanish Conversation Starters With English Lines and Usted Forms
150 questions written in Spanish and graded by grammar, from the present tense to the subjunctive, each with its English line and the usted or tú form.
For example ¿Qué tareas de la casa haces tú y cuál no soportas?