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Sleepover Questions, From First Snack to Lights-Out

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Sleepover Questions, From First Snack to Lights-Out

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1. Warm-up favorites 30

  • What animal would make the best sleepover guest? Follow-up: Where would it sleep?
  • What are the best pajamas you have ever owned? Follow-up: What made them better than the ones you have on?
  • What candy would you trade your whole snack pile for? Follow-up: What candy would you give away for free?
  • What do you always pack for a sleepover and never use? Follow-up: What did you forget this time?
  • What game should we play before the night is over? Follow-up: What are your house rules for it?
  • What is the best cereal, and what is the right amount of milk? Follow-up: What cereal is only good dry?
  • What is the best game to play with the lights off and flashlights on? Follow-up: What are the rules?
  • What is the best ice cream flavor for a midnight snack? Follow-up: What goes on top?
  • What is the best place to sleep: bed, couch, floor or blanket fort? Follow-up: What makes a blanket fort a good one?
  • What is the best sleepover snack of all time? Follow-up: What snack should never show up at a sleepover?
  • What is the best sleepover theme: spa night, movie marathon or indoor camping? Follow-up: What would the invitation say?
  • What is the best thing about sleeping somewhere that is not your own bed? Follow-up: What is the worst thing?
  • What is the best thing to put in a pancake? Follow-up: What shape should a pancake be?
  • What is the best time of year for a sleepover, and why? Follow-up: What can you do then that you cannot do the rest of the year?
  • What is the comfiest spot in this room? Follow-up: How would you make it even comfier?
  • What is the earliest you have ever woken up on purpose? Follow-up: What made it worth it?
  • What is the right breakfast for the morning after a sleepover? Follow-up: Who in this room should be in charge of making it?
  • What is the right way to share one bowl of popcorn? Follow-up: What happens to the last handful?
  • What is your sleeping bag or blanket rating out of ten, and why? Follow-up: Whose sleeping bag or blanket here would you swap for?
  • What movie could you watch tonight for the tenth time? Follow-up: Which scene would you act out?
  • What should we clink cups to tonight, and what is in the cups? Follow-up: Who says the words?
  • What show did you love when you were six? Follow-up: What would you think of it now?
  • What song goes first on tonight's playlist? Follow-up: What song is banned tonight?
  • What song would you sing if tonight turned into karaoke? Follow-up: Who in this room is singing backup?
  • What stuffed animal, pillow or blanket have you had the longest? Follow-up: What is its name or its story?
  • What time do you think you will really fall asleep tonight? Follow-up: What is your plan for staying awake?
  • What would be on the menu at your dream sleepover? Follow-up: What comes for dessert?
  • What would tonight be called if it were a movie? Follow-up: What would the poster look like?
  • What would you add to this room to make it the perfect sleepover room? Follow-up: Which corner would it go in?
  • Which topping makes a pizza, and which one ruins it? Follow-up: What would you put on a dessert pizza?

2. Who in this room 30

  • Who in this room can make you laugh without saying a word? Follow-up: How do they do it?
  • Who in this room could last longest in a blanket fort with only snacks? Follow-up: What snacks would they need?
  • Who in this room could talk their way onto a spaceship? Follow-up: What job would they get on board?
  • Who in this room has the best dance move? Follow-up: What should that move be called?
  • Who in this room has the best laugh? Follow-up: What sets it off?
  • Who in this room is best at remembering things? Follow-up: What did they remember that surprised you?
  • Who in this room should narrate a nature documentary about this sleepover? Follow-up: What would the first line be?
  • Who in this room should tell tonight's bedtime story? Follow-up: What should it be about?
  • Who in this room would be best at working in a zoo? Follow-up: Which animal would they look after?
  • Who in this room would be the best mayor of a town made of candy? Follow-up: What would their first law be?
  • Who in this room would build the best fort? Follow-up: What would they add that nobody else would think of?
  • Who in this room would invent the best sandwich? Follow-up: What is in it?
  • Who in this room would make the best camp counselor? Follow-up: What activity would they run first?
  • Who in this room would make the best detective? Follow-up: What case would they solve first?
  • Who in this room would make the best movie director? Follow-up: What kind of movie would it be?
  • Who in this room would make the best superhero sidekick? Follow-up: What would their gadget be?
  • Who in this room would make the best talk show host? Follow-up: What would the show be called?
  • Who in this room would make up the best handshake for this group? Follow-up: How does it start?
  • Who in this room would plan the best surprise party? Follow-up: What would the theme be?
  • Who in this room would run the best shop, and what would it sell? Follow-up: What would you buy there first?
  • Who in this room would stay calmest if the lights went out right now? Follow-up: What would they do first?
  • Who in this room would win a pancake-flipping contest? Follow-up: How high would the winning flip go?
  • Who in this room would you ask for help naming a pet? Follow-up: What name would they come up with?
  • Who in this room would you pick as a partner in a three-legged race? Follow-up: What would your team name be?
  • Who in this room would you send to talk to a dragon for the group? Follow-up: What would they say to it?
  • Who in this room would you swap lunches with, no questions asked? Follow-up: What do you hope is in it?
  • Who in this room would you trust to pick tonight's movie? Follow-up: What do you think they would pick?
  • Who in this room would you want as a neighbor in a treehouse village? Follow-up: What would you build between your two houses?
  • Who in this room would you want next to you on the first day at a new school? Follow-up: What would they do that helps?
  • Who in this room would you want on your team for a scavenger hunt? Follow-up: What would they find first?

3. Funny confessions 30

  • What can you do with your face, hands or feet that most people cannot? Follow-up: When did you find out you could?
  • What did you cry about when you were little that seems funny now? Follow-up: What fixed it back then?
  • What did you name something when you were little that still makes you laugh? Follow-up: What would you name it now?
  • What did you try to cook or bake that went wrong? Follow-up: What did it look like at the end?
  • What do you doodle when you are supposed to be listening? Follow-up: Where is your best doodle now?
  • What do you sing, say or do when you think you have the house to yourself? Follow-up: What happens when you find out you do not?
  • What food do you eat in a way that other people say is wrong? Follow-up: How did you start eating it like that?
  • What game do you always lose, and what is your excuse? Follow-up: What game do you always win?
  • What harmless thing gave you the creeps when you were five? Follow-up: What do you think of it now?
  • What have you blamed on the dog, the cat or the wind? Follow-up: Who believed you?
  • What have you eaten the last of and then put the empty box back? Follow-up: Who found the box?
  • What have you found in a pocket weeks too late? Follow-up: What state was it in?
  • What have you lost and then found somewhere ridiculous? Follow-up: How long had it been there?
  • What have you pretended to understand when you had no idea? Follow-up: How did you get out of it?
  • What have you said out loud that you meant to only think? Follow-up: Who heard it?
  • What is the funniest thing that has happened to you in a dream? Follow-up: Who else was in it?
  • What is the funniest thing you have done when you were too tired to think? Follow-up: Who saw it?
  • What is the funniest thing you have mistaken for something else? Follow-up: How long did it take you to notice?
  • What is the funniest way you have ever fallen over? Follow-up: What were you trying to do at the time?
  • What is the most ridiculous thing you have ever argued about? Follow-up: How did it end?
  • What is the oddest thing you have ever brought to school by mistake? Follow-up: What did you do with it all day?
  • What is the oldest thing at the bottom of your closet? Follow-up: Why is it still there?
  • What is the weirdest thing you ever ate and actually liked? Follow-up: What did it taste like?
  • What is the weirdest thing you have done to get out of a chore? Follow-up: How well did it work?
  • What is the worst joke you know by heart? Follow-up: What is the second worst?
  • What jingle or theme tune is stuck in your head for life? Follow-up: How does it go?
  • What look did you think was amazing when you were seven? Follow-up: Who still has the photo?
  • What made you laugh so hard that you could not explain why? Follow-up: Who else was there?
  • What song lyric did you sing wrong for the longest time? Follow-up: What did you think the words were?
  • What were you sure you would be famous for when you were seven? Follow-up: What is the plan now?

4. Spooky, but mild 30

  • What animal sound at night is the creepiest, and what animal is it really? Follow-up: What is that animal probably saying?
  • What brave thing have you done in the dark, like fetching something from a dark room? Follow-up: What were you telling yourself at the time?
  • What does the moon see that we cannot? Follow-up: What would it tell us if it could?
  • What is the first line of a spooky story set at this sleepover? Follow-up: What happens next?
  • What is the friendliest ghost you can imagine, and what does it want? Follow-up: What would you name it?
  • What is the last line of a spooky story that ends happily? Follow-up: What was the scary part in the middle?
  • What is the least scary monster you can invent? Follow-up: What is it afraid of?
  • What is the shadow on the wall doing when nobody is looking? Follow-up: What has it seen tonight?
  • What is the spookiest place you have been that turned out to be fine? Follow-up: What made it feel spooky?
  • What is under the bed, if it has to be something funny? Follow-up: How long has it lived there?
  • What lives at the bottom of a very deep lake, if it has to be friendly? Follow-up: What does it do for fun?
  • What mystery would you like to solve with a flashlight and a notebook? Follow-up: Who in this room is your partner on the case?
  • What noise does a house make at night, and what is your silliest explanation? Follow-up: What is the boring real explanation?
  • What part of a spooky story always makes you laugh? Follow-up: What part still gets you?
  • What sound would you make to convince everyone the house is haunted? Follow-up: Where would you hide to make it?
  • What would a ghost at a sleepover complain about? Follow-up: What snack would it float off with?
  • What would a skeleton order at a diner in the middle of the night? Follow-up: Where does the food go?
  • What would a vampire who is afraid of the dark do all night? Follow-up: Who would it ask for help?
  • What would a werewolf pack for a sleepover? Follow-up: What would it do when the moon came out?
  • What would start the best mystery: a key, a map or a letter? Follow-up: What does it open, show or say?
  • What would you do if the clock in the hall struck thirteen? Follow-up: What is different during the thirteenth hour?
  • What would you do if you saw a light in the woods that moved when you moved? Follow-up: What do you hope it turns out to be?
  • What would you do if your flashlight started answering questions? Follow-up: What would you ask it first?
  • What would you find in the attic of a house that has been empty for a hundred years? Follow-up: What would you take home from it?
  • What would you name a black cat that brings good luck? Follow-up: What kind of luck does it bring?
  • What would you put in a house that is only a little bit haunted? Follow-up: What would the ghost's one rule be?
  • What would you say to a monster to make friends with it? Follow-up: What game would you teach it?
  • What would your ghost costume look like if a bedsheet was not allowed? Follow-up: What sound would you make?
  • Where would a haunted ice cream truck drive, and what would it sell? Follow-up: What song would it play?
  • Which is spookier, a very quiet house or a very windy night, and why? Follow-up: What would make it cozy instead?

5. Dreams and plans 30

  • What about you should never change, however old you get? Follow-up: What do you hope does change?
  • What club or team would you start if you could start any? Follow-up: What happens at the first meeting?
  • What could you teach everyone in this room in five minutes? Follow-up: Who would be the quickest learner?
  • What do you practice now that you hope pays off later? Follow-up: What would paying off look like?
  • What do you want to be braver about this year? Follow-up: What would the brave version of you do next week?
  • What do you want to remember about tonight? Follow-up: What should we do again next time?
  • What do you want to try that scares you a little? Follow-up: What would make it less scary?
  • What game did you make up yourself that you still know the rules to? Follow-up: How do you win?
  • What is one thing you would like to be thanked for one day? Follow-up: What are you doing about it now?
  • What is the plan for your next birthday, if you get to choose everything? Follow-up: What kind of cake is there?
  • What kind of house do you want to live in when you are grown up? Follow-up: Which room would be the biggest?
  • What language would you like to wake up speaking? Follow-up: Where would you go to use it?
  • What place do you most want to see before you are twenty? Follow-up: What would you do on the first day there?
  • What should happen at every sleepover this group has from now on? Follow-up: What should we call it?
  • What trip should this group take together one day? Follow-up: Who is in charge of the map?
  • What would the next sleepover need to beat this one? Follow-up: Whose turn is it to host?
  • What would this group be famous for, if it were famous? Follow-up: What would the fans be called?
  • What would you build if you had a whole summer and all the materials? Follow-up: Who would you let help you build it?
  • What would you do this summer if you could pick only one big thing? Follow-up: What would you need to make it happen?
  • What would you do with a day when you were in charge of this whole group? Follow-up: What would be the first rule?
  • What would you do with a week of no school and no bedtime? Follow-up: What would you be doing at three in the morning?
  • What would you do with a whole day outdoors and nobody rushing you? Follow-up: What would you bring along?
  • What would you invent to make sleepovers better? Follow-up: What would you call it?
  • What would you keep in a backyard that was all yours? Follow-up: What is not allowed in?
  • What would you like to be able to do without help by your next birthday? Follow-up: Who helps you with it now?
  • What would you like to learn to cook all by yourself? Follow-up: Who in this room gets the first plate?
  • What would you write in a letter to yourself to open at eighteen? Follow-up: What do you hope has come true by then?
  • What would your dream bedroom have in it? Follow-up: What would be on the ceiling?
  • What would your treehouse have that no other treehouse has? Follow-up: What is the password to get in?
  • Where should this group have a sleepover if it could be anywhere at all? Follow-up: What would we need to bring?

How it works

These 150 sleepover questions are written for 8-to-14-year-olds to ask each other, in five rounds that follow the night from first snack to lights-out. No card asks about a crush, sets a dare or asks for someone else's secret.

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Five rounds, in the order of the night

Under Round, press 1. Warm-up favorites while the snacks are out: 30 quick cards about pizza, pajamas and playlists. 2. Who in this room asks for a pick and a reason. 3. Funny confessions is for when everyone has the giggles: what have you blamed on the dog, the cat or the wind? Keep 4. Spooky, but mild and 5. Dreams and plans for after lights-out.

Two rules that keep it fun

Anyone can say pass, and nobody asks why. In round 2, pick someone new each time until everyone has been picked once. Easy (62 cards) takes a few words, Medium (71) asks for a short story and Hard (17) needs a think or a little nerve.

  • No phones after lights-out? Earlier, pick round 4 or 5 and press Print on the end card: 30 slips for a bowl.
  • The spooky round has no blood, injuries or intruders: friendly ghosts, odd noises and a vampire who is afraid of the dark.
  • Someone new to the group? Stay in round 1 longer. Favorites need no shared history, and the follow-up gives a quiet guest a second turn.

Questions and answers

What are good questions to ask at sleepovers?

Ones everybody in the room can answer and nobody is embarrassed by. Try What do you always pack for a sleepover and never use? or What would a ghost at a sleepover complain about? Both get a story out of a quiet guest.

Are there any crush, dare or secret questions?

No. No card asks who anyone likes, sets a dare or asks for someone else's secret, and none is about phones or strangers. 3. Funny confessions asks for a funny story about yourself. No Who in this room card asks who is worst at anything.

What ages are the questions for?

Eight to fourteen. The cards assume school, friends and a sleepover or two behind you, and only the person holding the phone has to read. For under-eights use the kids deck linked below; thirteen and up can add the teens deck.

Will the same question come up twice?

Not until every card has been seen tonight; the deck forgets what it dealt after twelve hours. Press Start over to bring every card back sooner.

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