Thanksgiving Would You Rather Questions and This or That Pairs: how it works
This Thanksgiving deck deals from 100 cards: 70 would you rather questions and 30 this or that pairs. Tap a side to vote on Eat pie or stuffing for breakfast on Friday, and the card shows how the table split. No card names a brand, a team or a store.
Deal it while the turkey rests
Read the card aloud and tap once per raised hand, or pass the phone so each guest taps a side. Next question deals again and Skip puts a card back. Easy has 52 cards about tastes. Hard holds the 10 where both sides sting, such as Forget to thaw the turkey or forget to buy the potatoes.
Seven topics, 30 pairs and a For students chip
Seven topic chips hold the would you rather questions for Thanksgiving, ten cards each, from Turkey and sides and Leftovers to Parade and football and Kitchen duty. This or that holds 30 this or that questions Thanksgiving tables argue about every year, such as Stuffing or dressing and White meat or dark meat. No pair repeats a question.
Tips
Looking for would you rather questions Thanksgiving guests can answer with a full mouth? Press This or that. A pair takes ten seconds and a raised left or right hand.
Press No repeats tonight before the first card, so the canned cranberry sauce debate comes up once and not three times.
Let the losing side of each vote choose the next chip. It keeps the guests who got outvoted on pie in the game.
Questions and answers
Are there Thanksgiving would you rather questions for students?
Yes. Press For students for 54 cards a class can answer without anyone describing their home: tastes, parade jobs, yard football and table chores. No travel card carries the tag. For early grades, the kids deck has its own short Thanksgiving set, and the fall deck covers leaves, cider and football season.
Can I print the Thanksgiving questions?
Yes. All 100 print under the deck by topic, with the 30 pairs under their own This or that heading, so use your browser's Print or Save as PDF. Twenty-one cards print with a checked note, such as the 1796 cookbook that first mentioned cranberry sauce with turkey. The notes show in the list only.
Is anything here awkward for a mixed table?
No card mentions drinking, money or anyone's beliefs, and none asks who is missing from the table or what was said last year. The family cards are about seats, stories and dishes, such as Sit at the wobbly card table or share the piano bench with two cousins. For a second game, deal Thanksgiving charades or print Thanksgiving bingo.
Would you rather add mac and cheese to the menu or a second kind of potato?Macaroni and cheese is served as a side in some Southern coastal areas.
Would you rather claim the drumstick or all the crispy skin?
Would you rather eat only the crunchy top of the green bean casserole or only the middle?Green bean casserole was invented in 1955.
Would you rather get a plate where no foods touch or one where it all runs together?
Would you rather give up stuffing for good or mashed potatoes for good?Many people consider the meal incomplete without stuffing, mashed potatoes with gravy, and cranberry sauce.
Would you rather host a sidesgiving with no turkey or a dinner of turkey and nothing else?
Would you rather roast the turkey for twenty guests or make every side dish yourself?Turkey is the most common main dish of a Thanksgiving dinner.
Would you rather serve cranberry sauce shaped like the can or fresh but far too tart?Cranberry sauce was first mentioned with turkey in the cookbook American Cookery in 1796.
Would you rather top every dish with marshmallows or with fried onions?Sweet potatoes are often prepared with brown sugar, molasses or marshmallows.
Would you rather try a deep-fried turkey or a turducken?The turkey is traditionally roasted, and deep-fried turkey is growing in popularity.
Pie and dessert 10
Would you rather bake a pie from scratch that flops or buy a pie and say you baked it?
Would you rather bring the pie nobody touches or bring nothing and hear about it?
Would you rather eat pumpkin pie with no whipped cream or whipped cream with no pie?Pumpkin pie is the most traditional Thanksgiving dessert.
Would you rather give up pumpkin pie forever or every other pumpkin treat?
Would you rather have one slice each of four pies or four slices of your favorite?
Would you rather have pie every day of November or only on Thanksgiving?
Would you rather judge the family pie contest or enter it?
Would you rather roll out every pie crust by hand or pit every cherry by hand?
Would you rather split the last slice three ways or give it up for first pick next year?
Would you rather try mince pie or sweet potato pie for the first time?Sweet potato, mince, cherry and chocolate cream pies are all served at Thanksgiving.
Leftovers 10
Would you rather build one giant leftover sandwich or ten tiny leftover sliders?
Would you rather eat Friday's leftovers at home in pajamas or pack them for a long hike?
Would you rather eat pie or stuffing for breakfast on Friday?
Would you rather finish every leftover by Sunday or freeze it all and find it in March?
Would you rather make turkey tacos or turkey fried rice on Saturday?
Would you rather match lids to forty containers or wrap it all in foil and guess later?
Would you rather open the fridge on Friday to only turkey or to everything but turkey?
Would you rather send every leftover home with guests or keep it all and eat it for days?Copious leftovers are common after a Thanksgiving dinner.
Would you rather take home the last of the stuffing or the last of the pie?
Would you rather turn the leftovers into soup or into a pot pie?
Travel and getting there 10
Would you rather arrive early and get put to work or late and get the wobbly chair?
Would you rather bring your dog to the big dinner or meet the host's five cats?
Would you rather drive eight hours each way or fly there with two layovers?
Would you rather eat two full dinners at two houses or one and miss half the family?
Would you rather hold three pies on your lap or a full gravy boat for the whole drive?
Would you rather leave Wednesday in the worst traffic or Thursday at 4 a.m.?
Would you rather sleep on the pull-out couch or on an air mattress that leaks?
Would you rather spend Wednesday night stuck in an airport or stuck on the highway?
Would you rather stay the whole long weekend or head home the same night?
Would you rather take the middle seat for five hours or the wheel for five hours?
Parade and football 10
Would you rather catch the winning pass in the yard or bake the pie everyone asks about?
Would you rather design a parade float or a giant parade balloon?
Would you rather keep football on TV all day long or keep the TV off?Football on Thanksgiving goes back to the late 19th century, and Detroit has hosted a pro game every year since 1945.
Would you rather lead the parade as drum major or call the parade as the TV announcer?
Would you rather march in the parade with a tuba or dance in it in a turkey suit?
Would you rather miss overtime to sit down to dinner or eat a cold plate after overtime?
Would you rather play quarterback in the family game or referee it?Informal Thanksgiving games called Turkey Bowls are played as touch or flag football.
Would you rather play the family game in deep mud or in the first snow?
Would you rather run five kilometers before dinner or set the table for twenty?
Would you rather see the parade from a freezing curb or from a warm couch on TV?New York's Thanksgiving parade has run since 1924. Philadelphia's, the oldest, began in 1920.
Seats and the table 10
Would you rather carve with all eyes on you or give the welcome speech to the room?
Would you rather give up your screen until pie or keep it and wash every dish?
Would you rather have a dog begging under your chair or a toddler eating off your plate?
Would you rather let the host assign every seat or let everyone scramble?
Would you rather say what you are thankful for as a rhyme or as a song?At some tables each person tells one reason they are thankful.
Would you rather set the good china and hand-wash it or set paper plates and toss them?
Would you rather sit at the wobbly card table or share the piano bench with two cousins?
Would you rather sit by the uncle with one long story or by the cousin with 400 photos?
Would you rather sit down to eat at two o'clock sharp or eat whenever the turkey decides?The meal is often served in the early or middle afternoon.
Would you rather squeeze thirty around one table or seat six at a table built for thirty?
Kitchen duty 10
Would you rather be in charge of the gravy or in charge of the oven schedule?
Would you rather be the official taste tester or the official table setter?
Would you rather cook with four relatives advising or cook the whole meal with no help?
Would you rather follow a recipe card with one smudged step or cook the dish from memory?
Would you rather forget to thaw the turkey or forget to buy the potatoes?
Would you rather get up at five to start the turkey or stay up late scrubbing the pans?
Would you rather have the dishwasher quit at noon or the oven run fifty degrees cold?
Would you rather juggle four dishes in one oven or cook the whole meal on a camp stove?
Would you rather peel fifty potatoes or chop twenty onions?
Would you rather stir the gravy for a solid hour or whip cream by hand for four pies?
This or that 30
A walk around the block or a board game after dinner?
Apple pie or pecan pie?Apple pie and pecan pie are both common at Thanksgiving.
Better meal: Thursday dinner or Friday leftovers?
Bring a side or bring a dessert?Guests often bring a dish to a Thanksgiving dinner.
Candles or gourds in the middle of the table?
Carve at the table or carve in the kitchen?
Cloth napkins or paper napkins?
Cranberry sauce from the can or homemade?
Drive or fly?
Football on TV or football in the yard?
Friday shopping or Friday sleeping in?The day after Thanksgiving is known as Black Friday.
Friendsgiving or family dinner?
Grandma's recipe or a new recipe this year?
Gravy over everything or gravy on the side?
Green bean casserole or mac and cheese?
Marching bands or giant balloons?
Mashed potatoes or sweet potatoes?
Morning fun run or sleep until the parade?
Pull the wishbone or leave it on the plate?Two people pull the bone, and the one who gets the larger piece makes a wish. In some families the smaller piece wins.
Pumpkin pie or sweet potato pie?
Roll with butter or roll dunked in gravy?
Rolls or cornbread?Bread rolls, biscuits or cornbread may be served with the meal.
Seconds or save room for pie?
Set the table or clear the table?
Stuffing or dressing?Which word people use depends on the region. Southerners generally make dressing from cornbread.
Thanksgiving at your place or at grandma's?
Turkey or ham?
Turkey sandwich or turkey soup?
Whipped cream or ice cream on the pie?
White meat or dark meat?
How this list was compiled: Written for this site by the editors; nothing was copied from another list. The file holds two sets that share no card: 70 would you rather questions in seven topics of ten, and 30 this-or-that pairs. The list prints each pair bare (White meat or dark meat?) and the deck shows the same pair as two short options under its Would you rather heading. Every card was read against the site's family-safe rule (nothing sexual, no alcohol or drugs, no self-harm, no dares, no risky food, no real people, no put-downs) and the list was run through a word blocklist on 2026-09-19. The deck names no store, no food brand, no team and no league, and no card asks about anyone's beliefs or family troubles. For students is an editor's tag on top of a card's topic: 54 cards about tastes, parades, yard games and table jobs that a class can answer without saying who will be at home, how far anyone travels or who does the cooking; no travel card carries the tag. Difficulty is an editor's judgment: easy cards are tastes, hard cards cost you something either way. The foods and customs named on the cards (roast and deep-fried turkey, turducken, sidesgiving, stuffing and cornbread dressing, mashed potatoes with gravy, cranberry sauce and its 1796 mention in American Cookery, sweet potatoes with marshmallows, the 1955 green bean casserole, macaroni and cheese, rolls, biscuits and cornbread, pumpkin, apple, pecan, sweet potato, mince, cherry and chocolate cream pies, ham, the early afternoon meal, guests bringing dishes, leftovers) were checked against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_dinner on 2026-09-19. The parade dates, football on the holiday since the late 19th century, the Detroit game held every year since 1945, Turkey Bowl yard games, Black Friday and the custom of each person telling a reason they are thankful were checked against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_(United_States) on 2026-09-19. The wishbone note was checked against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furcula on 2026-09-19. The fact notes in the d field print only in the list under the deck, never on a card or after a vote. Licence: own work