Would you rather be snowed in a week without power or be snowed in a month with power?
Would you rather build a snowman as tall as your house or build a ten-room snow fort?
Would you rather catch a snowflake on your tongue or make the first tracks in new snow?
Would you rather dig a tunnel through a snowdrift or carve a slide down a snowbank?
Would you rather do online lessons on snow days or add ten minutes to every school day?
Would you rather get a snow day every month or get one whole snow week?
Would you rather have the snow be purple or have the snow smell like pancakes?
Would you rather hear school is closed at 6 a.m. or get sent home at noon in a blizzard?
Would you rather keep yard snow that never melts or get snow only on weekends?
Would you rather live where it snows every day or live where it never snows again?
Would you rather make a snow angel in pajamas or make a snowman in flip-flops?
Would you rather make up every snow day in June or never get a snow day again?
Would you rather shovel a neighbor's walk every storm or dig out one car with a spoon?
Would you rather shovel the whole street alone or scrape ice off forty car windows?
Would you rather wear wet mittens all day or wear one soggy sock all day?
Would you rather win every snowball fight or never get hit by a snowball?
Would you rather work from home on every snow day or take the day off and work Saturday?
Sleds, skates and skis 17
Would you rather be pulled on skis by a horse or be pulled on a sled by ten huskies?
Would you rather be the fastest skater on the ice or be the skater who never falls?
Would you rather be the hockey goalie or take the penalty shot?
Would you rather be the parent who sleds too or be the parent holding the cocoa?
Would you rather climb the sled hill fifty times or wait an hour for one ski run?
Would you rather cross-country ski to school or ice skate to school?
Would you rather fall off the ski lift at the top or get stuck on the lift for an hour?
Would you rather go snowshoeing through quiet woods or go ice fishing in a tiny hut?
Would you rather learn a figure skating spin or learn a snowboard flip?
Would you rather ride a dogsled across Alaska or ride a snowmobile across a frozen lake?
Would you rather ride a toboggan with five friends or ride a saucer sled that spins?
Would you rather ski a mountain with no lift or skate a frozen river for ten miles?
Would you rather sled the biggest hill in town or skate the smoothest pond in town?
Would you rather snowboard in a T-shirt or ski in a full snowsuit on a warm day?
Would you rather sweep the ice in curling or drive the ice resurfacer at the rink?
Would you rather try ski jumping once or try the skeleton sled headfirst once?
Would you rather win a sled race on a lunch tray or lose on the fanciest sled made?
Hot drinks and warm-ups 15
Would you rather drink tea with honey or drink warm milk with vanilla?
Would you rather eat chili from a bread bowl or eat grilled cheese with tomato soup?
Would you rather eat soup for every winter dinner or eat oatmeal every winter morning?
Would you rather give up hot drinks all winter or give up hot showers all winter?
Would you rather keep a blanket fort up all winter or get a reading nook by the heater?
Would you rather make s'mores at the fireplace or bake cookies while it snows?
Would you rather never feel cold hands again or never feel cold feet again?
Would you rather own one perfect sweater or own ten scratchy ones?
Would you rather pay a huge heating bill or wear a coat indoors until March?
Would you rather pull on socks warm from the dryer or get under a heated blanket?
Would you rather sip hot cocoa with marshmallows or sip hot cider with a cinnamon stick?
Would you rather sit by a fireplace with a book or sit by a window and watch it snow?
Would you rather stay in pajamas all weekend or stay in fuzzy slippers all winter?
Would you rather warm up with a dog on your feet or warm up with a cat on your lap?
Would you rather wear a hat your grandma knit or wear a scarf you knit yourself?
Winter animals 12
Would you rather be a cardinal at a full feeder or be a squirrel with a secret stash?
Would you rather curl up all winter like a hedgehog or be the one bird that hibernates?European hedgehogs hibernate every winter. The common poorwill is the only bird known to hibernate.
Would you rather fly pole to pole like a tern or sleep seven months like a dwarf lemur?The arctic tern flies from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back every year. A dwarf lemur in Madagascar spends seven months hibernating in tree holes.
Would you rather fly to Mexico as a monarch or swim to Mexico as a gray whale?Eastern monarch butterflies winter in the mountains of central Mexico. Gray whales swim from Arctic seas to the lagoons of Baja California.
Would you rather follow animal tracks in the snow or find an owl asleep in a pine tree?
Would you rather freeze solid like a wood frog or stay up all winter like a polar bear?A wood frog survives with about two thirds of its body water frozen and no heartbeat. Most polar bears are active all year; only pregnant females hibernate.
Would you rather grow antlers like a reindeer or grow hollow fur like a polar bear?Female reindeer can grow antlers as well as males. A polar bear's guard hairs are hollow and its skin is black.
Would you rather huddle with a hundred penguins or lead the V for a flock of geese?Emperor penguins huddle in groups of ten to several hundred and take turns in the middle. Geese rotate the front spot of the V because it takes the most energy.
Would you rather keep an egg on your feet all winter or dig through snow for every meal?A male emperor penguin balances the egg on his feet for about 65 to 75 days. Caribou comes from a Mi'kmaq word for snow shoveler, because the animal paws through snow to reach food.
Would you rather sleep all winter like a bear or fly south all winter like a goose?Hibernating bears neither eat nor drink. Some Canada geese no longer migrate and stay put all winter.
Would you rather sleep till spring like a groundhog or pack your cheeks like a chipmunk?A groundhog hibernates from about October to March or April in a burrow below the frost line. Chipmunks carry food in cheek pouches to a store in the burrow.
Would you rather turn white like a snowshoe hare or grow furry feet like an arctic fox?A snowshoe hare is brown in summer and white in winter. An arctic fox has fur on the soles of its feet.
Cold, ice and dark 15
Would you rather drive to work in the dark or drive home in the dark?
Would you rather find the longest icicle in town or find a puddle frozen clear as glass?
Would you rather get static shocks from every doorknob or have chapped lips until April?
Would you rather have hat hair all winter or have a runny nose all winter?
Would you rather have it get dark at 4 p.m. or have the sun rise at 10 a.m.?
Would you rather have winter last six months or have no winter at all?
Would you rather hear the furnace clank all night or hear the wind whistle all night?
Would you rather lose a mitten every week or step in slush every morning?
Would you rather push a stuck car out of a snowbank or wait two hours for the tow truck?
Would you rather scrape the windshield every morning or walk ten cold minutes instead?
Would you rather see your breath indoors or have your eyelashes frost over outdoors?
Would you rather slip on ice in front of a crowd or get a snowball down your collar?
Would you rather spend a week at the South Pole or spend a month with no sunrise?
Would you rather wait for the bus in freezing rain or walk home in blowing snow?
Would you rather wear a coat too puffy to bend your arms or wear boots two sizes too big?
This or that 49
Big fluffy flakes or fine dry powder?
Big party or quiet night in?
Bobsled or luge?
Cinnamon rolls or banana bread?
Clementines or pomegranates?
Curling or speed skating?
Downhill or cross-country?
Early spring or six more weeks of winter?
Earmuffs or a fleece headband?
Fireworks or confetti?
First snow or last snow?
Flannel sheets or a heavy quilt?
Fleece robe or big hoodie?
Frozen lake or frozen waterfall?
Hand warmers or a hot-water bottle?
Hockey or figure skating?
January thaw or January blizzard?
Jigsaw puzzle or card game?
Look back or look ahead?
Marshmallows or whipped cream?
New hobby or new habit?
New wall calendar or new planner?
Northern lights or a meteor shower?
Party hat or party horn?
Penguins or polar bears?
Peppermint tea or ginger tea?
Pom-pom hat or ear-flap hat?
Pot pie or pot roast?
Puffer coat or wool coat?
Reindeer or huskies?
Scarf or turtleneck?
Shovel or snowblower?
Ski jump or half-pipe?
Ski lodge or ice hotel?
Skis or snowshoes?
Sled or skates?
Sleep in or a sunrise walk on New Year's Day?
Snow angel or snowball?
Snow day on Monday or snow day on Friday?
Snow globe or paper snowflakes?
Snow pants or a one-piece snowsuit?
Snow tubing or tobogganing?
Snowman or igloo?
Snowplow driver or ski patrol?
Snowy morning or snowy night?
Snowy owl or arctic fox?
Sparkling cider or cocoa at midnight?
Sunny and freezing or gray and mild?
Wool socks or fuzzy socks?
New Year and January 15
Would you rather blow a noisemaker at midnight or bang pots on the porch at midnight?
Would you rather count down from ten or count down from sixty?
Would you rather eat twelve grapes at midnight or sing every verse of Auld Lang Syne?In Spain people eat one grape on each of the twelve clock strikes at midnight. Auld Lang Syne began as a Robert Burns poem in 1788.
Would you rather give up sugar for January or give up screens for January?
Would you rather go back to school on January 2 or trade a summer week for a longer break?
Would you rather host the New Year's party or be the guest who leaves at 12:01?
Would you rather keep one resolution all year or keep five resolutions until March?
Would you rather know the best day of your year ahead or know the worst day and skip it?
Would you rather learn one new thing every month or visit one new place every month?
Would you rather pick a word for the year or pick a song for the year?
Would you rather start the year with a clean garage or start the year with an empty inbox?
Would you rather stay up until midnight or go to bed at nine and wake up to a new year?
Would you rather tell everyone your resolution or keep it secret all year?
Would you rather watch the ball drop in person or watch fireworks from your own roof?The Times Square ball starts down at 11:59 p.m. and lands at midnight. The first drop welcomed 1908.
Would you rather write the wrong year until March or forget what day it is all January?
How it works
Make up every snow day in June or never get a snow day again? That is one of 140 winter would you rather questions about snow, sleds, hot drinks and animals. None mentions Christmas or another December holiday.
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Five topics, then the New Year
Snow days, Sleds, skates and skis, Hot drinks and warm-ups, Winter animals and Cold, ice and dark are the five topics. New Year and January marks 24 January and New Year's would you rather questions, 9 of them pairs, such as Eat twelve grapes at midnight or sing every verse of Auld Lang Syne. Adults get For adults: 10 winter cards on heating bills, scraping the windshield and the dark drive to work.
Easy for a warm-up, Hard for an argument
Easy has 72 quick picks. Hard holds the 17 where both options cost something, such as Be snowed in a week without power or be snowed in a month with power. Twelve cards carry a checked note in the list under the deck.
Open on Snow days at Easy: Win every snowball fight or never get hit by a snowball.
With This or that, name a wall for each option and let players walk to their pick.
Questions and answers
Is there any Christmas in this deck?
No. Every card is winter themed: weather, sports, food and animals, with no Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or Valentine's Day. For holiday cards, open the Christmas deck.
What are some winter this or that questions?
Sled or skates, Snowman or igloo, and Marshmallows or whipped cream are three of the 49 under This or that. Nine more are January this or that questions, such as Party hat or party horn.
Is there a winter set written for children?
Not here. The kids deck has a Winter topic with 20 snow cards in shorter words, and the kindergarten deck keeps every option to five words or fewer.