Table-wide prompts to get every guest talking.
If you could go back to school now, what would you study?
Dinner Party Host is for a table of people who don't all know each other yet. The questions are easy to answer in front of a group and interesting to hear from strangers: which famous city didn't live up to the hype, what you would be doing if not your current job, the best $100 you have ever spent.
Ask one between courses and go around the table, or leave a phone with the deck open in the middle. It stops the evening from splitting into the people who already know each other and everyone else.
Which famous city did not live up to the hype for you?
If you could have dinner with any historical figure, who would it be?
What is a food you hated as a child but love now?
Optimist or Pessimist: How do you view the next 50 years of humanity?
What book have you gifted the most often?
If you weren't in your current job, what would you be doing?
What piece of art (movie, painting, song) has moved you the most?
When people come over, which dish do you always fall back on?
How has your definition of success changed over the years?
What is the worst advice you have ever followed?
Which luxury in your life would you never give up?
How would your day fall apart without your one daily ritual?
What is a talent you wish you had?
What is the next big thing on your bucket list?
Would you rather be the funniest or the smartest person in the room?
Is social media a net positive or negative for society?
Where is "home" for you?
What quality do you value most in a new friend?
When did you take a real risk, and how did it land?
Which memory from your twenties is still vivid?
If you could go back to school now, what would you study?
Who has had the biggest influence on your life?
What still makes you nervous, even after doing it a hundred times?
If you could change one law, what would it be?
If you had a billion dollars, what cause would you support?
Would you go to Mars if you could never return?
Past or Future: Where would you visit?
What language do you wish you spoke fluently?
Your house is on fire and you can grab one object. Which one?
How would you describe your personal style?
New York, London, Tokyo, or Paris? Why?
How do you decompress after a long week?
Sell the table on the last great thing you watched.
What was the first concert you ever attended?
If you could only eat one cuisine for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Wine, Beer, or Cocktails?
Tell me about the best $100 you have ever spent.
What did you want to be when you were 10?
Do you work to live or live to work?
What gets you out of bed in the morning?
What is your Myers-Briggs or Enneagram type (if you know it)?
How is the skill you are trying to get better at coming along?
What current trend do you just not understand?
Are you hopeful for the planet's future?
Do you have a personal hero?
Do you have a favorite quote or mantra?
What is the best age you have been so far?
What is a topic you avoid at dinner parties?
Where have you eaten a meal you still talk about?
Invisibility or Flight?
Which era would you have fit into best?
Ocean or Mountains?
Do you learn by reading, listening, or doing?
What is something most people don't know about you?
What have you completely changed your mind about in the last ten years?
What does a perfect day look like to you?
You have done something genuinely hard this year. How did you get through it?
Do you consider yourself a lucky person?
Do you believe in soulmates?
Coffee or Digestif?
Going through every card takes about 25–40 min, but there's no need to finish in one sitting. The deck runs in your browser with nothing to install, and your place is saved on this device, so you can stop and pick it up later.