155 Truth or Dare Questions and 120 Dares for Friends, Teens, Kids and Couples (Kind and Clean)

By The Rondovo team · Published August 7, 2026 · Updated October 11, 2026 · 19 min read

Truth or dare is a turn-taking game: on your turn you choose truth, and answer a question honestly, or dare, and do a small challenge in front of the group. Below are 155 original truth questions and 120 dares, grouped for friends, teens, kids, couples and clean adult groups, plus a set of dares that work on a video call. Every one was written for this page.

The dares are silly, never risky: nothing that hurts, nothing that involves strangers, nothing posted online, and nothing that leaves someone feeling laughed at instead of laughed with. The safety rules further down are short and worth reading to the group before you start.

In short

• How it works: the asker says "truth or dare?", the player picks, the asker reads a question or a dare from the right list.
• Players: 3 to 10 is best. With more, split into two circles.
• Time: around 2 minutes per turn, so a round of eight players takes about 15 minutes.
• Golden rule: any dare can be swapped for a truth, and any truth can be swapped for a different truth. No questions asked.
• Jump to: truths for friends, teens, kids, couples, adults, dares, video call dares.

How to play truth or dare

1. Sit in a circle. Spin a bottle, a pen or a spoon to choose who goes first, or just go round to the left.
2. Ask "truth or dare?" The player whose turn it is chooses.
3. Give a truth or a dare. The asker picks one from the lists below, or the group picks one together. Read it out once, clearly.
4. Answer or do it. Truths get an honest answer. Dares get done right then, with a 60 second limit on anything that takes time.
5. Pass it on. The player who just went asks the next person. Keep going until everyone has had three or four turns.

Two in a row, then switch. A nice house rule: nobody can choose truth more than twice in a row, and nobody can choose dare more than twice in a row. It keeps the game balanced between talking and doing.

Safety rules (read these out first)

Truth or dare goes wrong in the same few ways every time. These rules prevent all of them.

• Any dare can be swapped. If a player doesn't want to do a dare, they take a truth instead. No booing, no forfeits, no "chicken" talk.
• Nothing that hurts. No eating anything that isn't food, no spicy food challenges, no holding your breath, no climbing, no dares near roads, water or stairs.
• Nothing that humiliates. A dare should make the room laugh with the player. If the only joke is that someone looks foolish, it's not a dare.
• No strangers, no posting. No messaging people outside the room, no prank calls, nothing filmed and shared. What happens in the circle stays there.
• No touching without a yes. Dares that involve another player need that player to agree too.
• Truths can be passed. If a question lands on something painful, the player says "next" and the asker picks another. Nobody explains why.
• The host can veto. Before reading any dare, the host can say "not that one". Use it.

Truth questions for friends

Personal enough to learn something new, light enough that nobody leaves upset.

1. What's the most useless talent you have?
2. What's a film everyone loves that you secretly can't stand?
3. Which of your habits would you never admit to a first date?
4. What's the longest you've gone without replying to a message, and why?
5. What's the strangest thing you believed as a child?
6. If you could swap lives with someone in this room for a day, who and why?
7. What's the last thing you searched for online?
8. What's a food you pretend to like?
9. Who was your first celebrity crush?
10. What's the most money you've spent on something you never used?
11. What's the worst haircut you've ever had?
12. What's your most irrational fear?
13. Have you ever pretended to be ill to skip something? What was it?
14. Which of your friends would you call first in an emergency?
15. What's a song you know every word of but would never admit to liking?
16. What's the best compliment you've ever had?
17. What's the most awkward thing that has happened to you on public transport?
18. What do you think people get wrong about you on first meeting?
19. What's the biggest lie you told as a kid?
20. If you had to delete every app but three, which three would you keep?
21. What's your guilty pleasure TV show?
22. Who in this room do you think would survive longest on a desert island?
23. What's the silliest thing you've cried at?
24. What's a hobby you started and quit within a week?
25. What's the most childish thing you still do?
26. What's the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?
27. When did you last laugh so hard it hurt?
28. What's something you've always wanted to try but haven't yet?
29. What's the worst gift you've ever received, and did you say thank you?
30. Which fictional character are you most like?
31. What was your first job, and what was the worst part?
32. What's the most trouble you got into at school?
33. If you could master one skill overnight, what would it be?
34. What would your autobiography be called?
35. What's one thing on your bucket list that would surprise us?

Truth questions for teens

For sleepovers and hangouts. They are about school, friends and growing up, with nothing that could become gossip on Monday.

36. Who's the teacher you'd most like to have as an aunt or uncle?
37. What's the most embarrassing thing that has happened to you in a lesson?
38. What's the last thing that made you laugh out loud?
39. What's a rule at home you think is unfair?
40. What job do you want when you're 30?
41. What's the weirdest thing in your bedroom right now?
42. Which subject would you delete from school forever?
43. What's the worst excuse you've ever given for late homework?
44. Who's someone you look up to, and why?
45. What's a trend you joined and now regret?
46. What's your most played song this month?
47. If you could be famous for one thing, what would it be?
48. What's something your parents don't know you're good at?
49. What's the longest you've spent getting ready to go out?
50. Which of your friends is most likely to become famous?
51. What's your worst cooking disaster?
52. What did you want to be when you were six?
53. Have you ever been caught talking to yourself?
54. What's a secret talent nobody here knows about?
55. If you could change one thing about your school, what would it be?
56. What's your most-used emoji, and what does it say about you?
57. What's the best day you've had this year?
58. Which video game or app have you spent the most hours on?
59. Have you ever pretended to understand a joke you didn't get?
60. What would you do with a whole day and no adults around?
61. What's a word you always spell wrong?
62. Who in your family are you most like?
63. What's the bravest thing you've done?
64. What's the funniest thing a teacher has said in class?
65. What's something small that always makes your day better?

Truth questions for kids

For ages 6 to 11. Short, easy to answer and silly. Kids also love asking these to the grown-ups.

66. What's your favourite animal and why?
67. If you could have any superpower, what would it be?
68. What's the funniest dream you remember?
69. Which food would you eat for every meal if you could?
70. What's the naughtiest thing you've ever done?
71. If you could be any cartoon character, who would you be?
72. What's the scariest thing you've ever seen?
73. What's your favourite thing about your best friend?
74. If you had a pet dragon, what would you call it?
75. What would you buy if you had a hundred pounds?
76. What's the best present you've ever been given?
77. What do you want to be when you grow up?
78. Who is the funniest person in your family?
79. What's your favourite joke?
80. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?
81. What's your least favourite vegetable?
82. If you were a teacher for a day, what would you teach?
83. What's the silliest thing you've ever worn?
84. Have you ever blamed something on your brother, sister or a pet?
85. If you could talk to one animal, which one would it be?
86. What's your favourite game to play outside?
87. Which day of the year do you like best?
88. What's the best thing about being a kid?
89. If you could invent a new sweet, what would it taste like?
90. What makes you laugh every single time?
91. What's something you're really proud of?
92. If you could make one new rule at home, what would it be?
93. What's your favourite book or story?
94. What would you do if you were invisible for a day?
95. What's the weirdest thing you've ever eaten?

Truth questions for couples

For a date night, a long drive or a couples' game night. Sweet, funny and occasionally revealing, never a trap that ends in an argument.

96. What did you think of me the first time we met?
97. What's your favourite memory of us so far?
98. What's one thing I do that always makes you smile?
99. When did you first realise you liked me?
100. What's a habit of mine you secretly find adorable?
101. What's a habit of mine you'd quietly retire if you could?
102. Where would your dream holiday with me be?
103. What's one thing you've never told me about your childhood?
104. Which song reminds you of us?
105. What's the best meal we've had together?
106. What did you nearly say on our first date but didn't?
107. If we wrote a book about us, what would it be called?
108. What's something you'd like us to learn together?
109. What's the most romantic thing anyone has done for you?
110. What did you tell your friends about me after our first date?
111. What's a tradition you'd like us to start?
112. What's my most annoying phrase?
113. What's one thing you think I'm better at than you?
114. If we swapped lives for a day, what would you do first?
115. What's your favourite photo of us?
116. Who said "I love you" first, and was it planned?
117. What's a small thing I did that meant a lot to you?
118. What's one place you'd like to show me from your past?
119. What's the funniest argument we've ever had?
120. What do you think we'll be doing in ten years?
121. Which of my friends do you like most?
122. What was your first impression of my family?
123. What's a gift you secretly hope I'll give you one day?
124. What's the best surprise I've ever given you?
125. What's one thing you'd like more of from me?

Clean truth questions for adults

Grown-up questions without anything explicit: careers, regrets, money mishaps, ambitions and the odd confession. Good for dinner parties and groups that don't all know each other well.

126. What's the worst job you've ever had?
127. What's a decision you made at 20 that you're glad you made?
128. What's the most expensive mistake you've ever made?
129. What would you do if you didn't have to work for a year?
130. What's the best advice you've ever ignored?
131. What's the oldest item of clothing you still wear?
132. What's a skill you pretend to have at work?
133. What would your 16 year old self think of you now?
134. What's something you've bought only because of an advert?
135. Which teacher or boss changed your life?
136. What's the longest you've gone without speaking to anyone?
137. What's a household task you always avoid?
138. If you could restart your career, what would you do?
139. What's the most impulsive thing you've done?
140. What's the strangest place you've fallen asleep?
141. Which friend would you trust to plan your birthday?
142. What's a belief you've changed your mind about in the last five years?
143. What's the most famous person you've ever met?
144. What do you spend money on that other people think is a waste?
145. What's the best holiday you've ever had, and the worst?
146. If you had a theme tune, what would it be?
147. What's the hardest thing you've ever learned to do?
148. What's something you're proud of that nobody ever asks about?
149. What's a small luxury you'd never give up?
150. What's a lie you tell often to be polite?
151. What's the most adventurous thing you've eaten?
152. Who's someone you lost touch with and would like to call?
153. What's your secret comfort meal?
154. What would you like to be remembered for?
155. If tonight was a film, what genre would it be?

Dares for friends

Every dare should be finished in a minute and leave the player laughing. Swap any one that doesn't suit the room.

1. Do your best impression of someone in the room until somebody guesses who it is.
2. Talk in an accent of the group's choosing until your next turn.
3. Sing the chorus of any song as if it were an opera.
4. Do ten star jumps while saying the alphabet backwards.
5. Let the group give you a new nickname for the rest of the game.
6. Narrate what the person to your left is doing like a nature documentary for 30 seconds.
7. Do a dramatic reading of a recipe or shopping list as if it were a love letter.
8. Walk across the room like a catwalk model.
9. Tell a joke. If nobody laughs, tell another one.
10. Invent a dance move and teach it to the group.
11. Speak only in questions until your next turn.
12. Balance a book on your head for one minute.
13. Do an advert for an object the group chooses from the room.
14. Hold a plank while the group counts to 20 slowly.
15. Pretend to be a waiter and take everyone's order.
16. Draw a portrait of the person on your right with your eyes closed.
17. Do your best evil laugh.
18. Act out a famous film scene without words until someone guesses it.
19. Speak like a robot for the next three rounds.
20. Give a heartfelt award speech for "best person at sitting on this sofa".
21. Name ten fruits in fifteen seconds.
22. Freeze like a statue every time someone says your name, until your next turn.
23. Do your best impression of a famous cartoon character.
24. Try to lick your elbow (it's harder than it sounds).
25. Commentate on the next player's turn like a sports commentator.

Dares for teens

26. Do your best impression of a famous online video maker until someone guesses who it is.
27. Do a TV weather report for your bedroom.
28. Let someone style your hair however they like for the rest of the game.
29. Speak in a whisper for the next three rounds.
30. Do a 30 second stand-up routine about school dinners.
31. Moonwalk across the room.
32. Pretend to be a news reader announcing your own birthday.
33. Make up a rap about the person on your left (kind words only).
34. Wear your socks on your hands until your next turn.
35. Walk like a penguin to the kitchen and back.
36. Try to say "red lorry, yellow lorry" five times fast.
37. Do your best teacher impression (no names).
38. Invent a handshake with the person opposite.
39. Talk like a pirate until your next turn.
40. Hum a song and see if anyone can name it within 20 seconds.
41. Do a slow motion replay of the last goal you saw, or invent one.
42. Pretend to be a tour guide showing everyone around the room.
43. Draw a self portrait in 30 seconds.
44. Hold an imaginary press conference about what you had for breakfast.
45. Do an interpretive dance of your morning routine.

Dares for kids

Safe, short and silly, for ages 6 to 11. Always with a grown-up in the room.

46. Hop on one foot while saying your name ten times.
47. Make the funniest face you can and hold it for ten seconds.
48. Pretend to be a monkey until someone laughs.
49. Sing "Happy Birthday" to the sofa.
50. Walk like a crab across the room.
51. Do your best lion roar.
52. Talk like a baby until your next turn.
53. Pretend to be a chicken laying an egg.
54. Walk across the room balancing a cushion on your head.
55. Give someone in the room a compliment in a silly voice.
56. Do a dance with no music.
57. Pretend you're swimming across the floor.
58. Tell everyone your favourite joke.
59. Act like a cat that wants food.
60. Do five frog jumps.
61. Say the alphabet in a robot voice.
62. Pretend to be a superhero and show us your power.
63. Wear a sock on your ear until your next turn.
64. Do an impression of a teacher reading a story.
65. Try to make someone laugh without talking.
66. Pretend to be a statue in a museum for 30 seconds.
67. Describe your dream ice cream in a chef's voice.
68. Waddle like a duck and quack.
69. Make up a song about your favourite food.
70. Balance a spoon on your nose for as long as you can.

Dares for couples

Playful and affectionate, all of them fine in front of friends.

71. Serenade your partner with one line of any song.
72. Recreate your first meeting in 30 seconds.
73. Give your partner a 30 second shoulder rub (if they want one).
74. Describe your partner using only food words.
75. Do your best impression of your partner getting ready in the morning.
76. Slow dance together for one full song chorus.
77. Write your partner a four-line poem on the spot.
78. Let your partner pick your accent for the next three rounds.
79. Tell the story of your first date as a fairy tale.
80. Do a 30 second advert selling your partner's best qualities.
81. Draw your partner in one minute, then let them sign it.
82. Swap one item of clothing with your partner until the end of the game.
83. Name five things you love about your partner in 15 seconds.
84. Teach your partner a dance move they have never seen.
85. Propose a toast to your relationship in the style of a news report.

Clean dares for adults

For dinner parties and mixed groups: performance dares rather than embarrassment dares.

86. Give a two minute TED-style talk on a topic the group picks.
87. Do a cooking show demonstration of making toast, without any toast.
88. Read a page of any book in the room as a horror film trailer.
89. Do your best impression of your boss (no names, no workplace details).
90. Pretend to sell the host's house to the group as an estate agent.
91. Explain the rules of a sport you don't know as if you're an expert.
92. Do a magic trick, even if you don't know one.
93. Sing a song using only "la".
94. Describe your job as if you're on a children's TV show.
95. Do a dramatic weather forecast for the next week of your life.
96. Pick a stranger from a magazine photo and tell their life story.
97. Give a movie trailer voice-over for your weekend plans.
98. Do the robot for 20 seconds.
99. Invent a cocktail-free mocktail from the kitchen and name it.
100. Describe the room as a five-star restaurant critic.

Online and video call dares

For Zoom, Google Meet, FaceTime or any group call. Every one works through a webcam, and nobody has to leave the house or share anything private.

101. Show the group the oldest object in the room you're in.
102. Put on a hat, scarf and sunglasses in under 30 seconds.
103. Do your next turn with a sock puppet.
104. Change your background or display name to something the group chooses until the end of the call.
105. Hold a pet, plant or teddy up to the camera and introduce it.
106. Do a 20 second dance with your camera on.
107. Draw a picture of the person who asked the dare and hold it up.
108. Find something blue in under ten seconds and show it.
109. Speak in rhymes until your next turn.
110. Act out an animal and let the call guess.
111. Do a dramatic reading of the back of a cereal box or any packet near you.
112. Give a tour of your desk like a museum guide.
113. Turn your camera sideways (or tilt your head to match) for one round.
114. Make a sandwich board sign that says something nice about the group and wear it.
115. Mime eating a meal while the others guess what it is.
116. Do your best impression of a laggy video call.
117. Sing a line of any song with your microphone muted and let everyone guess it.
118. Wear something on your head for the rest of the call.
119. Hold up a sign with your answer to "what's for dinner?" and defend it.
120. Show the strangest thing in your fridge.

Hosting tips

• Agree the level before you start. Say out loud whether tonight is kids, teens, couples or clean adults, and stick to that list.
• Go first as the host. Pick dare, do something silly, and the room relaxes.
• Pre-write a bowl of cards. Players asking off the top of their heads is how dares get out of hand. Cards from the lists above keep it on track.
• Keep a prop box. Hats, scarves, a spoon, a book, a sock. Half the dares above get funnier with props.
• Watch the quiet players. If someone chooses truth every time, that's fine. Don't push. Give them an easy, fun truth and move on.
• End on a dare. Finish with a group dare (everyone does their best evil laugh at once) so the game ends with noise, not a confession.

For a sleepover, truth or dare fits nicely between a film and lights out. Our sleepover games list has what to play before and after.

Playing truth or dare on a video call or TV

Video calls are actually good for truth or dare, because the webcam frames each dare like a little show. Use gallery view, keep a shared list open in the chat, and let the player who just went choose the next person by name.

Rondovo doesn't have a truth or dare game. If your group wants the "truth" side with a winner attached, Two Truths is the closest (our two truths and a lie guide has the rules and examples for the spoken version): each player types two true statements and a lie about themselves on their own screen, the room votes on which one is the lie, and points go to the people who spot it and the players who fool everyone. For the "dare" side, Act It Out is our take on charades in teams, where the other team picks your word and you act it without speaking. Both are free: the host makes a room, everyone joins at rondovo.com on their own screen with the four letter code, and a TV is optional. On a video call, each person opens the room on their own device, so nobody has to share a screen.

Face Up is another good one for a lively group: you hold your screen to your forehead and everyone describes the word you can't see. For more question games written to the same rules, try our never have I ever questions and would you rather questions, or browse the whole party games guide.

Questions people ask

How do you play truth or dare?

Players sit in a circle and take turns. On your turn, someone asks "truth or dare?" If you choose truth, you answer a question honestly. If you choose dare, you do a short challenge. Then you ask the next player. It needs no equipment and works for 3 to 10 people.

What are good truth questions to ask friends?

Ones that reveal something fun rather than something painful: a useless talent, a film you secretly hate, your first celebrity crush, the worst gift you've ever received. The friends section above has 35.

What are good dares that are not embarrassing?

Performance dares work best: talk in an accent, do an advert for an object in the room, narrate someone like a nature documentary, act out a film scene. The player is the star, not the joke.

What are some good truth or dare questions for kids?

Simple, imaginative ones: your favourite animal, the superpower you'd pick, the silliest thing you've worn, what you'd invent. Pair them with silly dares like walking like a crab or doing your best lion roar. The kids lists above have 30 truths and 25 dares.

How do you play truth or dare online?

Get everyone on a video call in gallery view, paste a list of truths and dares into the chat, and take turns. Pick dares that work through a webcam, like changing your background, introducing a pet or miming a meal. The 20 video call dares above were written for that.

Can you refuse a dare in truth or dare?

You should always be able to. The fairest rule is that any dare can be swapped for a truth, with no penalty. A game where people feel forced into dares stops being fun quickly.

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