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Question cards

Icebreaker questions

The same cards you'll find on the tables in the network. Draw one, read it out loud, and let the other person answer first.

Question card

What brought you here today?

How to use them at a table

  • Ask the first question, then answer it too. Asking without sharing feels like a job interview.
  • Listen to the answer, don't rehearse yours. The best follow-ups come from what the other person just said.
  • You can pass. If a card doesn't fit, draw another. Nobody has to share what they don't want to.

All the questions

To get started

Light ones, for the first five minutes.

  1. What brought you here today?
  2. What's the best thing that happened to you this week?
  3. One small thing that made you smile today?
  4. Coffee, tea or neither? And why?
  5. What's your favourite spot in this city?
  6. What are you reading, watching or listening to these days?
  7. Morning or evening: when are you at your best?
  8. What's the dish you cook best?
  9. A place you'd go back to tomorrow?
  10. Do you have a Sunday ritual?
  11. What job would you do if money didn't matter?
  12. What makes you want to go out?

To get to know each other

Once the conversation is rolling.

  1. What makes you lose track of time?
  2. What was your favourite game as a kid?
  3. What are you learning these days?
  4. What's the best advice anyone ever gave you?
  5. What have you changed your mind about in recent years?
  6. Who taught you a lot without knowing it?
  7. What's a dream of yours, even a small one?
  8. What makes you feel at home?
  9. When was the last time you did something for the first time?
  10. If you could have dinner with anyone, who would you invite?
  11. A talent few people know you have?
  12. Something you did that you'd do again tomorrow?

For a laugh

When things need lightening up.

  1. Tell us about an embarrassing moment that makes you laugh now.
  2. What song do you belt out when nobody can hear?
  3. If you were a dish, which one would you be?
  4. What superpower would you want? And what weakness do you already have?
  5. Pineapple on pizza: yes or never?
  6. What film have you watched the most times?
  7. Tomorrow you get a surprise day off: what do you do?
  8. Your favourite word in your local dialect?
  9. The strangest object you keep at home?
  10. If you could live in another era, which would you pick?
  11. A useless skill you happen to be great at?
  12. Cats, dogs or plants?

Questions work best in person

An open table, a fixed time, someone asking "may I?". The cards are already there.

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