Truth or Dare Generator

The Truth or Dare Generator gives you one prompt at a time from a list of 438: 217 truth questions and 221 dares, split across Party, Hot, Funny and Friendly categories. Pick a category, press Truth, Dare or the Truth or Dare button that decides for you, and the prompt appears in a box under the buttons. It replaces the deck of cards or the app that everyone has to install.

How to use it

Choose one of five options at the top: Random (all four categories), Party, Hot, Funny or Friendly. Then press one of the three buttons. Truth pulls only from the truth questions in that category, Dare only from the dares, and Truth or Dare flips a coin first and then draws. The output box shows either "Truth" or "Dare" as a heading and the prompt beneath it. One prompt per press, no history, no skipping list, so if the group vetoes one you just press again.

What's in each category

Two things to know before you play with a mixed group. First, Random really does mean all four categories, so the Hot questions can come up; if there are teenagers or relatives at the table, select Friendly, Funny or Party explicitly. Second, there is no "extreme" setting. Hot is the most intense level here, and it's intense in the sexual sense rather than the dangerous-dare sense. None of the 221 dares involve alcohol, strangers or anything physically risky.

Ways people use it

• House parties and sleepovers. Put the page on a phone, pass it around, and let each player press for the person on their left.
• Couples' nights. Set Hot and alternate Truth and Dare. If you want questions rather than dares, the Question Generator for Couples is a calmer version of the same idea.
• Classroom and youth-group icebreakers. Friendly on its own is clean enough for a school setting; Funny adds physical dares that get a room laughing.
• Video calls. Truths work over a call when dares don't. Set the category, press Truth, and read it aloud.
• Mixing games. When truth or dare runs its course, switch to the Never Have I Ever Generator or the Would You Rather Generator, which draw from the same kind of prompt lists.

For a few standard rules that make the game run better: everyone gets one pass per game, dares have a 60-second limit unless the prompt says otherwise, and anyone who refuses both drinks water, does ten push-ups or takes a forfeit the group agreed on beforehand. Charades makes a good forfeit; the Random Charades Generator can supply the word. This tool lives with the rest of our fun, party & decision tools.