Printable Thanksgiving Would You Rather Questions

These free printable Thanksgiving would you rather questions are the easiest game to run at the dinner table: print the cards, read one out loud, and let everyone defend their pick.

No setup, no pieces to lose, no wrong answers. There are 20 questions across two pages, and they land for a table of kids and a table of adults alike.

I keep a copy at each end of a long table so nobody’s waiting on one sheet, and I let a kid be the reader — they love running it.

It’s a would-you-rather game to play, which is a different job from our Thanksgiving conversation starters: those are open-ended prompts to keep dinner talking, while these are quick this-or-that arguments that get loud fast.

Thanksgiving Would You Rather for Kids

The silly, low-stakes questions are the ones that get a table of kids genuinely worked up.

“Ride a turkey to dinner or fly on a giant dinner roll?” is the kind of thing a seven-year-old will debate with real conviction.

Read one, go around the table so everyone answers. It works just as well as a no-prep classroom warm-up the week before break.

Want more? Keep the fun going with Thanksgiving Charades, Thanksgiving Pictionary, or Thanksgiving Scattegories — or try puzzles like Thanksgiving Word Scramble and Thanksgiving Word Search. Print a couple and you’ve got a full evening of things to do between the meal and the pie that aren’t a screen.

Thanksgiving Would You Rather for Adults

The grown-up table gets the trickier trade-offs: “Cook the whole meal or do all the dishes?” “Go without gravy or without rolls?”

These start real, funny arguments between people who’ve known each other for decades.

It works especially well at a Friendsgiving where not everyone knows each other — the answers are little windows into people, and they get the table laughing fast.

How to Play at the Dinner Table

There’s no setup. Read a question, go around the table, everyone answers and defends their pick. That’s it — and the tangents are the point, so let them run. For a livelier version (great in a classroom), name one side of the room “A” and the other “B” and have everyone physically move to the side that matches their answer.

• Download and print the PDF (two pages, portrait, standard 8.5 x 11 — prints clearly in color or black-and-white)
• Print a copy for each end of a long table so nobody’s waiting
• Cut the questions into cards if you want to pass them around a bowl
• Laminate to reuse year after year
• Great for the car ride to family gatherings, too

What’s in the Printable

• PDF file, instant download
• Two pages, portrait orientation (standard 8.5 x 11)
• 20 Thanksgiving would you rather questions total
• Ready to print at home — color or black-and-white
• Editable Canva template also available

🦃 More Thanksgiving Table Games

If would-you-rather goes over well, keep the table games coming. Thanksgiving conversation starters and Thanksgiving mad libs round out the dinner-table set — one keeps the conversation going, the other turns the group’s silliest words into a story. Thanksgiving emoji pictionary is the quiet, phone-friendly option for the teens, and a matching Thanksgiving table place card sets each seat before the game even starts.

All the Thanksgiving Would You Rather Questions

Here’s the full set so kids can read them straight off the page — no download required. Would you rather…

Page 1 – the food fights:

• Eat only turkey OR eat only mashed potatoes?
• Have pumpkin pie every day OR apple pie every day?
• Eat Thanksgiving dinner with your hands OR with chopsticks?
• Eat burnt pie OR undercooked stuffing?
• Have Thanksgiving lunch OR Thanksgiving dinner?
• Have no dessert OR no side dishes?
• Put cranberry sauce on everything OR gravy on everything?
• Cook the whole meal OR do all of the dishes?
• Eat at the kids’ table OR the grown-ups’ table?
• Eat a giant turkey leg OR a mountain of mashed potatoes?

Page 2 – the silly ones:

• Dress like a turkey OR a cob of corn?
• Run in a turkey trot OR watch a Thanksgiving parade?
• Sit by the fireplace OR play in a pile of leaves?
• Visit a pumpkin patch OR a corn maze?
• Go Black Friday shopping OR stay home in pajamas?
• Have Thanksgiving in summer OR Halloween in winter?
• Have a heatwave on Thanksgiving day OR snow on Thanksgiving?
• Go without gravy OR without rolls?
• Ride a turkey to dinner OR fly on a giant dinner roll?
• Gobble like a turkey OR waddle like a turkey?

🦃 More Thanksgiving Games and Activities

You can keep the fun going with other games like Thanksgiving Charades, Thanksgiving Pictionary, or Thanksgiving Scattegories. Also try puzzles like Thanksgiving Word Scramble or Thanksgiving Word Search.