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Hypotheticals & What-Ifs Table Topics Questions

22 questions · updated 2026-09-02

Imagined situations that reveal values and imagination. Every question below is open-ended and answerable in a 1 to 2 minute impromptu speech. Draw one at random, or scroll for the full list.

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What would you do with a year of guaranteed income and no obligations?

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All 22 hypotheticals & what-ifs questions

  1. If you could relive one ordinary day from your past, which would you choose? Time this
  2. What would you do with a year of guaranteed income and no obligations? Time this
  3. Which new language would you want to wake up fluent in tomorrow, and why? Time this
  4. How would your life change if you could never use a clock again? Time this
  5. What one sentence would you send to yourself ten years ago? Time this
  6. What would you build if you owned an empty plot of land in the middle of town? Time this
  7. If animals could talk for one day, which one would you want a conversation with? Time this
  8. How would you spend a day in which nobody could see you? Time this
  9. Which subject would you teach if you had to run a class on anything tomorrow? Time this
  10. If you could master any one skill instantly, what would you choose and what would you do first? Time this
  11. If every person got one free wish granted at birth, what should yours have been? Time this
  12. How would the world be different if everyone had to sleep at the same time? Time this
  13. If you could swap lives with a neighbor for a week, what would you hope to learn? Time this
  14. What would you put in a time capsule to be opened in one hundred years? Time this
  15. Which cause or joy would a brand-new holiday of your own invention celebrate? Time this
  16. How would you spend your time if you knew you would live to two hundred? Time this
  17. If your house could talk, what story would it tell about you? Time this
  18. What would you change about your town if you were in charge of it for a day? Time this
  19. If you could witness one moment from history in person, how would you choose? Time this
  20. What would you do if you had to move to another country next month? Time this
  21. Which small daily annoyance would you erase forever, given the chance? Time this
  22. How would your friendships change if nobody could ever tell a lie? Time this

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