Random Question Generator

How to use the random question generator

1. Pick categories and depth. Icebreakers and Work & teams are on by default, at Light and Medium depth. Press any category or depth to add or remove it.
2. Press Next question or the Space bar. The question appears on a big card with its category.
3. Add who answers (optional). Under Who answers, list the people in the meeting; each question names the next person.
4. Add an answer timer (optional). Choose 30, 60, 90 or 120 seconds under Answer timer; it starts with each question and chimes at zero.
5. Prefer a list? Switch Show to List, choose How many (up to 20), and press New list — then Copy, Download .txt or Print it for a workshop.

Questions you’ve seen don’t come back, even after a reload: this browser remembers them until every matching question has come up, then a new round starts. Reset starts one early, and Clear my data forgets them.

Question categories

• Icebreakers — light openers for any group: favorite snacks, the best part of the week.
• Work & teams — how people like to work, wins, habits and advice, for stand-ups and team days.
• Would you rather — two options, such as working from a beach or a mountain cabin.
• This or that — quick pairs like coffee or tea, early bird or night owl; great for a show of hands.
• Hypothetical — “if you could…” questions that start conversations.
• Funny — useless talents, strange food combinations and other things worth a laugh.
• Deep & reflective — for groups who know each other: lessons learned, what matters, what you’d tell your younger self.
• Retrospective — what went well, what slowed us down, what to try next sprint.
• Remote warm-ups — questions that work through a camera: the view from your window, the object within arm’s reach.
• Get to know you — background, hobbies and stories, for new teams and onboarding.

Picking who answers

A fair rotation stops the same confident voices from answering first every time. The tool shuffles your list, goes through it once, then shuffles again, making sure the last person of one round isn’t first in the next. With five people and twelve questions, everyone answers two or three times. To pick a single person for something else, the random name picker does that with a reveal.

Question of the day

The Question of the day box above the card shows one question that is the same for everyone on the same date, so a whole team can answer it in a chat channel. It comes from the light and medium work-safe questions in Icebreakers, Work & teams, Remote warm-ups and Get to know you. No random pick is involved: the date chooses it. Click the box to copy “Question of the day: …” for your team chat. After 157 days the list starts again.

Tips for icebreakers that don’t feel awkward

• Go first yourself with a short, honest answer — it sets the length and tone.
• Keep it optional. Let people pass with Skip person; a relaxed “pass” is better than a forced answer.
• Match depth to trust. Light questions for new groups, Medium once people know each other, Deep only when the group has asked for it.
• Time-box it. A 60-second answer timer keeps a ten-person round under fifteen minutes.
• Use one question for everyone in big groups, or rotate questions in small ones.

Topics or questions?

A question asks people for a direct answer, usually in a sentence or two — perfect for going round a room. If you need a subject someone can speak or write about for a few minutes, use the random topic generator instead. For a full quiz with points, build one with the quiz board maker — its Random trivia tab also serves questions with answers. For an active warm-up, try the charades generator or quick rounds with the random word generator.