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Balance game is a challenge that gained popularity in Korea. The game is a mix between This or That and Would You Rather, and asks questions like “one best friend or multiple best friends” or “sneeze scrambled eggs or cry milk.” The purpose of this activity is to push folks out of their comfort zone and help players get to know each other better.
This challenge is a type of question game and combines elements of Would You Rather and This or That. This activity works well as a get to know you game or an online team building game.
This list includes:
- balance game questions for friends
- balance game questions for adults
- balance game questions for couples
- balance game questions for team building
- balance game questions for kids
- funny balance game questions
- serious balance game questions
- creative balance game questions
- strange balance game questions
Here we go!
Balance game questions for friends
- Your parents read your entire text history or your parents read every one of your internet searches
- Forever smell like french fry grease or forever smell like gasoline
- Be embarrassed in front of your crush or be embarrassed in front of your boss
- Go on a date to a dirty restaurant with someone amazing or go on a dream date somewhere unique with someone lame
- Become famous for something embarrassing or become rich for something unethical
- Be so cold you have goosebumps all over or be so hot you are sweating all over
- Burp nonstop for ten minutes or hiccup nonstop for an hour
- Have a catchy song stuck in your head for days or suddenly remember something embarrassing
- Have to listen to your favorite song on repeat until you get sick of it or never be able to listen to your favorite song again
- Be the “mom” friend or be the “party” friend
- A friend who makes you talk about your problems or a friend who distracts you from your problems
- Big group hangouts or one-on-one hangouts
- One best friend or multiple best friends
- Epic road trip or epic prank war
- Sweetness or sarcasm
- Have the same best friend for your whole life or have many interesting best friends throughout your life
- Hang out with your past self or hang out with your future self
Balance game questions for adults
- Have your own personal theme music or have your own personal narrator
- Have an itch that you can’t scratch or have something stuck in your teeth you can’t dislodge
- Reunite with your childhood best friend or reunite with your first girlfriend/boyfriend
- Read babies’ minds or read animals’ minds
- Live off nothing but vending machine food for a year or live off of nothing but canned goods for a year
- Ride in a car with a screaming child or ride in a car with an adult who shares way too much information
- The spinning rainbow buffering wheel or the dial-up modem sound
- Fully paid house or all expenses travel paid for five years
- Have a super memory or be able to learn things instantly
- Have a year off of work fully paid or never have to commute to work again
- Wearing two different shoes or wearing your shirt inside out
- Be completely alone for one month or be surrounded by people every minute for a week straight
- Have one great friend or have ten good friends
- Have a chauffeur or have a maid
- Have an epic in-home library or have an epic in-home movie theatre
- Have infinite energy or have infinite time
Balance game questions for couples
- Be separated from your true love for most of your life and reunite at the end of it, or spend most of your life with your love but lose them ten years before you die
- Have wedding canceled because of weather or have reception ruined by jealous ex
- Get ghosted by your dream date or be pestered by a date that went badly
- Date someone who hardly ever spoke or date someone who hardly ever shut up
- Your friends don’t like your significant other or your significant other’s friends don’t like you
- Go out constantly or hardly ever go out
- Know everyone who’s ever had a crush on you or know everyone who’s ever truly been in love with you
- Go on a date with someone who laughs at a serious story or go on a date with someone who doesn’t laugh at a funny video
- Have a super romantic date out or a super comfortable date at home
- Dating ex’s best friend or dating best friend’s ex
- Date a super slob or date a super neatfreak
- Your pet preferring your significant other or your family preferring your significant other
- Get a disappointing gift from your partner or give a disappointing gift to your partner
- Partner chews loudly or partner snores loudly
- Partner takes forever to get ready or partner insists on arriving everywhere a half hour early
- Partner hates your favorite food and doesn’t like you to eat it around them or your partner loves your favorite food and always eats most of it
- Partner puts their sweaty feet on you or your partner won’t stop staring at you when they think you’re not looking
- Partner takes a really long time in the bathroom or your partner is brief in the bathroom but leaves it smelly or messy
- Have ten kids or not have any kids
- Partner only calls you an embarrassing nickname or partner only calls you by your full, formal name
Balance game questions for team building
- Be at work at the crack of dawn or be at work at midnight
- Have to work with someone smelly or have to work with someone loud
- Unlimited coffee or unlimited snacks
- Work with a group or work independently
- Coworkers needlessly replying all to emails or meetings that could have been emails
- Public congratulations or private congratulations
- Creative work or analytical work
- Work from home full time or work in the office full time
- Jammed copier or dropped stack of papers
- Angry client or angry boss
- A job where you never travel or a job where you travel frequently
- Donuts in the breakroom or pizza in the breakroom
- Work in a quiet office or work in a bustling office
- Job where you sit a lot or job where you move a lot
- All office chairs are beanbag chairs or all office desks are standing desks
- Get paid well for a super boring job or get paid averagely for a super interesting job
- Overly hot office or overly cold office
- Lots of instructions or lots of freedom
- Be friends with everyone at work or have a few good friends in the office
- Ability to fast forward time or ability to pause time
- Quiet workplace or energetic workplace
- Written communication or verbal communication
Balance game questions for kids
- Have a bloody scab or have a giant booger
- Eat nothing but ice cream every day or eat nothing but pizza every day
- Only be able to shout or only be able to whisper
- You turn into an adult for one day or your parents turn into kids for one day
- Breathe underwater or breathe fire
- Be a rock star or be a movie star
- Pancakes for dinner or pizza for breakfast
- Forever kitten or a forever puppy
- Get to stay up late or get to sleep in late
- Live under the sea or live on the space station
- Be able to run super fast or be able to teleport
- Travel 100 years into the past or 100 years into the future
- Never eat chocolate again or never eat cheese again
- Have to do chores all day or have to run errands all day
- Have two birthdays a year or get to eat dessert first at every meal
- Run a big business or run a big charity
- Find the perfect hiding spot or make the perfect drawing
- Be able to control the weather or be able to control animals
- Have any pet you choose or live anywhere you like
Funny balance game questions
- Sneeze scrambled eggs or cry milk
- Poop your pants or have a stranger pee on your shoe
- Soil your pants in secret or sit in something that looks like poo and no one believes your story
- Sing a racy song in front of your grandma or say the word moist in front of your boss
- Invisible wedgie or toilet paper hanging out of the back of your pants
- Sleep in a room of creepy dolls or sleep in a room with a giant snake tank
- Nightmare where you are public speaking in your underwear or nightmare where you are back in high school on exam day
- Oversized hands or oversized head
- Be the only one who smells something bad or be the only one not to realize you smell
- Wear the same shirt a week in a row or wear the same underwear three days in a row
- Eat something too spicy or eat something too bland
- Be able to conjure objects from thin air or be able to instantly come up with witty comebacks for any situation
- Snort every time you laugh or have every chair you sit in make a fart noise
- Go on a date with a ventriloquist dummy or go on a date with someone in a morph suit
- Get caught picking your nose or get caught scratching your bum
- Really sweaty hands or really sweaty feet
- Every argument turns into a dance battle or every serious discussion turns into a puppet show
- Zits all over your back or a few zits on your face
- Speak only in a high squeaky voice or speak only in a deep baritone
Serious balance game questions
- Get blamed for something you didn’t do or watch someone innocent get blamed for your offense
- Fake your own death for your family’s lifelong financial security or live in a one-room apartment with your family for the rest of your life
- Live forever and see your loved ones die or die before your loved ones but have to watch them grieve
- Wind up on the news as a criminal or wind up on the news as a crime victim
- Find out your life was a Truman-show-style simulation or find out your life was a coma dream
- Eternal youth or early-life wisdom
- Do a great act and be forgotten or be remembered for a terrible deed
- Forgiveness from a family member or closure from a lost love
- Find meaningful work or become rich
- Get to know what the rest of your life will be like or learn the full truth of your past
- Have a sudden, painless death or find out that you’re dying in advance so that you can make peace
- Send a message to your future self or send a message to your past self
- Find out that your parent has a shocking secret or find out that your significant other has a shocking secret
- Be the only one to know a secret or be the only one not to know a secret
- Be feared or be loved
Creative balance game questions
- Mistake a celebrity for an ordinary person or mistake an ordinary person for a celebrity
- Be able to read a book in under a minute or be able to do any math question in your head in under a minute
- Travel to the beginning of time or travel to the end of time
- Relive the same day 100 times in a row or jump 10 years into the future
- Be able to learn anything instantly or be able to convince anyone of anything
- Lose your memory for five years or remember every embarrassing moment of your life in vivid detail
- Have a song written for you or have a dish named after you
- An ex writes a novel based on your relationship or your entire company gets a copy of your high school diary
- Travel to every country on Earth or travel to Mars once
- Be able to clone yourself or be able to switch lives with anyone on Earth
- Never trip in public again or never forget someone’s name again
- Erase your most embarrassing moment from your own memory or erase your most embarrassing moment from everyone else’s memory
Strange balance game questions
- Fight one horse-sized duck or 10 duck-sized horses
- Have to wear fuzzy cow slippers everywhere or have to wear lobster claw gloves everywhere
- Be possessed by a ghost or be abducted by an alien
- A hot actor plays a villainous version of you in a biopic or an strange-looking actor plays a heroic version of you in a biopic
- Your pet turns into a human for a day or you turn into a pet for a day
- Get a glimpse at future you or get a glimpse at you from an alternate dimension
- Have the power to make animals do your bidding or have an arsenal of high-tech gadgets
- Have to wear fuzzy pink socks for the rest of your life or have to wear thick black gloves for the rest of your life
- Get married in a chicken suit or attend a funeral in a chicken suit
- Forget how to tie your shoes or forget how to dress yourself
- Send a long text on an old flip phone or type a long report on a laptop with a broken spacebar
- Nonstop hiccups during a job interview or the feeling you are going to throw up on a date
- Step into quicksand or get lost in the Bermuda triangle
- Find out your life was a giant movie or find out your life was a long dream
Conclusion
Balance game is a fun way to push people out of their comfort zones and learn more about other players’ preferences. This challenge combines This or That and Would You Rather and forces folks to consider questions they may not have ever thought of otherwise. The game works well for team building icebreakers and is a way to entertain groups and pass the time at friendly gatherings.
Next check out these lists of rapidfire questions and what-if questions.
