📝 What Will Everyone Say?
The host asks a simple question like "Name a fruit", but the goal is not to write your own answer. You write what you think most of the group will write. It is a great way to see how a group thinks, and it creates lots of "No way, you too?" moments.
What you need
Equipment: Paper and a pen for each player. Give each player paper and a pen. Prepare 12 to 15 short questions with a few obvious answers, such as "Name a scary animal" or "The best pizza topping".
How to play What Will Everyone Say?
- Explain the goal: do not write what you think, write what most people will write.
- The host reads a question out loud.
- Each player writes one answer quietly within 15 seconds, with no talking.
- When time is up, everyone holds up their paper at once.
- The host reads all the answers aloud and counts them.
- The most common answer is the group's answer.
- Everyone who wrote it scores.
- If two answers tie, both count.
Scoring and wrapping up
Scoring: You wrote the group's answer: 2 points. Your answer was the only one of its kind: 1 point for originality. Everyone wrote the same thing: 3 points for all.
To finish: After 12 questions, add up the scores and announce both the Group Mind Reader and the Most Original Thinker.
By age
- Ages 8-10: use concrete categories like colors, animals and foods.
- Ages 11+: try opinion questions, such as "The most annoying sound" or "The best day of the week".
Variations
- Big group: play in teams of three, each team writing one agreed answer.
- Capy twist: Capy's odd one out. For one question, you score only if your answer is different from everyone else's.
- Family edition: ask questions about the family, such as "Who in our family sings most in the car?"
Tips for the adult in charge
- Questions with many possible answers work best. If everyone will say the same thing, the round is dull.
- Read the answers with drama. The reveal is where the laughs are.
🖨️ Printable 'What will everyone say' question cards
Read one card per round. Everyone writes the answer they think the group will give.
- Name a fruit.
- The tastiest pizza topping
- Name a scary animal.
- A good name for a dog
- Name a sport.
- Something you find in a fridge
- The best ice cream flavor
- Name a color of the rainbow.
- Something you take to the beach
- A famous superhero
- The best day of the week
- Something that is always cold
- An animal that lives on a farm
- A breakfast food
- Something with wheels
- The most annoying sound
- Something you do before bed
- A thing that can fly
- A vegetable kids don't like
- Something you wear in winter
Questions and answers
Is this the same as the board game Herd Mentality?
It is based on the same idea: everyone tries to match the most common answer. This version needs only paper and pens.
What questions work for 'What will everyone say'?
Short category questions with several common answers: a fruit, a pet name, a sport, something in a fridge, a superhero.