🙃 Wrong Answers Only
Answer every question, but never correctly! "What color is grass?" "Purple!" It sounds easy until the questions speed up and your brain blurts out the real answer. It is a hilarious game of quick thinking and self-control.
What you need
Equipment: Nothing. Prepare about 20 very simple questions with obvious answers ("What color is grass?", "How many legs does a dog have?"). Sit in a circle.
How to play Wrong Answers Only
- Explain the backwards rule: you may not answer correctly. Every answer must be wrong.
- Ask the first player a question and immediately count 3, 2, 1.
- The player must give a wrong answer within 3 seconds.
- No "I don't know", no silence and no repeating an answer already given.
- Answered correctly by accident? You are out for the round.
- Did not answer in time? You are out for the round.
- Speed up and jump between players in random order to catch them off guard.
- Three players left? Ask extra-easy questions. That is where people slip up most.
Scoring and wrapping up
Scoring: Each good wrong answer: 1 point. A wrong answer that made everyone laugh: 2 points. Last player standing: 5 points.
To finish: When one player is left, they are the Champion of Nonsense. Finish with a round where the players ask the adult.
By age
- Ages 8-9: no one is out, just count the slip-ups.
- Ages 10 and up: 2-second limit and random order.
Variations
- Big group: two teams face off, and each team takes turns asking the other.
- Capy twist: wrong answers must all be from one category, like foods. "What color is the sky?" "Spaghetti!"
Tips for the adult in charge
- Questions where the answer pops into your head automatically work best.
- Mix in a few math questions, like "What is 2 plus 2?". Brains love to answer those correctly.
🖨️ Printable easy questions
Read them fast and in random order. Players must answer wrong within 3 seconds.
- ☐ What color is grass?
- ☐ How many legs does a dog have?
- ☐ What sound does a cow make?
- ☐ What is 2 plus 2?
- ☐ What do you drink when you're thirsty?
- ☐ What day comes after Monday?
- ☐ What color is the sky on a sunny day?
- ☐ What do you wear on your feet?
- ☐ How many fingers are on one hand?
- ☐ What animal says meow?
- ☐ What do you sleep in at night?
- ☐ What season comes after winter?
- ☐ What is frozen water called?
- ☐ What do bees make?
- ☐ What shape is a ball?
- ☐ What do you use to brush your teeth?
- ☐ What color is a banana?
- ☐ How many wheels does a bicycle have?
- ☐ What do you call a baby cat?
- ☐ What comes after the letter A?
- ☐ What is 10 minus 1?
- ☐ Where do fish live?
- ☐ What do you say when someone gives you a present?
- ☐ What is your name?
Questions and answers
Why is Wrong Answers Only good for kids?
It trains self-control and flexible thinking, because kids must stop the automatic answer and find another one fast. And it is very funny.
What questions work best?
Super easy ones with one obvious answer: colors, animal sounds, simple sums, days of the week. The easier the question, the harder it is to answer wrong.