This series of questions is designed to stimulate conversation, understand values, and have fun in the process. Ask several in a row or just one at a time. Let the participants defend their choice and most importantly, make sure they don’t answer with “neither one,” “both,” or “I don’t know.” Each camper (and the counselor!) must make a decision between the two choices.3
- Be rich or famous?
- Die by fire or drowning?
- Steal from an old lady or laugh out loud at a funeral?
- Sweat because of exercise or humidity?
- Watch TV or read a book?
- Drink Coke or Pepsi?
- Have the power to fly or disappear?
- Step in dog droppings barefoot or have a bird dropping hit you on your head?
- Have blistered lips or paper cuts on each finger?
- Give up your favorite food forever or TV for two years?
- Eat Mexican or Chinese food?
- Be bald or have no toes?
- Hang wallpaper or scrub floors?
- Eat too little and be hungry or too much and be sick?
- Die without warning or slowly, surrounded by family?
- Be obese or emaciated?
- Be embarrassed in front of friends or strangers?
- Wake up to music or an alarm?
- Live in the city or in the country?
- Have your leg or arm amputated?
- Be grossed out or frightened?
- Pay for a $100 traffic ticket or lose $100?
- Be hot or cold?
- Watch a drama or a comedy?
- Be 7’6’’ tall or 4’2’’?
- Own a cabin in the woods or a beach house?
- Wet your pants in private or pass gas in a crowded room?
- Go blind or deaf?
- Be trapped in an elevator or caught in bumper traffic?
- Be bald or have terrible acne?
- Have a housekeeper or a chauffeur?
- Have excessive nose or ear hair?
- Be gossiped about or lied to?
- Read fiction or nonfiction?
- Skydive or hang glide?
- Eat a bar of soap or drink a bottle of dish soap?
- Have a stupid haircut or a fat lip?
- Be known as arrogant or untrustworthy?
- Get a doctor’s shot or a dentist’s filling?
- Swim like a fish or fly like a bird?
- Be yelled at by a friend or stranger?
- Die by guillotine or firing squad?
- Be married to someone who can’t see or can’t hear?
- Have 12 kids or none?
- Lose both index fingers or six toes?
- Be nearsighted or farsighted?
- See your best friend go to jail for ten years or go yourself for a year?
- Have a large growth covering your face or never be able to talk to anybody else?
- Bite your tongue or burn it?
- Stay in one place and have lots of friends or travel all over and have just a few?
- Hit your knee on a table or your elbow on a corner?
- Step in Jell-O or mashed potatoes?
- Believe you are right, stand your ground, and have someone say “I hate you!” or compromise?
- Be trampled by humans during a riot or kicked around by a rodeo bull?
- Sneeze for an hour or hiccup for an hour?
- Walk under a ladder or step on a crack?
- Wear someone else’s dirty socks or dirty shirt?
- Live in fear or die in bravery?
- Give your time or your money?
- Be convicted of something you didn’t do or see someone else convicted for something you did?
- Walk three miles to school every day or be dropped off in front of your friends at school with an old beat-up clunker?
- Wear a hairpiece or dentures?
- Be double-crossed by a friend or beat up by a stranger?
- Have a runny nose or a stuffed-up nose?
- Be a librarian or a chemist?
- Scratch a chalkboard or bite down on tinfoil?
- Work outside with your hands or indoors behind a desk?
- Get caught cheating or lying?
- Be a teacher or a student?
- Be misunderstood or misinformed?
- Be asked out by someone you don’t like or be turned down by someone you do like?
- Be a blonde or a redhead?
- Live in a tent in the desert or in Antarctica?
- Be a doctor or a lawyer?
- Read a book or play a video game?
- Travel by bus or by train?
- Die in a plane wreck or die of pneumonia?
- Eat a Big Mac or a Whopper?
- Throw up or hiccup for 24 hours?
- Be a mouse or a lion?
- Be blind or mute?
- Have $100 a week for the rest of your life or $50,000 now?
- Own a Ford or a Chevy?
- Eat cake or ice cream?
- Date a Christian or a non-Christian?
- Skip the next year of your life or live the last one again?
- Own a dog or a cat?
- Be a star basketball player or a star football player?
- Be a teacher or a preacher?
- Be a bum who has to beg or a person on welfare?
- Own a home in the mountains or a home on the beach?
- Be known for your smarts or for your personality?
- Be known for your looks or for you personality?
- Be known for your looks or for your smarts?
- Have more money than time or more time than money?
- Go to the mall or to a swap meet?
- Look stupid or be stupid?
- Play a sport or watch the sport?
- Have a friend get mad at you or a stranger get mad at you?
- Have 10 children or no children?
- Be an only child or one of 10 children?
- Be friends with Gideon or Samson?
- Be known as a Pharisee or a publican?