7 Social Games to fire up a creative & fun conversation đ€©
Getting to know people can be exhausting. But if you switch things up using social games, you'll laugh, bond and have fun. Give it a try!

Conversations can be pretty exhausting. Especially when you keep skimming the surface. Youâre not really getting out of the boring part of small talk.
This can happen when you are in a small group â where you know the people â but donât really know them. Like colleagues â you see them every day, talk a bit, but donât now anything about them. Or for example friends of friends, people you meet on holiday, etc. Somehow, despite being interested, you canât relax, connect or have fun together.
Maybe itâs not your day. Or your colleagues donât want to talk. But it is taxing carrying such conversation. At a certain moment you are all out of quarters. How can you still make a chat more fun?
Play some social games!
Let me present a few social games to spice up conversation. These games are made to go beyond the ossified patterns of small talk. Instead the games force you think and talk out of the box.
With all these social games, the challenge is to blurt out something as soon as possible. Donât take minutes to figure out an erudite answer. Access that unconscious part of your brain, get creative, say stupid shit. Obviously that is funny, but it also makes you listen better, relax and bond.
Letâs have a look.

Tuesday Dilemma
This is based on a website that poses âtuesday (dinsdag) dilemmasâ every week. These are interesting impossible to choose options to explore together. The best are where it is hardest to choose. And the most fun is, when someone takes an option â to say why they are wrong. Point is, you have fun arguing about impossible situations.
Example: âYou hear every conversation with a 10-second delayâ -OR- âants are always crawling over your bodyâ
I would argue that Iâd rather have ants on my body, because a 10-second delay would make any conversation impossible. But you might point out â that everyone will be disgusted because of all the ants all the time. Itâs fun to argue, a bit and move on to another dilemma.
Here are another 5 to get your conversations going:
âYou are always waiting in line to get anythingâ
-OR- âYou always have to walk backwardsâ
âIf you sneeze yogurt spurts outâ
-OR- âIn an elevator you always stand very close to other passengersâ
âYou have to redo elementary schoolâ
-OR- âYou can only talk to people like you talk to babiesâ
âYou have to post all your turds on Facebookâ
-OR- âYou donât dare to go to the bathroom aloneâ
âClub one baby sealâ
-OR- âTake care of 20 guinea pigs for the rest of your lifeâ

Two Truths and a Lie
In this game you have to tell two truths about yourself. Plus one lie! Let the others discuss what is the lie. You can make this as hard or easy if you want. Once youâve had a good laugh let the others take a turn.
Example: I love eating pineapple on my pizza. I pick my nose all the time. I smell my armpits a lot for the musky scent.
Which one is true? Which one is false? Iâm not going to tell, but you can always guess and send me your answer! Though admitting two of them are true, is going to be hard, haha.

Categories of non-existing things
A way of getting creative, you have to think of things that have never existed. The point is you have to think of something that fits the description, yet complete fantasy. So the further you go down a list of items the harder it gets. But since you have to answer quickly â you spew more funny non-sense.
Rules:
- You think of a category say; cars, foods or animals.
- The other has to imagine 7 items in the category that have never existed/are gone/are extinct/etc.
- The list has to be filled as soon as possible.
Example:
- âName 7 Animals that have gone âextinctââ:
- âThe Californian eggplant eater, the newt cuddler, diving stork, the spotted lion, the velvet frog, the kaviar beetle â and the heavy daisy crusher!â
I just improvised this list in 30 seconds for this example. And after 3 âanimalsâ it gets hard. But that is the fun, you have to dig in to a non-existing memory, so your mind just combines random words. Which is fun, and relaxing.

3 Line Charachters
Create a character by one-by-one yelling a few random words. Then come up with what this character would say. This can be anything, a person, an object, a landscape.
Example: Coming up with a character_: âUuuhm,âŠ.. anâ âEnviousâ âBeehiveâ âCleanerâ â So we get the Envious Beehive Cleaner together. What would he say?
âHmppff, my house is just as sugary and clean as this hive, queeny.â
âI know you cheat on me! Iâll release my most proper bees on you if I catch you!â
âWasps ainât got nothing on my shiny bees!â
You get the jest â try to come up with funny sentences for you character quickly. So you can laugh about the ridiculousness immediately.

Dad-Joke Competition
You make sport out of making the worst joke. Obviously, dad jokes are the best for this.
Since failing is the goal â it becomes more fun who can make the worst joke. People wonât be embarrassed to try to be funny. And if you happen to strike gold and have a funny joke â all the better!
Example: âMy wife is really mad at the fact that I have no sense of direction. So I packed up my stuff and right.â
Well this one is bad. But you might top it with: âHow do you make holy water? You boil the hell out of it.â
So cringy â so bad! And thatâs the goal!

Make it or break it
You have to describe the feature of your ultimate lover/friend/hero or any other positive character. The others can then add one negative trait at a time â you then explain whether it is still your ultimate love/friend/hero. Did the negative make or break it?
Example: My ultimate girlfriend would be: âbeautiful, smart and funny.â You might add as negative trait â âshe always farts during sexâ. Well honestly that would break it for me, hahaha.
Another example: My best friend would be âfaithful, a_lways make time for me and enjoys the same hobbies._â You add the negative trait of him being âarrogantâ. Nah, still works for me. You add â âbut he always ruins your jokesâ. Yup that did it â not my best friend anymore.
The game is a fun way to take impossible fantasies and fool around with them.

Finnish the sentence / last 5 words
In this game you have to listen well. One person starts with a story, using one sentence. Then the next person has to continue the story with one line. But start with the last 5 words of the previous sentence. Then the next person does the same. This will spiral into hilarity.
Example:
âThe baker went to the store to get some extra yeast.â
âTo get some extra yeast, he had to trade his cat with the red furâ
âHis cat with the red fur was his favorite friend at homeâ
âHis favorite friend at home did eat too much fishâ
âDid eat too much fish â so the bakerâs wife went brokeâ
âThe bakerâs wife went broke â so she had to sell her old dolls on the marketâ
Etc. etc.
As you see the story takes weird twists and turns already. And iâm playing on my own now. Go do this together!
Hope you have fun with these social games! It is a great way to shake things up. Get to know each other on a different level. And just have fun and be less serious about things. Let me know what happened when you tried! Love to hear how it works out for you!