Icebreaker

Clean dares that need no equipment

Doable sitting on a sofa. Accents, impressions, thirty-second speeches, no props.

  1. Play a 15-second air guitar solo, and make the face that goes with it.
  2. Have a 20-second conversation with the person on your right using only animal noises.
  3. Sing the chorus of an anime opening you still know by heart.
  4. Name everyone here in the order they showed up today.
  5. You can't say yes or no until your next turn. Everyone else will try to trap you.
  6. Say your phone's battery percentage out loud, then explain it as your life status.
  7. Pick a word you say a lot and replace it with "beep" until your next turn.
  8. Change how you're sitting right now and keep the new position until your next turn.
  9. Act out a movie title with zero words and let the group guess it.
  10. Sing a jingle from any TV advert that's been stuck in your head.
  11. Sell the drink in front of you like you're in a 15-second TV commercial.
  12. Copy the exact posture of the person across from you and hold it until your next turn.
  13. Count out loud from 30 down to 1, skipping every number that contains a 3.
  14. Count from one to ten out loud, getting noticeably angrier with every number.
  15. Dance for ten seconds to a song only you can hear.
  16. Describe your day as a cooking recipe, with ingredients and steps.
  17. Close your eyes and describe this room's ceiling in as much detail as you can.
  18. Without looking down, describe your own shoes in as much detail as possible.
  19. Explain how to get to the nearest station, but in a dialect you don't actually speak.
  20. Give tomorrow's weather forecast entirely in a dialect you don't normally speak.
  21. Draw the person across from you without ever looking at your paper, then show them.
  22. Whatever the person on your left says next, repeat it back in a different accent.
  23. Elbow-bump every person here while saying their name out loud.
  24. Explain what you do all day as if you're talking to a five-year-old.
  25. Hold eye contact with the person on your right for 15 seconds without speaking.
  26. Do the most convincing fake yawn you can and see how many people catch it.
  27. Say your favourite word three times, each time with a completely different feeling.
  28. Repeat, word for word, the first thing you said after you sat down here.
  29. Fist-bump the person across from you in extreme slow motion, explosion included.
  30. Name a food starting with each of the first five letters of the alphabet, no pauses.