226 Best What If Questions

What if questions are great conversation starters or questions for when the chat is starting to get a bit dull and needs livening up. These hypothetical questions can spark creativity and allow you to offer up a wide variety of answers to certain situations, choices, or scenarios.

These questions are usually asked for fun, but they can also challenge and make you think about subjects more deeply. You might find yourself asking what if we could live forever or what if we could time travel? Maybe you are curious to know what would happen if you could talk to animals. How about if you had the ability to swim underwater without having to worry about drowning? These questions might seem farfetched but they will get you thinking and provide plenty to chat about with your friends and family. 

Asking what if questions not only helps you think outside of the box but also encourages you to consider your beliefs and values. They can expand your thinking and help you find out more about who you really are. What if questions can cover everything from science and history to politics and literature and are a great way to fill an awkward silence. 

So if you are struggling for something to say or the conversation is getting stale, drop in one of these what if questions and see how everybody reacts.  

226 Best What If Questions

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1. What if computers took over the world?
2. What if you woke up and could not speak your native language, but only one that you could not understand?
3. What if you could live from the perspective of one other person for one year?
4. What if every time you tried to use your smartphone, it took an unflattering selfie and sent it to all your contacts?
5. What if money can’t buy happiness? Can one be happy with no money?
6. What if you were forced to get a giant tattoo? What would you want the image to be?
7. What if you woke up in the morning and you were 100 feet tall?
8. What if you could make one gross habit socially acceptable?
9. What if no one hears a sound? Does it still exist?
10. What if you could rename any city in the world? What city would you change the name to and why?
11. What if you could speak to one deceased loved one?
12. What if the sky was actually pink?
13. What if you woke up one morning with only the clothes you sleep in all alone in another country unable to speak the country’s language?
14. What if your nighttime dreams came to life? Would that be exciting or terrifying?
15. What if you could only communicate by breaking out into song?
16. What if food could talk? What do you think it would say?
17. What if you woke up as an 18-year-old with all the knowledge you currently have?
18. What if you could live anywhere in the world? Where would you live?
19. What if your pet could talk? What do you think it would say?
20. What if plastic was banned?
21. What if the law of attraction exists? 
22. What if you were the subject of a comedy roast and you could choose your roasters from anyone who has ever lived?
23. What if you could teleport, but you would arrive naked?
24. What if you found out your house was infested with snakes?
25. What if all the oceans dried up?
26. What if your partner wanted an open relationship? 
27. What if everything you touched turned to gold?
28. What if you could hire someone to help you with anything? Who would you hire and what would they do?
29. What if you could time travel to any time period? What year would you go to and why?
30. What if a book came to life? Which book would you want it to be?
31. What if you could build an amusement park from scratch? What would be in your park?
32. What if you could do one thing with a 0% chance of failure? What would it be?
33. What if there was no electricity for a year anywhere in the world?
34. What if you suddenly realized you were aging backward?
35. What if you could shape your own future just as you wanted it to be?
36. What if toys came to life? 
37. What if you were the PR person for a supervillain and had to rehabilitate their public image?
38. What if you could erase other people’s memories?
39. What if the South won the Civil War?
40. What if you could fly? 
41. What if you never had to go to the bathroom again?
42. What if LEGO wanted you to create a new LEGO set? What would you make?
43. What if you could be any character in your favorite TV show? Who would it be and why? 
44. What if you could uninvent something? What would it be?
45. What if a dramatic voice followed you around narrating your life?
46. What if you had a money tree? Would you share it?
47. What if you had the chance to write a best-selling novel? Would it be a romance, mystery, or factual historical account?
48. What if kids became adults for a day, and adults became kids?
49. What if you hit your head and could suddenly speak any language?
50. What if you could send one message to a loved one after you die? Who would it be? 
51. What if you were excellent at a sport? Which sport would you choose and why?
52. What if unicorns were real? 
53. What if the roles reversed and animals became humans and humans became animals?
54. What if you could do one thing so well that you could be famous? What would you do?
55. What if you could marry someone famous, either living or dead?
56. What if every time you burped, you fainted?
57. What if you owned your own spaceship?
58. What if you peed your pants every time someone made you laugh?
59. What if someone wrote a story about you? Would you be considered a hero or a villain in your story?
60. What if you had the power to temporarily mute people in real life?
61. What if you could ask anyone for one piece of advice?
62. What if you died and had to haunt something or someone? Who or what would you haunt?
63. What if the only job interview you could sit for was a retail job?
64. What if you could meet one famous person from history? Who would it be?
65. What if you knew something terrible was going to happen to someone you cared about and you could not do anything to change it?
66. What if you could only wear one color for the rest of your life? Which color would you choose and why?
67. What if dragons were real? Would you be happy or terrified?
68. What if you could have your dream job but never get paid more than the average wage? 
69. What if you were allowed to choose one thing to be reincarnated into?
70. What if the zombie apocalypse happened? How would you survive? 
71. What if you had to choose between Christmas and your birthday? What would you do?
72. What if you could travel back in time and give one warning to any individual?
73. What if a red button that read “Push me, I dare you” suddenly appeared in the middle of your living room?
74.  What if your favorite video game didn’t exist? What would you do instead?
75. What if there was an escaped rhino loose in the city?
76. What if you had to choose between saving one family member or ten strangers?
77. What if you could swap your body with the body of an animal? Which animal would you choose?
78.  What if a stranger asked you to open your front door?
79. What if you could breathe underwater? 
80. What if you got stranded on a deserted island for five years?
81. What if someone on the internet wanted to know where you live? Would you tell them?
82. What if you lost everything tomorrow? Who would you run to for comfort?
83. What if you never had to work again? What would you do? 
84. What if you could find a cure for a disease? Which one would you want to cure?
85. What if the Moon was really made of cheese? 
86. What if you could only answer a question with a grunt?
87. What if you could learn the secret of life? 
88. What if the United States won the Vietnam War?
89. What if you woke up one day and you were as tiny as a mouse?
90. What if you could get a glimpse of the afterlife? Would you want to know what happens when we die?
91. What if someone got hurt at home and no one else was home? What would you do?
92. What if you could know the worst thing that somebody ever did just by touching their hand?
93. What if you knew the world was ending in 24 hours? What would you do?
94. What if fast food was good for your health?
95. What if you could see 24 hours into the future? 
96. What if you treated Monday like it were Friday? How would it be different?
97. What if a roller coaster you were on stopped while you were upside down? 
98. What if real life is just a dream and we are really in the Matrix?
99. What if you had to wear a dinosaur costume to one major life event?
100. What if you had a magic watch that could pause time?
101. What if you knew tomorrow’s news before it happened?
102. What if religion is fake?
103. What if you could have a magic carpet or an invisible cloak? Which would you choose?
104. What if you could start your life all over? What would you do differently?
105. What if you had to dance in front of a stadium full of people? What kind of dancing would you do?
106. What if the president called you out of the blue?
107. What if you found a hidden compartment in your bedroom?
108. What if you knew the time and day you died? 
109. What if every time you coughed, you laid a golden egg?
110. What if you could relive any moment in your life whenever you wished to? Which moment would you choose and why?
111. What if you could create your own fashion trend? What would it be?
112. What if the ghosts of Christmas past visited you?
113. What if you found out your mom or dad was actually a spy?
114. What if you could upload information directly to your brain?
115. What if dinosaurs were alive today?
116. What if you woke up and realized you were the President of the United States?
117. What if you had to suddenly fake your death and enter witness protection?
118. What if English wasn’t the world’s most recognized language? 
119. What if you had to teach someone one thing? What would you teach?
120. What if you had to convince someone that you were actually your own identical twin?
121. What if Hitler had won World War II
122. What if you could only eat vegetables for the rest of your life?
123. What if you could only speak in questions?
124. What if New York was the capital of the United States? 
125. What if you could see through walls?
126. What if you had to choose between a wonderful romantic spouse to whom you would be married for only a few years or a boring, unromantic spouse for your entire life? Which would you choose and why?
127. What if people cared more about doing the right thing than doing things right?
128. What if you could play any instrument?
129. What if you could only eat cookies for a week? What type of cookies would you eat? 
130. What if you could remember everything that happened to you from the time you were born?
131. What if a celebrity started coming to you for advice?
132. What if the supernatural is real?
133. What if you could eliminate one word from the English language? What would it be? 
134. What if social media didn’t exist?
135. What if your personal information was leaked and everybody could discover your deepest and darkest secrets? 
136. What if you found out a family member had committed murder? 
137. What if you had to choose between being a kid forever and growing up right now? Which would you choose?
138. What if nobody lived past 50?
139. What if you could live forever and the earth remained just as it is now?
140. What if you had to choose between money or no love or love and no money? Which would you choose and why?
141. What if aliens are real? 
142. What if Harry Potter was a real person?
143. What if you could change one awful event in world history, but it might mean you would never have been born?
144. What if you could create a new law? What would it be?
145. What if science turned out to be wrong? 
146. What if you could ever have kids? 
147. What if you woke up in a different gender’s body?
148. What if superheroes were real?
149. What if you were invited to high tea with the Queen of England?
150. What if you never needed to sleep?
151. What if Kanye West was a good human being?
152. What if you possessed superhuman strength? 
153. What if you could travel into outer space?
154. What if flying cars were invented?
155. What if man never walked on the Moon?
156. What if you had to give up your sight or your hearing? Which would you choose and why?
157. What if you woke up and were the only person left on Earth? 
158. What if you met someone who said they time traveled? Would you believe them?
159. What if plastic didn’t exist?
160. What if every volcano on Earth erupted at the same time?
161. What if you could control the weather? 
162. What if the devil is real?
163. What if you could change the ending to one show or movie?
164. What if you could create your own country? What kind of government would it have?
165. What if you had six arms and six legs?
166. What if there is more to life than death and taxes?
167. What if you could shapeshift?
168. What if your most ridiculous childhood fear was suddenly a valid concern?
169. What if you could have any car you wanted?
170. What if history was all a lie?
171. What if you could change one thing about your life? What would you want it to be?
172. What if you could print money?
173. What if you could not make your own decisions, but you had to choose someone else to make them for you? Who would you choose and why?
174. What if Donald Trump gets elected again?
175. What if you could post something on the Internet to make you famous overnight?
176. What if you could make everyone in the world forget one thing? What would you want them to forget?
177. What if you had to pick one food to eat every day for the rest of your life?
178. What if COVID-19 was a government conspiracy? 
179. What if you could hear people’s thoughts?
180. What if every time you coughed, you also farted?
181. What if you could win a lifetime supply of one product? What would it be? 
182. What if you started a business today? What would it be? 
183. What if a stranger approached you and whispered, “You are the chosen one?”
184. What if you could host your own talk show?
185. What if you had a magic clock that could stop time?
186. What if you had to choose between great wealth or great wisdom?
187. What if armageddon actually happened? 
188. What if you received a message that read, “Come find me – you know who”?
189. What if you were given the opportunity to mold your spouse or partner the way you wanted?
190. What if everything tasted like candy?
191. What if you had three wishes? What would you wish for?
192. What if you found a suitcase full of $100 bills? What would you do?
193. What if you won the lottery? Would you tell anyone?
194. What if the world was taken over by aliens?
195. What if you had one body part that started growing and wouldn’t stop? What would you want it to be?
196. What if your nemesis was hired at the company?
197. What if you could never eat your favorite food again in your life?
198. What if you were interviewing a candidate and they refused to speak?
199. What if a family board game came to life? Which would you want it to be?
200. What if you become an Avenger? What character would you want to be?
201. What if you could work from anywhere in the world? Where would you live?
202. What if you had to lose a body part? Which would you choose to give up and why?
203. What if the company you work for lets you choose your own working hours?
204. What if you read a book a week for a year? What do you think would happen?
205. What if you woke up with a dead stranger next to you?
206. What if you could have lunch with anyone in the world? Who would you choose?
207. What if a client told you that they were thinking about switching to a competitor?
208. What if you never had to attend another Zoom call?
209. What if you found out your life was really a tv show for others to watch and you didn’t know it?
210. What if when you die, your loved ones would only remember one thing about you? What would you want it to be?
211. What if cats could swim underwater?
212. What if you were put in charge of designing a new company logo?
213. What if you had to work with a clone of yourself?
214. What if you lost all your memories except for one? Which would you keep?
215. What if humans learned to tap into the rest of their brains and we became twice as intelligent?
216. What if you could only eat pizza for the rest of your life?
217.  What if you found out you would live forever?
218. What if a ghost haunted your bedroom at night?
219. What if you found out you were actually dead? 
220. What if a co-worker got promoted to a role that you were hoping to get?
221. What if you had to choose between fame and fortune?
222. What if you suddenly inherited a million dollars from a relative you didn’t know about? What’s the first thing you’d do with the money?
223. What if you could only walk on your hands?
224. What if you could find out every person who has ever had a crush on you?
225. What if you lost your sight? What picture/image would you miss the most?
226. What if you could read minds?