If you could ask a time traveler one question about the future, what would it be?
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Time machines, impossible deals, one-day superpowers. Every card is a small what-if, and the answers say a lot more about people than they expect.
All 96 questions
The whole deck in order, from light to deep. Handy if you'd rather read from a list or print it.
Light
- If you could ask a time traveler one question about the future, what would it be?
- If you could witness any event in the universe, past or future, what would it be?
- If you could have any superpower, but it only worked for an hour a day, what would you choose?
- What's one superpower you would hate to have?
- If a zombie outbreak started today, where would you hole up?
- If you could add any wild room to your home, what would it be?
- What would you eat most often if every type of food were healthy?
- If you could switch lives with anyone for a day, who would it be?
- Imagine you never have to work again. How do you spend a Tuesday?
- If you were zapped into any novel, which one would you hope it was?
- If you didn't have to sleep, what would you do with the extra time?
- If you could live in any fictional universe, which would you choose?
- If you could change one thing about human biology, what would it be?
- If you could be invisible for a day, what's the first thing you'd do?
- Would you accept the ability to see ghosts if they could also see you?
- If you could make one book or movie a reality, which would you choose?
- If you lived 500 years ago, what do you think your job would have been?
- Would you give up your left middle finger to be immune to every disease?
- If you could have dinner with any fictional villain, who would you pick?
- If you could see any dead singer or broken-up band live, who would it be?
- If you could have any view from your window, what would you look at every day?
- If you had a door from your house to anywhere in the world, where would it open?
- A genie grants you the ability to have infinite amounts of one item. What is it?
- If you could make one food healthy without changing its taste, what would it be?
- If you could have a conversation with any animal, which species would you choose?
- Where would you be right now if you had zero obligations and money didn't matter?
- If society collapsed tomorrow, what skill you currently have would be most valuable?
- If you had to delete all but 3 apps from your smartphone, which ones would you keep?
- You get one superpower, but it only works when nobody is watching. What do you choose?
- If gravity turned off for 30 seconds every day at a random time, how would you prepare?
- A friendly ghost agrees to do one chore around your house forever. What do you ask for?
- If you could talk to one species of animal, which would you pick and what would you ask?
- You can pause time for everyone but yourself for ten minutes a day. How do you spend it?
- Would you take a pill that made you a super genius but removed all the hair from your body?
- You get complete say over only one room in a house you're building. Which room do you choose?
- If your days had 25 hours but everyone else's still had 24, what would you do with the extra hour?
- You find your dream home at a great price, but the listing says it's haunted. Do you still move in?
- If you could bring one piece of modern technology to medieval Europe, what would have the biggest impact?
- You can teleport anywhere, but you always arrive five minutes late and slightly damp. Do you still use it?
Closer
- If you could relive one day of your life, which would it be?
- If you could ask the universe one question and get a true answer, what would you ask?
- If you could be a fly on the wall for any conversation in history, which one would it be?
- If you could ask one person one question and they had to answer truthfully, who and what?
- You get one text, no more than 150 characters, sent to everyone's phone. What does it say?
- If everyone you've ever met was in one room at the same time, who would you look for first?
- If aliens landed and asked you to explain Earth using only three objects, what would you pick?
- Whatever you do next week will be erased from time and everyone's memory but yours. What do you do?
- If you had to prove you were human and not an AI in 5 minutes via a text conversation, how would you do it?
- If you could read minds, whose would you read first?
- If you could stay one age forever, which would you pick?
- If every job paid the same, what would you do for a living?
- Would you teleport if every trip cost you a year of your life?
- If the world ended tomorrow, what would you do on your last day?
- If you were the only human left on Earth, what would you do first?
- If you could go back to any age for 24 hours, which would you pick?
- If you could make one law everyone had to follow, what would it be?
- If you had to disappear, how would you do so and where would you go?
- You've been teleported to the Middle Ages. How do you make a living?
- Would you accept a job where you work 80-hour weeks but retire at 40?
- If you could teleport to safety just once, when would you save it for?
- If you got a one-way ticket to anywhere in the world, where would you go?
- A free round-trip shuttle to Mars costs one year of your life. Are you in?
- Would you take fluency in every language if it meant you could never read again?
- If you could learn the answer to one mystery of the universe, which would it be?
- You get to ask your future self, 50 years from now, one question. What do you ask?
- If you could stop time, just once in your life for an hour, when would you use it?
- If a documentary about our era were made in the year 2500, what would it focus on?
- If you could send a message to the entire world, what would you say in 30 seconds?
- If aliens landed and offered to take one human to their planet, would you volunteer?
- A storm will destroy your home. Which three things (not people or pets) do you save?
- If you could go back in time as an invisible observer, which moment would you watch?
- You're leading a group of 20 survivors after a global disaster. What's your first rule?
- If you could read everyone's thoughts but couldn't turn it off, would you want that ability?
- Would you take $10,000 a week to sit in a pitch-black room doing nothing for 12 hours a day?
- If you could have a therapy session with anyone, living, dead, or fictional, who would it be?
- If you could freeze one moment in time and stay in it for a year, which moment would you choose?
- A fortune-teller who's never wrong says something big is about to change your life. Do you want to know what?
- You win three free week-long trips: one with a partner, one with your best friend, one solo. Where do you go?
Deep
- If you could know the date of your death, would you want to?
- You find a book about your life and reach the page you're living now. Do you turn it?
- If you could start over at 18 knowing everything you know now, what would you do differently?
- If you were offered immortality, would you take it?
- If you could know how you'd die, would you want to?
- Would you sacrifice your free will for guaranteed contentment?
- Would a life of pure pleasure, with zero suffering, be worth living?
- Would you take 20 extra years of life if a stranger had to die for it?
- If you could travel to the future and attend your own funeral, would you go?
- Would it comfort you more to know we're alone in the universe, or that we're not?
- Would you accept immortality if it meant watching everyone you love eventually die?
- If a massive asteroid was going to hit Earth in 30 days, how would you spend that time?
- Would you travel the stars with aliens forever if you could never see family or friends again?
- Would you sacrifice your memory of someone you love if it meant they could live a better life?
- Would you trade all your possessions for one guaranteed answer about what happens after death?
- Would you accept $10 million if it meant a stranger somewhere in the world lost everything they owned?
- Would you trade 10 years of your life for the ability to perfectly understand every person's perspective?
- If you could permanently raise the average human IQ by 20 points but lose 20 points from your own, would you?