Skip to content
🎮 Let’s playUGABUGAPLAY · PRINT · LEARN · CELEBRATE
עברית

What Will Everyone Say?

The host asks a simple question like "Name a fruit", but the goal is not to write your own answer. You write what you think most of the group will write. It is a great way to see how a group thinks, and it creates lots of "No way, you too?" moments.

🎂 Ages 8+👥 5-20 players⏱️ 10 minutes🧰 Paper and a pen for each player

🃏 Printable cards

What you need

Equipment: Paper and a pen for each player. Give each player paper and a pen. Prepare 12 to 15 short questions with a few obvious answers, such as "Name a scary animal" or "The best pizza topping".

How to play What Will Everyone Say?

  1. Explain the goal: do not write what you think, write what most people will write.
  2. The host reads a question out loud.
  3. Each player writes one answer quietly within 15 seconds, with no talking.
  4. When time is up, everyone holds up their paper at once.
  5. The host reads all the answers aloud and counts them.
  6. The most common answer is the group's answer.
  7. Everyone who wrote it scores.
  8. If two answers tie, both count.

Scoring and wrapping up

Scoring: You wrote the group's answer: 2 points. Your answer was the only one of its kind: 1 point for originality. Everyone wrote the same thing: 3 points for all.

To finish: After 12 questions, add up the scores and announce both the Group Mind Reader and the Most Original Thinker.

By age

  • Ages 8-10: use concrete categories like colors, animals and foods.
  • Ages 11+: try opinion questions, such as "The most annoying sound" or "The best day of the week".

Variations

  • Big group: play in teams of three, each team writing one agreed answer.
  • Buga twist: Buga's odd one out. For one question, you score only if your answer is different from everyone else's.
  • Family edition: ask questions about the family, such as "Who in our family sings most in the car?"

Tips for the adult in charge

  • Questions with many possible answers work best. If everyone will say the same thing, the round is dull.
  • Read the answers with drama. The reveal is where the laughs are.

🖨️ Printable 'What will everyone say' question cards

Read one card per round. Everyone writes the answer they think the group will give.

  • Name a fruit.
  • The tastiest pizza topping
  • Name a scary animal.
  • A good name for a dog
  • Name a sport.
  • Something you find in a fridge
  • The best ice cream flavor
  • Name a color of the rainbow.
  • Something you take to the beach
  • A famous superhero
  • The best day of the week
  • Something that is always cold
  • An animal that lives on a farm
  • A breakfast food
  • Something with wheels
  • The most annoying sound
  • Something you do before bed
  • A thing that can fly
  • A vegetable kids don't like
  • Something you wear in winter

More games like this

Frequently asked questions

Is this the same as the board game Herd Mentality?

It is based on the same idea: everyone tries to match the most common answer. This version needs only paper and pens.

What questions work for 'What will everyone say'?

Short category questions with several common answers: a fruit, a pet name, a sport, something in a fridge, a superhero.