A season of questions
Every table gets one question a week to start. They begin easy and get a little more personal as the season goes, because that’s how strangers become friends.
Easy in
Weeks 1–2Questions anyone can answer in the first five minutes with strangers.
- What’s the best thing you ate this week?
- What did you do last weekend that you’d do again?
- What’s something you’re an amateur at and proud of?
- What’s a small thing that makes a day go well?
- Which place in your city would you show a visitor first?
- What’s a skill you’d learn if it took a week instead of years?
- What did you want to be when you were ten?
- What’s the last thing that made you laugh out loud?
Getting somewhere
Weeks 3–5Your table has formed. The questions ask for a story, not an opinion.
- What’s changed most about your life in the last two years?
- Who taught you something you still use every day?
- What’s a rule you follow that nobody taught you?
- When did you last change your mind about something big?
- What does a perfect ordinary Tuesday look like for you?
- What would you want a stranger to know about where you grew up?
- What are you looking forward to this month?
- What’s something you’ve been meaning to start?
The real stuff
Weeks 6–8By now you know these people. These are the questions friends ask each other.
- What’s harder about being an adult than you expected?
- Who do you call when something good happens?
- What’s a decision you’re glad you made even though it was hard?
- What do you wish people asked you about more?
- What has this table noticed about you that you didn’t expect?
- What would you do this year if you knew it would work out?
- What are you carrying right now that nobody knows about?
- What do you want to remember about this season?
You never have to answer more than you want to. Passing is always fine.
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