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Who are you with? Choose, then set a pace.
Strangers, warming up
Questions for a room of strangers who have to become a group by lunchtime.
A dinner party
Questions for a table where half the room is new to the other half.
Neighbours
Questions for the people who live nearest to you and know you least.
A book club or hobby group
Questions for a group that shares an interest but not a history.
A classroom
Questions for the first week, when nobody has decided who they are yet.
A team offsite
Questions for people who work together daily and have to keep working together after.
Someone's first week
Questions for the week someone is still an outsider on the inside.
A video call
Questions that survive a grid of faces and a two-second lag.
A mentor and a mentee
Questions for the pair where one is meant to be teaching the other.
A farewell
Questions for the last night, when the thing is already over.
A first date
Questions for the forty minutes that decide whether there is a second drink.
A new couple
Questions for the months where it is becoming real and nobody has said it.
A couple, years in
Questions for two people who think they have run out of things to ask.
Date night
Questions for two hours that are not about logistics.
A wedding table
Questions for the table where two families meet for the first time.
Old friends
Questions for people who have already heard all your stories.
New friends
Questions for the stage where you like each other and are not sure how much to say.
A reunion
Questions for the people who knew you before you were finished.
A long drive
Questions for the hours when nobody can leave and nobody has to look at anyone.
A campfire
Questions for the hour when the fire is doing most of the talking.
A family dinner
Questions for the table where three generations have to find something to say.
Adult siblings
Questions for the people who were there, and remember it differently.
Asking your parents
Questions for finding out who your parents were before you existed.
A grandparent
Questions across sixty years and not much shared vocabulary.
With children
Questions a nine-year-old will actually answer, and adults will actually enjoy hearing.
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