Team Building Icebreakers
What follows is a list of icebreakers that Snack uses for 1:1s.
We are constantly revising the icebreakers based on user engagement metrics and feedback that we get. If you would like to suggest a new icebreaker question, contact us.
Snack Pro users can customize icebreakers.
- IcebreakerWho is your craziest/most interesting relative?
- IcebreakerWhat’s a weird fact you happen to know?
- IcebreakerWhat’s your strangest talent?
- IcebreakerEveryone has those recurring bad dreams … what is your nightmare?
- IcebreakerWhat is your favorite smell and why?
- IcebreakerWhat completely safe animal are you inexplicably afraid of?
- IcebreakerWhat do you pretend to hate but actually love?
- IcebreakerIf you had a boat, what would you name it?
- IcebreakerWhat was your first job?
- IcebreakerHave you ever met anyone famous?
- IcebreakerBeen pleasantly surprised by anything lately?
- IcebreakerWho had the most influence on you growing up?
- IcebreakerWhat was the first thing you bought with your own money?
- IcebreakerWhat’s something you want to do in the next year that you’ve never done before?
- IcebreakerDo you think there is a link between insanity and creativity?
- IcebreakerWhat is a time when something went wrong and what did you learn from it?
- IcebreakerIf this was your last conversation, what would you say?
- IcebreakerWhat are your irrational fears?
- IcebreakerWould you rather have ability to talk with your pet for an hour or a departed loved one?
- IcebreakerWhat's the funniest place you've ever fallen asleep?
- IcebreakerWhen was the last time you climbed a tree?
- IcebreakerWho taught you to cook? And what was the first meal you prepared?
- IcebreakerWhat food could you not live without?
- IcebreakerWhat’s the craziest thing on your bucket list?
- IcebreakerBeen anywhere recently for the first time?
- IcebreakerWhat’s your favorite place you’ve ever visited?
- IcebreakerWhat would you say to your 21 year old self?
- IcebreakerWhat advice from a close family member has stuck with you the most?
- IcebreakerWhat are you reading right now?
- IcebreakerWhat invention do you think will be popular in 20 years?
- IcebreakerIf you could pick up a new skill in an instant what would it be?
- IcebreakerWhat interesting skill do you want to learn?
- IcebreakerDoes anxiety get to you a lot? What do you do when it does?
- IcebreakerWhat one question would you ask the President?
- IcebreakerWhat are your parent's best qualities?
- IcebreakerWhat is your favorite movie adaptation of a book?
- IcebreakerWho is the best living musician?
- IcebreakerWhat is your go-to Halloween costume?
- IcebreakerWhat is a dream you have that you’ve yet to achieve?
- IcebreakerIf you were to teach a class, workshop, or training on any topic, what topic would you choose?
- IcebreakerWhat is something you can do very quickly?
- IcebreakerIf you could create a robot to help you with one chore, what would your robot do?
- IcebreakerWhat do you miss about the world you grew up in?
- IcebreakerWhat was one of your family’s rules that made no sense to you?
- IcebreakerWhat is your survival skill?
- IcebreakerWhat is the best food you can cook without looking at a recipe?
- IcebreakerWhat family tradition do you hope will continue?
- IcebreakerIf you pack snacks for a road trip, what do you pack?
- IcebreakerHow is your life better than you thought it would be when you were young?
- IcebreakerWhat is one of the earliest news stories you remember hearing about as a child?
- IcebreakerWhere would you want to live if you were choosing a place based only on the food?
- IcebreakerWhat was the spiciest food you ever ate?
- IcebreakerIf you could open up a shop or start a business, what would it be?
- IcebreakerWhat's been on your mind lately?
- IcebreakerIf you won the lottery, what’s one charitable cause you would fix/donate a ton of money to?
- IcebreakerIn your dream house, what is one weird room/feature you would include?
- IcebreakerKids today will never understand the struggle of what?
- IcebreakerWhat is the furthest away from home you’ve ever been?
- IcebreakerWhen looking back at your youth, what was your silliest fear?
- IcebreakerHow do you recognize when you're stressed?
- IcebreakerLooking back, what do you admire most about your childhood self?
- IcebreakerWhat do you need right now?
- IcebreakerWhat experience have you had where everything changed in the blink of an eye?
- IcebreakerWhat is the biggest trigger for stress in your life?
- IcebreakerWhat have you accomplished in the last year that you are proud of?
- IcebreakerWhy do you think some people are successful in life and others are not?
- IcebreakerWhat item do you own that is not worth much money but has great value for you?
- IcebreakerHow do you strive to be similar to, or different from, you parents?
- IcebreakerWhat did you get in trouble for a kid and how has that experience impacted you to this day?
- IcebreakerWhat are you looking forward to this week?
- IcebreakerIf you had been able to choose, would you rather have been an only child or part of a very large family?
- IcebreakerWhich section in the bookstore are you most drawn to?
- IcebreakerWhat projects are you working on?
- IcebreakerAre you reading anything right now?
- IcebreakerWhat is the biggest thing holding mankind back right now?