Say you and your friend are both movie buffs. You might ask questions like, “What is the skyscraper’s name in Die Hard?” or “How many suns does Luke’s home planet Tatooine have in Star Wars?”

For example, if you’re thinking of your favorite dessert (chocolate cake), then you might answer “No” to questions like, “Is it alive?” and “yes” to questions like, “Can you eat it?” When you’re asking the questions, start by trying to narrow down the category. For example, you might ask questions like “Is it an animal?” or “Is it a famous person?”

You might ask questions like, “What color are my eyes?” “What’s my favorite movie?” and “How many siblings do I have?” If you ask 5 questions and get 4 right, they’d have 4 points. If you answered all 5 of their questions correctly, that means you’d win with 5 points. To add excitement to the game, try timing one another’s answers.

If you picked Yoda from Star Wars, you might start texting the way he speaks and say things like, “Try to guess who I am, you must!” You could impersonate Regina George from Mean Girls and text her iconic quote, “Get in, loser, we’re going shopping!”

You: “I spy something clear. ” Them: “Is it a glass?” You: “No!”

Draw from shows and movies you both like. For example, you might text a Lord of the Rings fan, “Kiss, Marry, Kill: Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli. ” Suggest some silly options, too! For instance, Fred, Shaggy, and Velma (Scooby Doo), or SpongeBob, Squidward, and Mr. Crabs (SpongeBob SquarePants).

What month of the year has 28 days? (Answer: All of them) What is a question you can never answer yes to? (Answer: Are you asleep?) What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to? (Answer: An echo) Try increasing the difficulty of the riddles as you progress to give your friend a challenge.

For example, you could send a funny combination like “💁‍♀️✋” (Talk to the hand) or “🗿😬🗿” (Between a rock and a hard place). You might invite your crush over by sending “🍿📺❄️,” (Netflix and chill) or text them, “🔥🌶🔥” (You’re hot!)

Create a first sentence that sets the scene. For example, “Once there was a princess who lived in a tower…” or “One day, a budgie decided to move away from home to the big city!” Build the story piece by piece with every sentence you add. “One day, the princess got bored and decided to escape the tower to go skiing!” It’s up to you and your friend whether you want to keep the story realistic or throw away all the rules and get ridiculous.

Good “truth” questions include: “What is your biggest fear?” “What’s something nobody knows about you?” or “Who are you crushing on?” Fun dares that work over text include: “Take a goofy selfie!” or “Make up a poem about your crush. ” Be sure to set some ground rules beforehand, so neither of you asks a question or makes a dare that makes the other uncomfortable. Nobody should do something they don’t want to do!

“Would you rather live in a treehouse or a cave?” “Would you rather detect every lie you hear or get away with every lie you tell? “Would you rather sell all of your possessions or sell one of your organs?”

“Never have I ever stolen anything!” “Never have I ever gone skinny dipping. ” “Never have I ever eaten an entire pizza by myself. ” When playing Never Have I Ever in person, the punishment is usually taking a sip of your drink. However, you could use a different punishment—like deducting a point or sending an embarrassing selfie.

“Who is most likely to spend all their money on something stupid?” “Who is most likely to poison someone with their awful cooking accidentally?” “Who is most likely to get lost in their own hometown?” You could also ask the “most likely” questions about celebrities or characters. For example, “Who is most likely to get thrown out of a club: Garfield or Donald Duck?”

“Making my way downtown, walking fast, faces pass and I’m homebound. ” (A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton) “You are my fire, the one desire…” (I Want It That Way by the Backstreet Boys) “I walk a lonely road, the only one that I have ever known. ” (Boulevard Of Broken Dreams by Green Day)

For example, you might send a GIF of Homer Simpson yelling, “D’oh!” To win, the other person would have to send a voice message of themselves yelling “D’oh!” as well.

For example, if your category is “dog breeds,” then you could list things like “Golden retriever, pug, pitbull, beagle, rottweiler…”

For example, the initial text could be, “I use ____ and ____ to pump myself up in the morning!” You could answer the text with something realistic like, “I use a triple-shot latte and my Spotify playlist to pump myself up…” or something funny, like, “I rely on screamo music and pure spite to pump myself up in the morning!”

A good scenario might be, “Okay: there’s a zombie apocalypse, and you get 5 people on your survival team. Who do you pick?” The sky’s the limit when you answer! You could say, “Superman, Captain Marvel, Daryl Dixon, Lara Croft…and Shrek. I feel like he’s just really tough, you know?”