Most Likely To

Set up

Before the party, write twenty or so questions that start with “Who is most likely to”. Sit everyone in a circle or around the table where they can see each other. Pick one reader, or pass the list around so everyone reads one question.

How to play

1. The reader reads one question aloud, for example “Who is most likely to fall asleep before midnight?”
2. The reader counts to three.
3. On three, everyone points at the person they think fits best. You may not point at yourself.
4. The person with the most fingers pointing at them can explain, defend themselves or tell a story.
5. Pass the list to the next reader and go again.

Questions that work

Keep them about habits and harmless quirks, so being picked is a compliment or a joke everyone shares:

• Who is most likely to sing along to every song in the car?
• Who is most likely to arrive early to everything?
• Who is most likely to win a game show?
• Who is most likely to have a snack in their pocket right now?
• Who is most likely to adopt three more pets?
• Who is most likely to finish a puzzle alone at two in the morning?

At Christmas: most likely to wrap a gift on Christmas morning, to eat the last cookie, to put the tree up first.

On New Year’s Eve: most likely to keep their resolution, to fall asleep before midnight, to start a dance.

At the office: most likely to reply to an email in under a minute, to have the tidiest desk, to know everyone’s coffee order.

Ways to change it

• Write-in version: everyone writes a name on paper and the reader reads them out, so nobody sees who voted for whom.
• Two names: for bigger groups, the two people with the most votes each tell their side.

Who it suits, and who it doesn’t

Most Likely To suits groups of four to twenty who know each other at least a little: families, friends, a team at an office party. It needs a list of questions and nothing else. It does not suit a group of near-strangers, who have nothing to go on, or a group where someone is likely to feel singled out. Choose the questions with the quietest person in the room in mind.