Funny Questions to Ask on Snapchat
Twenty short questions to send as a snap or add to your story, each answerable with one photo or a few words: which emoji they would be, the last random thing they searched, the food they would rename themselves after, and the strangest thing within arm's reach.
The questions
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Which emoji would you be, and you can't pick the one you already overuse?
Why ask it
The second clause is what saves this from being a dead question. Without it everybody sends the skull or the crying face and the chat stops. With it they have to think for a second, and second choices are funnier than first ones.
What's the last photo in your camera roll? Send it.
Why ask it
Almost nobody's last photo is interesting, which is exactly why this works: a receipt, a parking spot, a screenshot of an address. If they scroll back to find something better, the delay tells you they are curating, and you can call it.
What's the weirdest thing within arm's reach right now?
Why ask it
Built for a platform where a photo is faster than typing. It also grounds the conversation in where they actually are, which is the whole point of a snap rather than a text.
What's the most random thing you've searched this week?
Why ask it
Limiting it to this week is what makes it answerable. Asked without a time limit, people default to a story they have told before. Asked about the last few days, you get the genuinely strange thing they looked up at midnight.
If your name had to be a food, what would it be?
Why ask it
A one-word answer, which is right for a story reply where nobody types more than four words. The good ones come from the sound of their name rather than the taste, and the reply chain usually renames everyone in the group.
What's in your fridge right now that shouldn't be?
Why ask it
One photo, no typing, and everybody has something. Expect an unlabeled container, something long expired, or an object with no business being refrigerated. It plays better one to one than on a public story.
What sound effect should play every time you walk into a room?
Why ask it
This gets a voice note rather than a text, which is the best possible outcome on Snapchat. Whoever performs it instead of describing it wins, and it is worth saying that out loud when you ask.
What's the weirdest thing you've done to avoid talking to someone?
Why ask it
Universally relatable and reliably specific: a different aisle, a fake phone call, a full change of route. Answers are usually about avoiding a neighbor or a coworker, not an enemy, which is what makes them funny.
What's the last thing you bought online that you regret?
Why ask it
The object is usually still in the room, so you can ask for a photo of it. If they claim no regrets, ask what has not been taken out of the box yet, which finds the same answer by a side door.
If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Why ask it
An old question that survives because it is instantly answerable and everyone disagrees. Push for the specific version, not the category. Pizza is a non-answer, a particular pizza from a particular place is a real one.
What's the strangest dream you've had this month?
Why ask it
The month limit stops the generic answers. Dreams also work here because they are impossible to summarize well, so the reply is usually a rambling voice note, which is more entertaining than a tidy sentence.
What's the dumbest reason you've ever been late to something?
Why ask it
People will admit to this because everybody is late sometimes, and the reason is usually more embarrassing than the lateness. Watch for whoever names the reason they gave versus the real one.
What's the most embarrassing thing you've done to look cool?
Why ask it
Best sent one to one rather than to a story, because it needs a bit of trust. Most answers date from age fifteen. If they send back something from last week, that is the better story and worth following up on.
If your pet could send one snap, what would be in it?
Why ask it
Guarantees a photo, and pet owners will overdeliver on this one. Ask for the caption in the pet's voice as well, since the caption is where the personality shows up and the photo is only the setup.
What's the most ridiculous thing you've talked someone into doing?
Why ask it
This asks them to admit to being the instigator rather than the victim, which is a different kind of confession. Whoever answers with something from a group trip is telling you they are the one who plans things.
If we swapped lives for a day, what's the first thing you'd do with mine?
Why ask it
The only question here that is really about you, and the answer tells you how they see your life from outside. Expect either something they envy or something they find ridiculous, and both are useful to hear.
What's a hill you'll die on that nobody agrees with you about?
Why ask it
This is the one that turns a story into a fifty-reply argument, so send it when you want traffic rather than a chat. The best answers are trivial: pineapple, socks, how to load a dishwasher, whether cereal is soup.
What's a lie you tell yourself every single night?
Why ask it
Funnier than it sounds, because almost everyone says the same thing about going to sleep early or getting up to work out. If someone answers seriously, drop the bit and reply properly rather than sending the next question.
What would the title of your autobiography be, one line only?
Why ask it
The one-line limit does the work. Given room, people write a paragraph and nothing lands. Given a line, they produce something quotable, and the good ones get screenshotted and passed around, which is the point.
What's the one photo on your phone you'd never let anyone see? Describe it without showing it.
Why ask it
A closer that gets a real answer while explicitly not asking for the image. Keep the second half of the question in when you send it, and never follow up asking to see it. That is the whole reason it is safe to ask.
How to use these on Snapchat
Practical guidance for the conversation itself
Making them work as snaps
- Put the question on the photo, not in a separate text. A question sent as plain text reads like homework and gets answered hours later or not at all.
- Pick questions that can be answered with a photo of something already in the room. Anything requiring typing more than a sentence will be left on opened.
- Answer your own question in the same snap you send. It sets the effort level and makes it a game rather than an interrogation.
- One question at a time. A list of five gets one lazy reply to the easiest one.
Story questions versus one to one
- Stories reward questions that produce arguments: the hill you will die on, the food name, the one food forever. Everyone can reply in three words.
- Direct messages are the place for anything that involves an admission. The same question that gets fifty replies on a story gets silence when it needs honesty in public.
- If you are asking someone you barely know, stay on the object and camera roll questions. Nothing confessional until you have actually had a conversation.
- Group chats turn every question into a competition. That is fine for the silly ones and bad for the rest.
What to avoid
- Assume anything can be screenshotted. Disappearing is a setting, not a guarantee, and people have been burned by treating it as one.
- Never ask for a photo of a person rather than a thing, and never follow up asking to see something they said they would not show.
- Do not send confessional questions to a name from quick add. Strangers on the app are not owed anything and you do not know who is on the other end.
- If someone answers a joke question seriously, stop the game and reply like a person. Sending the next question is the wrong move.
Keeping the conversation alive
- Reply to the answer before you send the next question. Most of these die because the sender treats it like a quiz rather than a conversation.
- Ask for the photo version of whatever they typed. Send a picture of it is the single most effective follow-up on this platform.
- Voice notes beat text for anything involving a story. Say send it as audio, I want to hear it, and people usually will.
- Save the questions that got the best replies. A question that worked once will work again with somebody else, and most of these are worth reusing.