Funny Icebreaker Questions

Icebreaker questions often intend to reduce tension and anxiety among the members of the group. These questions aim at inviting participation of each of the group members. They act like starters that stimulate the process of thinking and contributing ideas. The person who holds a meeting or a session puts out icebreaker questions to the attendees to motivate them to put forth their thoughts to all the participants. If these startup questions are furnished with a tint of fun, they help the participants of the meeting to relax and feel free to express themselves.

Some Funny Icebreaker Questions

• If you were an animal, what would you be and why?
• If you were a cartoon, which one would you prefer being?
• What is the weirdest thing you have ever eaten?
• What’s the worst thing you did as a kid?
• What do you do to have fun?
• Have you been told, you look like someone famous? (This question looks simple but funny answers can come up!)
• Asking each one in the group to tell a joke can be a very straightforward yet a funny starter!
• Ask each of the participants to make a funny face and teach the others how to make it. The efforts taken by every one in learning will itself create humor.
• Ask each of the group members to say "hello" to the others in some funny and different way.
• Ask each of the group members to state something that makes him/her different from the rest.

Funny Icebreakers
Hand each member of the group with five pieces of paper. Ask each one in the group to announce something funny that he/she has done and put out one piece of paper. Ask the others in the group who have also done the same funny thing to also put out a piece of paper. Continue till at least one in the group is left without papers. This will make the participants share some funny facts about their lives and bring in some laughter to the meeting.

‘Wink at the criminals’ is another interesting activity just needing chits of paper and a pen. Make chits of paper as many as the number of people. Write the word ‘cop’ on one of the chits and write ‘criminal’ on another. Keep the rest of the chits blank. Shuffle the chits and ask the participants to draw one chit each. The one with the chit labeled criminal has to wink at the others without letting the cop know about it. On seeing a wink, the person withdraws from the game. This continues either till the criminal has winked at all except the cop or till the cop has identified the criminal. This is really an exciting and funny icebreaker.

There could be many fun games to let people mix up with each other and chat. One game could be of having two volunteers to remove one of their shoes, wear hand gloves and try to wear multiple pairs of socks one over the other. This activity is sure to create outbursts of laughter. Another game could be to place a huge drawing on the floor and have each of the members of the group to drop a pair of buttons in place of the picture’s eyes.

Here’s one more icebreaker activity. Ask every participant to check out for the objects in their own wallets or purses and point out something that reminds him/her of something funny. The participants can share the funny incident they were reminded of.

‘Weave a funny story’ could be another funny icebreaker activity. Get the participants to sit in a circle. Make one person initiate a story. The person next to him/her makes a statement that connects to that made by the previous participant. You can keep this game going as long as the story finds an end. Make it a rule to build a humorous story!

Start with a game called ‘look up-look down’. Start announcing, "look up" or "look down" in random order. Participants are supposed to follow the order. The one following it wrongly is out of the game. This is indeed hilarious.

Funny icebreaker questions make all occasions of getting together interesting. Apart from getting the people to know each other, funny icebreakers give the people an opportunity to laugh together. Funny icebreakers are the best means to start off!