96 questions in 8 groups
The newlywed game is simple. One partner answers questions about themselves, the other predicts what they said, and everyone finds out whether “I know you better than anyone” holds up under pressure.
Below are questions grouped by theme, from the classics to the wedding day itself, plus a clean set you can read out at a bridal shower with the whole family listening. Every question has one answer you can check, which is what makes it a game and not just a conversation.
Choose a group, then tap for a random question. Read it out, let your partner guess, then say your real answer.
What will your partner say is their worst habit?
Pick 15 to 20 questions from the lists below. Ask one partner to answer them about themselves and write the answers down. The other partner hasn't seen them. When it's time to play, the host reads each question to the guessing partner, they give their answer, and the host reveals what the first partner said.
Then swap. A second round where the other partner answers and the first one guesses is fair, and usually funnier, because by now both of them know how the game works and are trying much too hard.
The core of the game. Short, quick to answer, and most couples get about half of them right, which is exactly the point.
Questions about the early days. You were both there, so you'd think these would be easy. They are not.
The small, specific stuff you only learn by living with someone. These are the ones that get the biggest laughs when the answers don't match.
Food questions are the easiest to check and the hardest to bluff. Ask for the exact answer, not the category: 'pepperoni', not 'pizza'.
Answer each one with a name: yours or your partner's. These are the questions to use for the shoe game, and they work for a room full of guests because nobody needs any backstory.
Questions about running a home together. Keep the money ones light: 'who spends more at the grocery store' is a game question, 'how much debt do you have' is not.
For after the wedding: the reception, the first anniversary, or a dinner with friends who were there. Couples remember the same day very differently.
Safe to read out with grandma in the front row. Nothing about exes, the bedroom, or anything a guest would need to explain on the drive home.
No host, no index cards, no one reading answers off a phone. One of you answers the questions about yourself, sends a link, and the other guesses on their own phone. The site scores it and shows exactly which answers didn't match.
Copy a few from this page or write your own. Multiple choice works best: 'Which side of the bed do I sleep on?'.
Your answers become the answer key. Set how many your partner is allowed to miss and what they owe if they go over.
Your partner plays on their phone, no account needed. Works across the table or across the country.
Don't want to write your own? These are the most played quizzes on the site. Answer first, then send the link.
7 questions · 86 plays
7 questions · 84 plays
They won't, often. Most couples miss more than they expect, and the misses are the best part. Finding out your partner thinks you sleep on the other side of the bed, or that the cake was their idea, is funnier than getting every answer right.
If you want to keep going after the game, a how well do you know your partner quiz works the same way but each of you plays on your own time. For open-ended conversation instead of right answers, try these questions for couples, and for something faster, the this or that questions take about a second each.
Around 15 to 20. That takes 20 to 30 minutes with a room of guests and keeps the energy up. Mix easy questions with a few harder ones, and save one of the best for last as a bonus question.
One point for every answer that matches. If several couples are playing, ask everyone the same questions and the couple with the most points wins. You can make the last question worth two or three points as a tiebreaker. At a bridal shower, a popular twist is that the bride chews a piece of gum for every answer she gets wrong, and everyone counts the pieces at the end.
Before the shower, ask the groom 15 to 20 questions and write down his answers, or record him answering on video. At the shower, read each question to the bride, let her guess, then reveal what he said. Stick to clean questions, since the whole family is usually in the room.
Yes. On a video call, the host can ask the questions and read out the answers the absent partner gave earlier. Or make it a quiz on CouplesQuizzes: one partner answers the questions about themselves, sends a link, and the other guesses on their own phone. The site scores it and shows every wrong guess.
No. Engaged couples play it at bridal showers, married couples play it at anniversaries, and any couple can play it on a game night. Couples who have been together for decades are often the most confident and not always the most accurate.
A version of the newlywed game for weddings and showers. The couple sits back to back, each holding one of their own shoes and one of their partner's. The host asks 'who is more likely to' questions, and each person raises the shoe of whoever they think it is. When the shoes don't match, the room finds out.
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