Spin the wheel Thanksgiving questions
Talking points, not a quiz
Nobody at the table has to know when the Mayflower landed. Every question on this wheel is about the person answering: their food opinions, a memory, someone they owe a thank you. That keeps grandparents, teenagers and the new partner on equal footing, and nobody gets a question wrong.
The 40 questions are a mix. Quick ones, such as pumpkin or pecan pie and dark or white meat, keep a round moving while plates go around. Longer ones, like the funniest kitchen disaster or the best advice someone ever got, tend to start the stories people retell the next year. Politics and religion are left out on purpose.
Teachers spin it in the week before the break for a morning circle, and office teams use it to open the last meeting before the long weekend. At home it works between the main course and dessert, or on the drive to the relatives.
What's on this wheel
- What are you thankful for?
- Best side dish on the table?
- Pumpkin pie or pecan pie?
- Your earliest Thanksgiving memory?
- Who taught you to cook?
- Best leftover sandwich idea?
- A small thing that made you smile?
- Stuffing or mashed potatoes?
- Funniest kitchen disaster?
- Who would you invite next year?
- A skill you learned this year?
- Favorite fall smell?
- Best advice you ever got?
- Football, parade or nap?
- A person you want to thank?
- Family recipe worth keeping?
- Favorite autumn activity?
- What is your perfect pie?
- A trip you remember well?
- What makes a good host?
- Cranberry: sauce or jelly?
- Something new you tried?
- Your favorite family tradition?
- Best thing about this year?
- Who makes the best gravy?
- Dark meat or white meat?
- A friend who helped you out?
- What will you cook next year?
- Biggest laugh this year?
- Favorite song to cook to?
- Which dish would you skip?
- A habit you are proud of?
- Best place you lived?
- Black Friday: shop or stay in?
- A book or show you loved?
- Advice for your younger self?
- Favorite thing about fall?
- A goal for next November?
- Kindest thing a stranger did?
- One word for this year?
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Playing at the Thanksgiving table
- Pass a phone around the table, or cast the wheel to the TV with Present so the whole room can follow the spin.
- Whoever carved the turkey spins first and answers. Then the phone goes to the person on their right.
- Turn on Remove each winner from the wheel right away in Settings so no question comes up twice in one evening.
- Type questions only your family would get under Entries: the year the oven broke, the cousin who brought three pies.
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About these Thanksgiving questions
Will kids be able to answer?
Yes. All of them are family friendly. Children six and up can answer most of them, and a grown-up can read the question out for younger ones. A few, like the best advice you ever got, are better with teens and adults.
Does it work for an office potluck?
Yes. It makes a light start to a team call or a potluck lunch before the holiday. Anyone can skip a question, and you can delete the ones about family if your group prefers to keep it about work and food.
Why are there no trivia questions?
Trivia splits the table into people who know the answer and people who don't. Questions about yourself work for every age. If you want a quiz, replace the entries with your own and keep the answers on a card.
How many questions should we play?
One round, where each guest answers once, takes ten to fifteen minutes at a table of eight. With 40 questions and remove-after-spin on, you can play three or four rounds before any repeat.
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