What are good Christmas most likely to questions?

Most likely to questions, Christmas edition, work best when they stick to small traditions. Try who is most likely to shake every present to guess what is inside, or who is most likely to untangle the lights without losing patience. Keep each one about a habit, not a person's looks or choices, so the laugh lands on something the person would happily admit.

How do you play most likely to with a big family?

Read a question, count to three and have everyone point at once, and whoever gets the most fingers reads the next one. The pointing version works for any group of three or more. If you use the Pass the Phone app, which takes 3 to 8 players, split a big family into circles of 3 to 8 with one phone each.

Can you play these questions in the Pass the Phone app?

No, because the app has no custom questions and no Thanksgiving or Christmas set. Its free Friends & Family mode plays its own prompts for 3 to 8 players. Each player picks someone in secret and passes the phone, and the reveal at the end shows who picked whom. Use this list for the pointing version.

Which Pass the Phone mode should you pick for a family gathering?

Pick Friends & Family, which is free. The app is rated 17+ on the App Store and also has a premium Adult (18+) mode and Mixed Up, and both sit at the top of the mode menu. The host should choose Friends & Family before passing the phone.

Most Likely To Questions for Thanksgiving and Christmas: 40 Family-Friendly Questions, Plus How to Play With One Phone

Q: What are good Thanksgiving most likely to questions?

Good ones tease a habit everyone already knows, never a person's looks or choices. Two that work well are who is most likely to sneak a taste of the stuffing before dinner is served, and who is most likely to plan next year's menu before the pie is cut. Food, football and the gratitude round give you plenty more.

The best Thanksgiving most likely to questions and Christmas most likely to questions are short, kind and about habits everyone at the table already knows. Who is most likely to sneak a taste of the stuffing before dinner is served? Who is most likely to shake every present to guess what is inside? Below are 40 family-friendly questions in three sets: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and any family gathering. You can play them two ways with one phone. Read them out and have everyone point on three, or open the Pass the Phone app, which plays its own Friends & Family prompts rather than this list, with secret picks and a reveal at the end.

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TL;DR: Pick 10 to 15 questions, skip any that would embarrass someone, and have everyone point at the same moment so nobody copies the first answer. For secret picks instead, the app's free Friends & Family mode plays its own prompts, not this list.

Prefer secret picks to pointing? Pass the Phone's free Friends & Family mode plays its own prompts and reveals every pick at the end.

Thanksgiving most likely to questions

According to Wikipedia's US Thanksgiving article, the day is "celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November." The article adds that "the centerpiece of most celebrations is a Thanksgiving dinner with family and friends." These 14 are for that table. In Canada, Thanksgiving falls on the second Monday in October, as Wikipedia's Canadian Thanksgiving page notes, and every question works there too.

Who is most likely to sneak a taste of the stuffing before dinner is served?
Who is most likely to bring the same side dish every single year?
Who is most likely to give advice while someone else carves the turkey?
Who is most likely to turn the gratitude round into a speech?
Who is most likely to eat dessert first if nobody is watching?
Who is most likely to rescue a cooking disaster without anyone noticing?
Who is most likely to know the score of every football game today?
Who is most likely to volunteer for the dishes and actually finish them?
Who is most likely to take the group photo and forget to be in it?
Who is most likely to ask for a recipe and never make it?
Who is most likely to be thankful for something nobody expected?
Who is most likely to plan next year's menu before the pie is cut?
Who is most likely to watch the parade from start to finish?
Who is most likely to hide the last slice of pumpkin pie for later?

Christmas most likely to questions

The Christmas table often spans generations. YouGov's Big Survey on Christmas shows the British picture. "Six in ten Britons (60%) will spend Christmas Day with their partner, while 42% of people will be with at least one of their children and 41% with at least one of their parents on the big day." These 14 work by a fire in Britain or Ireland, or at a summer lunch outside in Australia or New Zealand.

Who is most likely to put their tree up before December?
Who is most likely to wrap every present at midnight on Christmas Eve?
Who is most likely to shake every present to guess what is inside?
Who is most likely to know every word of every carol?
Who is most likely to cry at a Christmas movie they have seen ten times?
Who is most likely to wake the whole house early on Christmas morning?
Who is most likely to wear the paper crown from a Christmas cracker all day?
Who is most likely to wear matching family pajamas without complaining?
Who is most likely to untangle the lights without losing patience?
Who is most likely to play Christmas music in November?
Who is most likely to assemble a new present without reading the instructions?
Who is most likely to buy their last gift the day before Christmas?
Who is most likely to suggest a long walk after the Christmas meal?
Who is most likely to win every game played on Christmas afternoon?

Most likely to questions for any family gathering

These 12 are the most likely to questions for family that work all year, at Friendsgiving, Christmas Eve, a birthday visit or any long lunch. None of them mention the season, so they travel. They also make a good warm-up before the seasonal sets.

Who is most likely to tell the same family story every year?
Who is most likely to remember everyone's birthday without a reminder?
Who is most likely to be the last one to leave?
Who is most likely to say they are five minutes away while still at home?
Who is most likely to explain the rules of a board game for twenty minutes?
Who is most likely to send everyone the photos before they get home?
Who is most likely to fix the Wi-Fi and the TV in one visit?
Who is most likely to make friends with a stranger at the checkout?
Who is most likely to forget the dish they promised to bring?
Who is most likely to thank the cook first?
Who is most likely to have a nickname nobody remembers the origin of?
Who is most likely to cry happy tears at a family gathering?

The classic way to play, everyone points on three

This is the version the 40 questions are written for, and it needs nothing but this page open on one phone. One person reads a question aloud, counts to three, and everyone points at once. Whoever gets the most fingers takes the phone and reads the next question, so the reader role and the phone move around the table together. Ties are quick: both people defend themselves in one sentence, and the reader decides.

Pointing at the same moment is the whole trick. Life Note's guide to most likely to questions puts it plainly: "everyone points at the same time, on three. If people point one at a time, the first answer anchors everyone else and the vote stops being honest." If your table likes keeping score, give one point per question and no prize; if not, skip it.

Our post on Thanksgiving games you can play on one phone runs this same format as Most Likely To, Family Edition. This page gives that Thanksgiving most likely to game a fresh set of questions, plus a Christmas set and a set for any time of year.

How to play with one phone in the Pass the Phone app

Pass the Phone is our app, and it plays a secret version. The host adds 3 to 8 names and picks a round of 10, 20 or 30 prompts. The app picks who starts and shows "Pass the phone to" with that name. That player taps "I'm" plus their name, reads a prompt only they see, and answers "Who do you pick?" by tapping someone else. The phone goes to that person, who reads the next prompt, so one person decides each prompt and nobody counts fingers. The prompts stay secret until "Game Reveal" shows who picked whom for each one, then titles such as Phone Magnet and Under the Radar. According to Wikipedia's account of the Asch conformity experiments, people in Solomon Asch's 1950s studies "conformed to the majority group" in about a third of the rounds where everyone else gave the same wrong answer. Yet "Conformity significantly decreased when shifting from public to written responses." Private answers are less swayed by the room, which is why the prompts stay hidden until the reveal.

To be plain, the app plays its own Friends & Family prompts, not the 40 questions above. It has no custom questions and no Thanksgiving or Christmas set. "Pass it to the friend you've been most thankful for this year" and "Give it to whoever would invent a holiday everyone secretly loves" are two real prompts from it. See more sample Friends & Family prompts.

Friends & Family is the mode to pick: it is free, works offline once installed, and needs no account to start a round. The app is rated 17+ on the App Store and has a premium Adult (18+) mode. That mode and Mixed Up, which draws random prompts from every mode, sit at the top of the menu, so choose Friends & Family before you hand the phone over.

Want the secret-pick version at your table? Open Pass the Phone, choose Friends & Family and pass the phone to whoever the app names first.

Big tables, every generation and people who wander off

Thanksgiving tables run big. Butterball's 2025 Thanksgiving report was a US online survey of 1,678 adults, run by Circana in July 2025. It found that "89% of consumers plan to celebrate Thanksgiving this year with an anticipated celebration size of nine people." Nine is one more than the app's limit of 8 players. So a big table can split into two circles of 3 to 8, each with its own phone, or play the pointing version. The same Life Note guide says that game "works well up to a large group" and puts the practical minimum at three.

A few habits keep a long table playing. Rotate the reader so the host plays too. Ten to 15 questions make a good round. Anyone who leaves to check the oven rejoins at the next question, because nobody is ever out. Mixed ages are easier than they look. Reading aloud means nobody has to squint at small text, and the questions are about habits, not pop culture, so every generation starts level.

Questions to skip, and how to write your own

The same guide gives a rule worth keeping at any family table: "skip any question where the honest answer would embarrass someone in front of the group." In practice, steer clear of money, looks or weight, love lives, jobs and grades, health, and anything that already causes tension at your table.

Writing your own takes one test. Start with "Who is most likely to" and add a harmless habit the person would happily tell you about themselves. If you think they would laugh first, keep it. If the same person gets picked three times in a row, switch sets so the spotlight moves. That is how good who's most likely to questions for family stay kind all evening.

When the questions run out, our guide to Christmas party games you can play on one phone has full games for the same room.

Hosting Thanksgiving or Christmas? Read this list aloud for the pointing version, or open Pass the Phone, choose Friends & Family and let the reveal close the night.