Rabbit-hole starters
Each one can eat an entire afternoon.
- If you had to open a restaurant with only the food in your kitchen right now, what is on the menu?
- What is a skill you could learn in the next hour if you started now?
- If you could design a new holiday, what would people do on it?
- What would you put in a time capsule to open in 2050?
- What is the most complicated thing you understand completely?
- If you planned the perfect road trip with no budget, what is the route?
- What would your ideal house have that no normal house does?
- What would you teach a class on if you had to fill a full semester?
Shower thoughts
- Do you think fish know they are wet?
- If you remove all the empty space from humans, how small would we all be together?
- Is a hole something, or is it nothing?
- When you look in a mirror, who are you actually seeing?
- Why do we park on driveways and drive on parkways?
- If two mind readers read each other's minds, whose mind are they reading?
- Which came first, the word for fear or the feeling?
Make it a ranking
- Rank the days of the week from best to worst and defend the middle ones.
- What are the top three snacks of all time, final answer?
- Rank your senses by which you would give up first.
- What is the best movie sequel ever made?
- Rank the fast food chains near you, no ties allowed.
- What is the best decade to have been a teenager?
- Rank the rooms in your home by how much you like being in them.
- What are the three best smells in the world?
Ask yourself
- What is something I have been meaning to do that would take less than ten minutes?
- Who have I not talked to in a while that I miss?
- What is the most interesting thing I learned this month?
- What would I do right now if I were not bored but excited?
- What is one thing I could make with what is around me?
- What is a question I have never googled but always wondered about?
- What would make today memorable, even a little?
How to use them
Boredom is an opening, not a problem. The rabbit-hole questions work best when there is no clock, like a long drive or a slow Sunday. Let one question run as long as it wants.
Rankings are the secret weapon. Everyone has opinions about the best snack or the worst day of the week, and the arguing over the middle positions is where it gets funny.
If nobody around you is up for it, a stranger might be. On Hush you can pick a Friends vibe and get matched with someone who also has time to kill, and a shower thought is a far better opener than hey.
Questions people ask
Pick something open-ended that needs imagination, like planning a restaurant from what is in your fridge or designing a new holiday. Questions that need creativity beat questions that need facts when energy is low.
Ask what you could do in ten minutes, who you miss, or what you have always wondered about but never looked up. Boredom often means you have time for something you keep postponing.
Yes, they are perfect for low-stakes conversations because there is no right answer and everyone has an opinion. They work especially well in group chats and on long drives.