Guide
40 How Well Do You Know Me Questions for Couples
Forty how well do you know me questions for couples, from easy everyday ones to long-distance and future ones, plus a free two-player game that asks them and keeps score.
Long distance date night ideas
A date night over video needs a plan, or it turns into the same call you have every other evening. The plan does not need to be big. Pick a start time, agree to put the phones away apart from the one you are talking on, and have two or three things lined up. A game is the easiest of those to get right, because it gives the evening a middle. Below are the games that suit a date, and further down, what to put around them.
Games to build a virtual date night around
1. How Well Do You Know Me
Start here. You each answer and each guess, and the reveals do the work of a good conversation starter. Play the Couples pack early in the evening, and the Future or Deep pack later, once you have settled in.
About 5 min a game · How to play How Well Do You Know Me
2. In Sync
A two-minute warm-up while the food arrives. You score together for landing on the same side, so it sets a friendlier tone than opening with something competitive.
About 2 min a game · How to play In Sync
3. Word Duel
The same secret word, both guessing at once. It is quick and a little competitive, and it has a clear winner, which is what you want for deciding who picks the film.
About 5 min a game · How to play Word Duel
4. Battleship
The main event. Ten minutes or more of calling shots at each other, with a proper ending. It is the closest thing here to a board game on the table between you.
About 10 min a game · How to play Battleship
5. Dice Duel
A Yahtzee-style game for the end of the night, when you want to keep playing but have stopped wanting to think. Luck keeps it close, whoever is better at games.
About 10 min a game · How to play Dice Duel
6. Connect 4
For a best-of-five with something riding on it. Loser writes the next letter, or plans the next visit's first dinner.
About 4 min a game · How to play Connect 4
A date night that runs itself
Here is an evening that works. Order each other dinner, or cook the same recipe on video. While you wait, play In Sync. Eat together. Then How Well Do You Know Me with the Couples pack, and let the answers turn into whatever conversation they turn into. After that, something with a winner: Word Duel or a best of five at Connect 4, with the film choice as the prize. Watch the film with a countdown to press play. If neither of you wants to hang up, finish on Dice Duel.
None of it needs setting up in advance. Whoever starts a game sends the link in the chat and the other person taps it.
More virtual date ideas to go with a game
Cook the same meal from the same recipe and compare the results. Take each other on a walk round your neighbourhood on video. Send a parcel ahead of time and open it on the call. Pick a city neither of you has been to and plan a trip there, down to the restaurants. Read the same book and argue about it. Build a shared playlist one song at a time, each explaining the choice.
A game fits beside any of these. It fills the gaps where a call would otherwise go quiet, such as while the oven heats up or after the film ends.
When your evenings don't line up
If the time difference means one of you is having breakfast, have a breakfast date. Or don't try to overlap at all: keep a slow game of Checkers or Reversi going through the week, one move at a time, and save the live games for the weekend.
Questions
- What can long-distance couples do for date night?
- Eat together on video, play a couple of games, and watch something in sync. The games on this page are free and run in the browser next to the call, so there is nothing to arrange beyond sending a link.
- What is a good game for a virtual date?
- How Well Do You Know Me, because it starts conversations you would not have had otherwise. Follow it with something competitive like Word Duel or Battleship.
- Do we need to pay or sign up for anything?
- No. Every game is free, with no ads and no accounts. You type a name so the other person knows it is you.
- Can we play while on a video call?
- Yes, that is how they are meant to be played. Keep the call going and open the game in your browser. On a phone the call shrinks to a small window while you play.
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60 This or That Questions for Couples and Friends
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