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Easy openers. Safe for anyone.

1. Walk a route neither of you has taken, no map, no destination.
2. Cook the strangest thing in the cupboard and rate the result out of ten.
3. Take the last bus to the end of the line and walk back.
4. Read to each other from a book neither of you has opened.
5. Find the highest point you can reach on foot and watch the light change.
6. Reorganise one room together and put music on loud.
7. Do the whole evening by candlelight with every screen switched off.
8. Go to a supermarket and each pick three things the other must eat.
9. Sit in a busy place and invent the life story of everyone who passes.
10. Learn one card trick from a video and perform it badly for each other.
11. Write your bucket lists separately, then swap and steal from each other's.
12. Take photographs of each other in five completely different places.
13. Go to a library and each choose a book for the other, no negotiation.
14. Make a playlist together where you alternate songs and can't skip.
15. Cook the meal you had on your first date, or the closest you can manage.
16. Watch the sunrise, then go straight back to bed.
17. Pick a country and spend the evening only eating and listening to things from there.
18. Draw each other's portrait in five minutes without looking at the paper.
19. Walk somewhere at night just to see how different it is.
20. Build the best blanket fort you can and stay in it all evening.
21. Pack a picnic from whatever is already in the fridge and eat it on the floor of the living room.
22. Hold a two-person talent show with a hairbrush for a microphone.
23. Visit an open house for a place you could never afford and plan where the piano would go.
24. Hunt down the best free view in town and bring two mugs of hot chocolate.
25. Recreate a famous painting using only things from your closet and snap a photo.
26. Play hide and seek in the dark in your own home.
27. Sketch a map of your dream house on one big sheet of paper.
28. Challenge each other to a paper airplane contest off the back steps.
29. Make homemade pizza where each of you secretly tops half of it for the other.
30. Sort through old photos and tell the story behind each one you pick.
31. Borrow a dog from a friend for an afternoon walk.
32. Stargaze from the backyard with a free app that names the constellations.
33. Swap childhood cartoons and watch one episode of each.
34. Cook breakfast for dinner, pajamas required.
35. Write each other a letter to be opened in a year and seal it.
36. Try a free yoga video together and laugh through the hardest pose.
37. Go window shopping and furnish an imaginary apartment.
38. Walk through a cemetery in daylight and read the oldest stones.
39. Throw a tiny dance party in the kitchen with the lights off.
40. Build a fort outdoors from sticks, sheets, and stubbornness.
41. Hold a blind taste test of five kinds of chips.
42. Plant something from seed and give it a ridiculous name.
43. Ride the ferry or train there and back just for the view.
44. Visit a free museum and each pick your least favorite piece to defend.
45. Teach each other the one thing you're weirdly good at.
46. Put together a thousand-piece puzzle and don't stop until the corners are done.
47. Tour your town like tourists: every plaque, every statue, every fountain.
48. Wash the car together and turn it into a water fight.
49. Spread a blanket at a local park and people-watch until the lamps come on.
50. Find a free outdoor concert or open mic and stay for the whole thing.
51. Bake cookies from a recipe in a language neither of you speaks.
52. Plan a fake vacation down to the hour, then pick one piece to actually do.
53. Play a board game from your childhood and argue about the rules.
54. Walk to get ice cream in the rain.
55. Make up a secret handshake and refuse to explain it to anyone.
56. Write a short story together, one sentence each, taking turns.
57. Visit a pet shelter and read to the shy animals.
58. Go to a farmers market with ten dollars and cook whatever you can buy.
59. Film a silly music video on your phone for a song you both love.
60. Turn off the lights and tell ghost stories by flashlight.
61. Take a nap together in the middle of a Saturday afternoon.
62. Choose a random street in your town and walk it end to end.
63. Hold an indoor picnic with a tablecloth, candles, and finger food only.
64. Watch the worst-reviewed movie you can find and write your own review.
65. Build something out of cardboard boxes that is bigger than both of you.
66. Go to a bookstore and read the first page of ten books aloud to each other.
67. Cook with only five ingredients and give the dish a fancy name.
68. Lie on the grass and find shapes in the clouds.
69. Try a free class at the community center, whatever is on that night.
70. Play a round of mini golf you design yourselves around the house.
71. Watch the planes take off from the edge of the airport.
72. Swap phones for an hour and curate each other's wallpaper and playlist.
73. Make a time capsule from things in your pockets and bury it.
74. Collect leaves, shells, or stones on a walk and build a tiny gallery.
75. Head to the beach or lake after dark and listen to the water.
76. Learn the words to a duet and perform it for nobody.
77. Brew coffee three different ways and crown a winner.
78. Give each other a ten-minute tour of your favorite corner of the internet.
79. Spend an evening answering the questions you'd ask on a first date again.
80. Write a list of fifty tiny things you love about each other, taking turns.
81. Browse a thrift store and buy each other an outfit under ten dollars.
82. Plant yourselves at a diner counter and order the strangest pie they have.
83. Ride bikes to the edge of town and back before dinner.
84. Go to a high school game in your neighborhood and cheer for whoever is losing.

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Worth Booking · 83 questions

Personal, but not heavy.

1. Book a cooking class for a cuisine neither of you can pronounce.
2. Do an escape room and find out how you both behave under pressure.
3. Go to a pottery studio and make something deliberately terrible.
4. Take a dance lesson for a style you'd never normally try.
5. Rent bikes and follow a river as far as you can get before turning back.
6. Book a table at the strangest restaurant within an hour of you.
7. Go to a comedy club and sit close enough to be picked on.
8. Do a wine or whisky tasting and pretend to know what you're saying.
9. Spend a day in a city neither of you has visited and get deliberately lost.
10. Book a photo session and get pictures of yourselves that aren't from a phone.
11. Go to a live gig for a band you've never heard of.
12. Take a boat out on water, however small the boat and the water.
13. Do a full spa day, phones locked in the car.
14. Go to a museum after hours if your city does late openings.
15. Try axe throwing, archery, or something else with a satisfying thud.
16. Book a night somewhere within two hours of home and treat it like abroad.
17. Do a food tour of one street: starter, main and dessert at three places.
18. Go to the theater for something you'd normally scroll past.
19. Take a pottery, glass or woodwork workshop and come home with an object.
20. Go to a rooftop bar, order the most expensive thing, and stay for one drink.
21. Take a glassblowing class and make two matching cups.
22. Treat yourselves to a cheese and chocolate pairing night somewhere cozy.
23. Go to a drive-in movie and bring far too many snacks.
24. Rent a kayak for two and paddle to the far side of the lake.
25. Take a trapeze or aerial silks lesson and try not to scream.
26. Try an improv class and play characters you'd never be at work.
27. Spend an evening at a jazz club and sit near the stage.
28. Go horseback riding on a trail you've never seen.
29. Take a candle-making class and name your scent after an inside joke.
30. Buy tickets to a planetarium show and hold hands in the dark.
31. Visit an arcade with a stack of tokens and a friendly bet.
32. Sign up for a mixology class and invent a drink named after each other.
33. Go indoor rock climbing and belay for each other.
34. Sail into the sunset on a dinner cruise out on the water.
35. Visit a pick-your-own orchard and bake something with the haul that night.
36. Go ice skating and hold on for dear life.
37. Rent a tandem bike and learn to steer as a team.
38. Take a salsa lesson and go out dancing right after.
39. Visit an aquarium in the evening when the crowds are gone.
40. Rent a private karaoke room and sing every power ballad.
41. Attend a murder mystery dinner and accuse each other.
42. Head to a ballet, opera, or symphony dressed up like it matters.
43. Get a couples massage and don't talk for an hour.
44. Try a paint-and-sip class and trade canvases at the end.
45. Go ziplining through the trees.
46. Visit a botanical garden during a special light show.
47. Sit at a chef's counter and watch everything get made.
48. Rent a convertible for a day and take the long coastal road.
49. Sign up for a surfing or paddleboard lesson and wipe out together.
50. Spend an afternoon at a hot springs or a bathhouse.
51. Crash a trivia night at a bar and pick a terrible team name.
52. Sign up for a bread-baking workshop and bring home the loaf still warm.
53. Try a sensory deprivation float, then compare what you thought about.
54. Book a ghost tour of the oldest part of town.
55. Grab tickets to a minor league baseball game and eat the silliest ballpark food.
56. Sign up for a calligraphy class and write each other a note.
57. Visit a vineyard or brewery and take the tour, not just the tasting.
58. Roller skate at the rink on an eighties night.
59. Book a behind-the-scenes tour of a zoo or a theater.
60. Sign up for a flower-arranging class and give each other the bouquets.
61. Rent a cabin for one night and cook dinner over a fire.
62. Bowl a few frames under black lights on cosmic bowling night.
63. Sign up for a tango class and commit to the dramatic faces.
64. Book a helicopter tour of your own city.
65. Wander a food festival and split one bite of everything.
66. Enroll in a stand-up comedy workshop and perform five minutes each.
67. Try a silent disco and dance to different channels on purpose.
68. Grab tickets to a rodeo, a monster truck show, or anything neither of you would pick.
69. Spend a night at a bed and breakfast run by a chatty owner.
70. Join a photography walk with a local guide.
71. Catch an outdoor movie in the park with a real picnic basket.
72. Bounce around a trampoline park and act twelve.
73. Learn knife skills in a class and cook dinner with your new moves.
74. Visit a jazz brunch and stay until they kick you out.
75. Hop a train to a small town for lunch and come back by dark.
76. Check into a fancy hotel in your own city for no reason.
77. Browse the designs at a tattoo parlor, or get matching tiny ones.
78. Try a go-kart track and settle an old argument.
79. Try a perfume-making class and design a scent for each other.
80. Buy seats at a live taping of a local radio or TV show.
81. Sign up for a sushi-rolling class and eat every mistake.
82. Visit a butterfly house and stay until one lands on someone.
83. Rent a rowboat in a city park and row in slow circles.

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Once in a Lifetime · 83 questions

The ones that stay with you.

1. Book a hot air balloon at sunrise.
2. Spend a night somewhere with no light pollution and stay up for the stars.
3. Take a sleeper train and wake up somewhere else.
4. Do a skydive, or watch the other one do it and hold the bag.
5. Swim somewhere wild — a lake, a river, the sea at dawn.
6. Go to a country neither of you can find on a map without checking.
7. Book a cabin with no signal for three days and see what surfaces.
8. See the northern lights, or start seriously planning it tonight.
9. Do a long walk over several days and carry everything you need.
10. Learn to sail, dive or fly and finish the course together.
11. Spend a whole day doing only what the other person chooses.
12. Renew, plan or invent a ceremony that means something only to you two.
13. Take a road trip with no booked stops and see where you sleep.
14. Volunteer together somewhere that will take a week of your life.
15. Go to the place one of you grew up and get the full unedited tour.
16. Book the restaurant you've both been saving for a reason that never came.
17. Take the trip one of you has quietly wanted since before you met.
18. Go somewhere at the exact wrong time of year and enjoy it anyway.
19. Do the thing you've been describing as 'one day' for over a year.
20. Plan the next ten years in one evening and write it down properly.
21. Go on safari and see a lion in the wild.
22. Watch the sun rise from the top of a mountain you climbed in the dark.
23. Float in a bioluminescent bay at night.
24. Walk a famous pilgrimage route for a week.
25. Ride a gondola through Venice at the quietest hour you can find.
26. Spend a night in a treehouse hotel far from any road.
27. Go cage diving, snorkel with whales, or swim with sea turtles.
28. Rent a houseboat for a week and drift wherever the river goes.
29. Take a cooking class in the country where the food was invented.
30. Watch a total solar eclipse from the path of totality.
31. Drive the full length of a famous highway, start to finish.
32. Stay in a glass igloo under the winter sky.
33. Spend a month living somewhere new and working remotely.
34. Hike to a glacier and hear it crack.
35. Take a hot air balloon over a desert, a vineyard, or ancient ruins.
36. Go to a festival on the other side of the world that you've only seen in photos.
37. Learn to scuba dive and see a coral reef together.
38. Ride a train across a whole country from coast to coast.
39. Spend a night in a castle.
40. Climb a volcano and look into the crater.
41. Watch a meteor shower from the middle of a desert.
42. Book a table at a restaurant so famous there's a waiting list.
43. Build something lasting together, like a bench, a garden, or a little cabin.
44. Take a dog sled across snow under a pink sky.
45. See a wonder of the world at dawn before the tour buses arrive.
46. Go back to where you first met and relive the whole evening.
47. Take a transatlantic crossing by ship instead of by plane.
48. Fly somewhere on a one-way ticket and decide the return later.
49. Visit the villages your families came from and look for the names.
50. Go stargazing at a dark-sky park with a real telescope.
51. Learn a new language together, then go use it where it's spoken.
52. Hike to a hut in the mountains and sleep above the clouds.
53. Paddle a canoe through wilderness for a few days, camping on the shore.
54. Take a cooking tour of a single country, one region at a time.
55. Swim in a waterfall pool that took all day to reach.
56. Watch the sun set from a sailboat in the open ocean.
57. See the cherry blossoms in bloom where they are most famous.
58. Run a race together that neither of you thought you could finish.
59. Spend a night at a remote lighthouse.
60. Visit the stadium, stage, or city of the one thing you've both loved forever.
61. Stay in a cottage by the sea through a winter storm.
62. Ride horses across a beach at sunset.
63. Spend a whole summer saying yes to every invitation, together.
64. Travel with no phones for a full week and keep a shared paper journal.
65. Head into the desert and sleep under the stars in a camp far from the road.
66. Plant a tree somewhere you plan to visit for the rest of your lives.
67. Walk across a city from one edge to the other in a single day.
68. Rent a vintage car and drive through wine country.
69. Ride the rails through the Alps with nowhere to be.
70. Go to the Olympics, a World Cup, or a final you'll never forget.
71. Celebrate a birthday in the place the other has always talked about.
72. Stay in a hut on stilts above turquoise water.
73. Watch the northern lights from a hot tub in the snow.
74. Fly to a city just for one famous meal and fly home the next day.
75. Retreat for a long weekend to a monastery where talking is optional.
76. Hike the rim of a canyon and camp at the bottom.
77. Write and bind a book about your life together, then read it aloud on a trip.
78. Retrace the route of a trip one of your grandparents once took.
79. Travel to see an animal on the edge of disappearing.
80. Throw a party for everyone who made your relationship possible.
81. Learn to fly a small plane, even just for one lesson each.
82. Say yes to an adventure the other person picks without telling you where.
83. Spend New Year's Eve somewhere the year arrives first.

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