Most Likely To: Thanksgiving Edition — 100 Questions for the Family Table

Most Likely To: Thanksgiving Edition is the game for the two-hour gap between "the turkey needs another hour" and actual food. Someone reads a prompt — "Most likely to fall asleep before the pie" or "Most likely to go back for thirds" — and everyone at the table points at the relative it fits on the count of three. It needs nothing but the people already in the kitchen, and it works with three generations at once. The easiest way to run it is the free Most Likely To game: type in everyone's names and let it pick a winner each round.

Short on time? Open the game, add the family, and start drawing. The full list of 100 Thanksgiving prompts is below — cooking, the table, football, the kids' table, travel and Black Friday, leftovers — and every one is clean enough for Grandma and the six-year-old to play together.

Why Most Likely To Works on Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving gathers people who love each other and have not been in a room since last Thanksgiving. The first hour is about traffic. Most Likely To skips it: one prompt about burning the rolls, and everyone is pointing at the same cousin and laughing. It gives a mixed-age table something to do that is not the news and not a phone.

It is also the one game where nobody has to know anything. No trivia, no rules to read, no cards to shuffle. The grandparents win the memory prompts, the kids win the leftovers prompts, and the cook wins every round of the cooking set whether they like it or not.

How to Play at the Table

Point on three. Read a prompt, count to three, and everyone points at the relative it fits best. The most-pointed-at person wins the round and has to confirm or deny. Keep a tally; the champion picks the first slice of pie.

Kids vs. grown-ups. Two teams. Read a prompt; each team points at someone on the other team. Whichever team gets pointed at more loses the round. The kids' table set makes this very lopsided.

Game mode. The free online game holds everyone's names, draws a prompt in big text on the TV, and picks the winner — so the cook can play from the stove and nobody has to read.

The Big List: 100 Most Likely To Questions for Thanksgiving

Copy these into the game or read them straight off the screen. Every prompt is clean, family-safe, and built to make the whole table point at one relative.

Cooking the Meal

1. Most likely to start cooking at 5 a.m.
2. Most likely to set off the smoke alarm
3. Most likely to forget the rolls in the oven
4. Most likely to leave the giblet bag inside the turkey
5. Most likely to make gravy from a packet and call it homemade
6. Most likely to use every pot in the house
7. Most likely to taste-test half the stuffing before it reaches the table
8. Most likely to bring a store-bought pie and put it on their own plate
9. Most likely to have a side dish nobody touches
10. Most likely to cry over a pie crust
11. Most likely to have the turkey take two hours longer than planned
12. Most likely to run to the store on Thanksgiving morning
13. Most likely to refuse all help in the kitchen
14. Most likely to have a secret recipe they won't share
15. Most likely to cook enough for forty people
16. Most likely to burn their hand on the oven door
17. Most likely to serve dinner two hours late and act like it was the plan

The Family Table

1. Most likely to go back for thirds
2. Most likely to unbutton their pants at the table
3. Most likely to fall asleep before the pie
4. Most likely to say grace for too long
5. Most likely to take the last roll without asking
6. Most likely to bring up something embarrassing from twenty years ago
7. Most likely to ask about everyone's love life
8. Most likely to feed the dog under the table
9. Most likely to skip the turkey and eat only sides
10. Most likely to spill cranberry sauce on the good tablecloth
11. Most likely to be asked to carve and have no idea how
12. Most likely to pretend to like a dish someone is proud of
13. Most likely to get stuck at the folding table in the hallway
14. Most likely to give the longest "what I'm thankful for" speech
15. Most likely to say they're thankful for the food just to end their turn
16. Most likely to take a family photo where someone is blinking
17. Most likely to eat dessert before dinner because it was sitting there

Football & the Couch

1. Most likely to fall asleep during the game and deny it
2. Most likely to yell at the TV and scare the dog
3. Most likely to miss dinner because the game went to overtime
4. Most likely to take the best spot on the couch and never move
5. Most likely to cheer for a team they don't follow
6. Most likely to play backyard football and pull something
7. Most likely to watch the parade instead of the game
8. Most likely to eat a full plate on the couch
9. Most likely to argue about a call with someone twice their age
10. Most likely to pretend to understand a penalty
11. Most likely to bet dessert on the game
12. Most likely to watch the game on their phone at the table
13. Most likely to get grass stains on their nice clothes
14. Most likely to be asleep before halftime
15. Most likely to know every player's name
16. Most likely to only watch for the commercials

The Kids' Table

1. Most likely to be sent to the kids' table as an adult
2. Most likely to start a food fight
3. Most likely to build something out of mashed potatoes
4. Most likely to be the oldest one at the kids' table
5. Most likely to sneak rolls from the grown-ups' table
6. Most likely to make a hand turkey that ends up on the fridge
7. Most likely to be too loud and get shushed
8. Most likely to finish dinner in five minutes to go play
9. Most likely to hide under the table
10. Most likely to teach a younger cousin something they shouldn't
11. Most likely to get promoted to the grown-ups' table and want to go back
12. Most likely to spill a drink and blame a cousin
13. Most likely to be served on a paper plate while everyone else gets real ones
14. Most likely to ask when dessert is every ten minutes
15. Most likely to eat only the turkey and nothing else
16. Most likely to fall asleep under the table

Travel & Black Friday

1. Most likely to drive five hours for a two-hour dinner
2. Most likely to get stuck in traffic longer than the meal lasts
3. Most likely to fly home on the busiest travel day of the year
4. Most likely to sleep on the couch and call it a bed
5. Most likely to get up before dawn for Black Friday
6. Most likely to wait in a Black Friday line and buy nothing
7. Most likely to shop online from the couch instead
8. Most likely to get lost on the way to a house they've been to twenty times
9. Most likely to bring a dish that doesn't survive the car ride
10. Most likely to do two Thanksgivings in one day
11. Most likely to drive through snow to make it
12. Most likely to buy a Christmas gift on Black Friday and keep it
13. Most likely to fall asleep in the car on the way home
14. Most likely to be the last to leave
15. Most likely to start decorating for Christmas that same night
16. Most likely to already be planning next year's menu on the drive home

Leftovers

1. Most likely to eat a turkey sandwich at midnight
2. Most likely to have pie for breakfast
3. Most likely to take home more leftovers than they brought food
4. Most likely to eat stuffing cold from the container
5. Most likely to hide the last piece of pie
6. Most likely to eat leftovers for a full week
7. Most likely to make a leftover casserole better than the original
8. Most likely to fight over the last of the cranberry sauce
9. Most likely to put gravy in a coffee mug because they ran out of containers
10. Most likely to reheat turkey four days straight
11. Most likely to eat mashed potatoes with a spoon from the fridge
12. Most likely to label leftovers with their name
13. Most likely to prefer the leftovers to the actual dinner
14. Most likely to throw out something still good because the fridge is full
15. Most likely to be caught eating pie over the sink
16. Most likely to claim the wishbone
17. Most likely to ask for a plate to go before dinner is even over
18. Most likely to count the days until next Thanksgiving

Tips for the Host

Start the game when the turkey has an hour to go and the kitchen is crowded with people trying to help. Read one prompt from each group so everyone gets pointed at for something. Hand the phone to the cook for the cooking set — being pointed at is more fun when you are the one reading.

Keep a list of the prompts that got the biggest reaction and write them on the back of the recipe card for whatever was cooking at the time. Ten years in, the family cookbook is half recipes and half Most Likely To winners.

Add Your Own Family Prompts

The best prompts are about your own table. Take a real thing — the aunt who always brings the same green bean casserole, the cousin who shows up as the pie comes out — and put "Most likely to" in front of it. Add three new ones every year from whatever went wrong that day. The year the turkey caught fire deserves its own prompt, and it will get one.

Frequently Asked Questions

Are these Thanksgiving questions clean enough for kids and grandparents together?

Yes. Every prompt is about cooking, eating, football or travel — nothing political, nothing about anyone's health or money, and nothing that singles out a relative in a hurtful way. The whole table can play.

How do you play Most Likely To with a big family?

Read a prompt, count to three, and everyone points at the relative it fits best. The most-pointed-at person wins the round. For a very large group, split into kids versus grown-ups and have each team point at the other.

Can the cook play?

Yes — the cook plays from the stove and someone else reads. The cooking set was written so the cook wins every round of it, which is the point.

Is there a Christmas version?

Yes, the site has a Christmas edition with the same format. Families who play both say Thanksgiving is funnier because of the cooking and leftovers sets.

Can relatives on a video call play too?

Yes. The free Most Likely To game runs in the browser, so relatives who couldn't travel can see the prompt on their phones and vote along with the table.

Ready to Play at the Table?

You've got 100 Thanksgiving prompts, three ways to run them, and a set that finally settles who goes back for thirds. Make it effortless:

👉 Open the free Most Likely To game — add the family, draw a prompt in big text on the TV, and let it pick who's most likely. No app, no signup. 🦃

Who's most likely to fall asleep before the pie? Everyone already knows.