Mystery Scenarios
15 situations with no clean answer. Decide together and see if you can.
15 questions · Free
A friend tells you they are cheating on their partner, who is also your friend. What do you do?
One phone between the two of you — the card says whose turn it is.
About Mystery Scenarios
Mystery scenarios for couples are dilemmas you have to solve together rather than answer individually. Each of these 15 situations has no correct answer, and the rule is that you must reach one decision between you — which turns out to be a much better test of how you make decisions than any quiz.
Sample questions to get you started
- 1A friend tells you they are cheating on their partner, who is also your friend. What do you do?
- 2You find a wallet with £500 and an address in it. What happens next?
- 3Your employer is doing something legal but clearly wrong. Do you say anything?
- 4A family member asks to borrow money you can afford but will not see again.
- 5You are offered a job you want in a city your partner does not want to live in.
- 6You find out a close friend has been lying about something significant for years.
- 7A neighbour's child is being treated in a way that worries you but is not clearly wrong.
- 8You accidentally see a message on your partner's phone that changes something.
- 9Your parents need care and neither sibling can do it, but you could.
- 10You are given an anonymous gift of £50,000 with no conditions.
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- 11You can save one person's job by taking a pay cut yourself. Do you?
- 12You discover a mistake in your favour that nobody will ever notice.
- 13A friend asks you to lie for them about something small but consequential.
- 14You have to choose between your partner's wishes and your parent's dying request.
- 15You can know one true thing about your partner they would never tell you. Do you take it?
Tap the game above to play through all prompts.
How to play Mystery Scenarios
- Read the scenario out loud.
- Discuss until you reach one decision you both agree to.
- No agreeing to disagree. You have to land somewhere.
- Notice who moved, and talk about that afterwards.
Why couples love this game
You learn more from watching someone negotiate than from hearing their position. Requiring a single joint answer means one of you has to move, and how that happens — who concedes, how quickly, whether anyone is annoyed — is the actual information.
Tips to make it more fun
- Pay attention to how you got to the answer, not just the answer.
- If one of you always concedes, that is worth discussing.
- It is a very good long-drive game.
- Excellent with another couple, who will disagree with both of you.
Frequently asked questions
How do you play mystery scenarios?
Read the situation and discuss it until you reach a single decision you both agree to. Agreeing to disagree is not allowed — the requirement to land somewhere is what makes the game work.
What do these scenarios reveal?
How you make decisions together rather than what you individually believe. Who moves, how fast, and whether anyone resents it afterwards is far more informative than the answers themselves.
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