30 challenges to do with friends (even long distance)
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A good challenge between friends is fun, quick and safe: you can do it in a few minutes, wherever you are. Here are 30 ideas sorted by mood, to send by message… or to slip into a waited photo that your friend can only unlock sooner by taking them on.
Easy ones, to get started
- Send me a voice note of you singing the chorus of your song of the moment.
- Show me what you can see out of your window, right now.
- Send me a photo of your breakfast, even if it’s a sad one.
- Sum up your day in three emojis.
- Send me the meme that sums up your day.
Funny ones
- Pull your best funny face in a photo.
- Talk like a pirate in your next voice note.
- Tell me your worst joke. If I laugh, I lose.
- Write a four-line poem about your favorite food.
- Do the weather forecast for where you are, TV-presenter style.
For your best friend
- Dig up the oldest photo of the two of us.
- Tell the story of our biggest laughing fit in three sentences.
- Tell me something you’ve never dared to tell me (a nice one).
- Pick the song that sums us up and send it to me.
- Name three things about me you’re jealous of.
Long distance
- Call me tonight, even for five minutes.
- Send me a one-minute voice note about your day.
- Tonight we watch the same movie, each at home, and text about it live.
- Take a photo of your sky at the same time as me.
- Send me a postcard. A real one, by mail.
Creative ones
- Draw me in 30 seconds and send the result.
- Photograph an everyday object from an angle that makes it unrecognizable. I have to guess what it is.
- Recreate a famous album cover with whatever you have around.
- Invent a recipe with three things from your fridge, and show me the result.
- Write me a message made only of song titles.
Good deeds
- Send a kind message to someone you haven’t talked to in ages.
- Go for a 20-minute walk without your phone, then tell me about it.
- Tidy one corner of your room and send me the before and after.
- Finally do the thing you’ve been putting off for a week.
- Call one of your grandparents, or someone you love, to catch up.
The rules of a good challenge
- Safe: never anything risky, illegal or that could hurt someone.
- No humiliation: you laugh together, never at someone.
- Nothing intimate: asking for an intimate or nude photo isn’t a challenge, it’s pressure. It’s not allowed on waited.
- Quick: a good challenge takes a few minutes, or your friend will just wait instead.
Sending these challenges with waited
On waited, challenges are how you unlock a photo sooner. Take a photo, choose how long your friend will have to wait, then add one or more challenges, each with the credits it earns (1 credit = 1 hour less waiting). Your friend says “Done”, you approve, they earn the credits and can use them to open your photo sooner.
You can also pick 🎯 mode: no timer, the photo only opens once all your challenges are approved. And your favorite challenges are saved in your sending preferences, so you can add them in one tap.
Frequently asked questions
What challenge can I send a friend who lives far away?
One they can do with a phone: a voice note, a photo of what they can see, a five-minute call, a quick drawing. The best ones take a few minutes, wherever you are.
Which challenges should I avoid?
Anything dangerous, humiliating, illegal or intimate. Asking for an intimate photo is never a challenge: it’s pressure, and it’s not allowed on waited.
How do I send a friend a challenge with a photo?
With waited: send them a photo to unlock and add your challenges. Your friend has to wait… or take them on to see it sooner.
Want to try it?
waited is free, on iPhone and Android.