Would You Rather Soccer: 200 Cursed Choices and Counting
I built a would you rather soccer game because the group chat kept doing it badly. Someone would post "a selfie with a legend or dinner with his rival", three people would answer, and then it died because nobody had a next question ready. So I wrote two hundred of them, then wrote a machine that writes more, and put a big A card and a big B card on a phone screen. Tap one, see what everyone else picked, next. That is the entire loop.
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Would you rather soccer questions, minus the right answer
The questions come in three flavours. Star dilemmas, where you trade one impossible thing for another. Fan-life dilemmas: your club wins the lot, or your rival goes down, but not both. And pure nonsense, which is the category I am proudest of and which I will not spoil here. There is no scoring, no quiz, and no answer key, because the moment a would you rather has a correct answer it stops being fun. This is a soccer balance game in the Korean sense of "balance": both options are supposed to be equally unbearable.
Each round is one screen: a blue card for A, a red card for B, a VS badge in the middle, and a streak counter up top for how many you have answered in a row. You pick A or B by tapping the card. That is it, deliberately. I tested a version with a timer and it made people rush past the good ones.
The generator behind "endless"
Two hundred hand-written questions sounds like a lot until a bored friend clears them in one train ride. So under the curated set there is a generator: a dozen sentence templates and three word pools (players, perks, situations) that get combined on the fly into new questions. The app mixes roughly sixty percent curated with forty percent generated and remembers the last thirty so you do not see repeats back to back. In practice you run out of patience long before you run out of questions, which is what "endless" is meant to mean here.
None of this needs a server. The questions ship inside the app, so it works on a plane, on the underground, or anywhere your signal dies. There is nothing to sign up for.
The percentages are a bit of a lie, on purpose
After you choose, both cards fill with a percentage: "62% picked the same as you". I want to be straight about this because it is the feature people ask about most. Those numbers are not live votes. The app has no server, so it cannot count anyone. Each question's split is computed from the question itself, which means the same question always shows the same split, for everyone, forever. It behaves like a shared statistic without being one.
I tried the honest alternative, no percentages at all, and the game fell flat. What makes a would you rather work in person is finding out you are the weird one, and the fixed split gives you that moment reliably. Screenshot it, post it in the chat, and argue. That was always the goal.
You will notice the app never shows a player photo, a club crest, or a kit. That is deliberate too. The fun is in the sentence, and I would rather keep the app clean than decorate it with things I do not own.
Who this is for
- Anyone hunting for would you rather questions for soccer fans that do not run out after ten
- Group chats that need a fresh fight every match day
- Friends at a bar settling who is the bigger lunatic
- People who open an app to kill five seconds and lose thirty minutes
Free, offline, no account. Ads keep the lights on, and that is the only thing that ever touches the network.
Download (Google Play, free): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thefacegood.balancefootball
※ The app is unofficial fan content. Percentages are generated, not collected, and are for fun only.
If you have a dilemma that belongs in the curated two hundred, send it. The rule is that both halves have to hurt.
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