247 things to argue about
A full hold of debate topics. Load one, light the fuse.
Every fight starts with a subject. Here are 247 of them, sorted into holds so you can find one fast. Pick any line, copy it into a custom list at arrrgue.com, choose a mode, and let the crew rank it into a Top 3, 5, or 10. There is no right answer and no wrong way to rank — that is the whole point. If you have never run a room before, read how to play first, then come back and start a proper argument.
Food & Drink
- Best pizza topping
- Worst pizza topping that people defend anyway
- Greatest breakfast food
- Most overrated restaurant chain
- Best condiment ever squeezed from a bottle
- Worst way to cook an egg
- Superior potato format (fry, mash, chip, roast)
- Best late-night drunk food
- Most disappointing fancy meal
- Greatest sandwich of all time
- Worst vegetable to be served raw
- Best flavour of crisp
- Most unnecessary kitchen gadget
- Best cheese, no hedging
- Worst coffee order to say out loud
- Greatest fast-food side that isn't the fries
- Best comfort food for a bad day
- Most overrated dessert
- Best thing to put on toast
- Worst dinner-party dish to be handed
- Superior hot beverage on a cold day
- Most overrated "healthy" snack
- Best pizza chain, no snobbery allowed
- Worst thing to microwave in a shared office
- Greatest ice cream flavour, ranked honestly
Movies & TV
- Best film sequel that beat the original
- Most rewatchable movie ever made
- Worst film everyone pretends to like
- Greatest TV finale
- Most infuriating TV finale
- Best animated film for grown crew
- Greatest movie villain
- Most overrated Oscar winner
- Best sitcom of all time
- Worst recurring plot twist
- Greatest heist movie
- Best film you can quote from memory
- Most disappointing final season
- Best comfort show to fall asleep to
- Greatest documentary that ruined your week
- Best fictional TV town to live in
- Worst casting decision in a big franchise
- Most quotable movie line
- Best movie soundtrack you'd listen to alone
- Most overrated prestige drama
- Greatest reality-TV format
- Worst film ending that ruined the whole thing
Music
- Greatest album, front to back
- Best song to end a night on
- Most overrated band of all time
- Best one-hit wonder
- Worst song that lives in your head rent-free
- Greatest breakup anthem
- Best road-trip track
- Most skippable song on a great album
- Greatest live performance you've seen or heard
- Best decade for music, prove it
- Worst genre to admit you like
- Best cover better than the original
- Greatest karaoke song for a coward
- Most overplayed wedding song
- Best instrumental with no words needed
- Greatest debut album
- Most overrated "legendary" musician
- Best song under two minutes long
- Worst lyric in an otherwise great song
Childhood & Nostalgia
- Greatest cartoon theme song
- Best schoolyard game
- Worst thing in a packed lunch
- Best toy you owned
- Most cursed childhood snack
- Greatest Saturday-morning cartoon
- Best playground insult
- Worst punishment a teacher ever handed out
- Best video game of your youth
- Most overrated childhood theme park ride
- Best birthday-party activity
- Worst fashion crime you committed as a kid
- Greatest picture book
- Best cereal that came with a prize
Hometown & Local
- Best local takeaway
- Worst road in town
- Most overrated local landmark
- Best pub within walking distance
- Worst place to park
- Greatest hidden gem the tourists miss
- Best local accent to imitate
- Most useless bit of local infrastructure
- Best day trip from here
- Worst weather month locally
- Best local legend nobody can prove
- Most missed shop that closed down
HOST NOTE
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Petty Everyday Grievances
- Worst household chore
- Most annoying sound a human can make
- Worst kind of queue-jumper
- Most infuriating password rule
- Worst seat on public transport
- Most useless drawer in the kitchen
- Worst way to be woken up
- Most passive-aggressive email sign-off
- Worst texture to touch
- Most overrated life admin task
- Worst noise a neighbour can make
- Most pointless piece of packaging
- Worst small talk opener
- Most annoying autocorrect habit
- Worst thing to run out of at the wrong moment
- Most irritating shared-fridge crime
Superheroes & Fandom
- Best superhero, powers and personality combined
- Most overrated superpower
- Best fictional weapon
- Greatest sci-fi spaceship
- Worst superhero costume
- Best fantasy world to be exiled to
- Greatest video-game protagonist
- Most punchable fictional character
- Best sidekick who outshone the hero
- Greatest fictional mentor
- Best comic-book redemption arc
- Worst franchise that refuses to end
- Most overpowered character in any story
- Best fictional currency
Holidays & Traditions
- Best holiday of the year
- Most overrated holiday
- Worst family tradition you endure
- Best festive food
- Worst gift you've received
- Greatest holiday film
- Most stressful part of the holidays
- Best decoration, worst decoration
- Worst party game a relative insists on
- Best excuse to leave a gathering early
- Most awkward gift exchange format
- Best public holiday that should exist but doesn't
Animals
- Best pet for a small flat
- Most overrated animal
- Scariest creature in the sea
- Best animal to be reincarnated as
- Worst insect to find indoors
- Cutest baby animal
- Most underrated bird
- Best animal in a fight, pound for pound
- Worst zoo animal to actually watch
- Greatest good boy in film or TV
- Most unfairly hated animal
- Best animal noise to imitate
- Best dog breed, brace for war
- Most overrated household pet
- Scariest land animal to meet unarmed
- Best animal mascot for a sports team
Hypotheticals
- Best superpower for everyday laziness
- Worst decade to be stranded in with no phone
- Best place to hide during an apocalypse
- Most useful skill to have if money didn't matter
- Best fictional job to actually do
- Worst way to become famous
- Best era to time-travel to for a single day
- Most tempting deal with a devil
- Best thing to be immortal for
- Worst wish a genie could technically grant
- Best animal to have the size of a horse
- Most useful item to have infinite of
- Best three people to have at a dinner, living or dead
- Worst superpower to have in public
Spicy & Controversial
- Most overrated tourist destination
- Best way to load a dishwasher, the only correct one
- Is a hot dog a sandwich
- Worst opinion that is technically defensible
- Best acceptable age to stop celebrating birthdays loudly
- Most overrated life milestone
- Worst social convention we should abolish
- Best hill to die on
- Most overrated compliment
- Worst trend the internet convinced everyone to try
- Best time to arrive at a party
- Most overrated luxury
- Worst thing to be a snob about
- Best excuse to cancel plans
- Most overrated form of exercise
Work & School
- Worst meeting that could have been an email
- Best excuse to work from home
- Most useless school subject in hindsight
- Worst office kitchen crime
- Best perk a job can offer
- Most overrated productivity trick
- Worst corporate buzzword
- Best day of the working week
- Most pointless bit of school homework
- Worst kind of coworker
- Best subject a teacher made bearable
- Most dreaded email subject line
- Worst team-building activity ever inflicted
- Best legitimate reason to leave early
Sports & Games
- Greatest athlete of all time
- Most boring sport to watch live
- Best board game for a long night
- Worst board game for keeping friends
- Greatest sporting upset
- Most overrated team, be brave
- Best playground sport with no real rules
- Worst rule in any sport
- Greatest pub game
- Best Olympic event nobody watches otherwise
- Most stressful game to play with family
- Best sport to be terrible at socially
Internet & Tech
- Best app you'd keep if forced to delete the rest
- Most overrated gadget of the decade
- Worst tech habit everyone has
- Greatest website that no longer exists
- Most annoying notification type
- Best emoji, one and only
- Worst online trend to survive too long
- Most useless smart-home device
- Best keyboard shortcut
- Worst autoplay decision ever made
- Most overrated streaming service
- Best invention of the last twenty years
- Worst thing to go viral for
- Most cursed group-chat behaviour
People You Know (gentle)
- Best cook in the room
- Most likely to survive a zombie outbreak
- Worst driver present, no names spared
- Most likely to become mildly famous
- Best gift-giver in the group
- Most likely to start an argument at dinner
- Best person to be stranded with
- Most reliable in a crisis
- Worst at keeping a secret
- Most likely to move abroad on a whim
- Best storyteller in the crew
- Most likely to overpack for one night away
Odds & Ends
- Best smell in the world
- Worst word in the language
- Best fictional food you can't actually eat
- Most overrated season
- Best colour, no context given
- Worst number to be assigned
- Best way to spend a free Sunday
- Most satisfying everyday task
- Best plot twist hidden on a treasure map
- Worst place to lose your phone
- Best small victory in a normal day
- Most overrated view from a window
- Best month of the year, defend it
- Worst chore disguised as self-care
- Greatest board game to ruin a friendship
- Best way to settle a tie when nobody agrees
That is the whole hold — pick a fight and rank it properly. Browse the modes to find the right one for your crew, learn the ropes in how to host, then start a crew and settle it once and for all.