36 questions by candlelight
Dim the lights, light a candle and go through 36 Questions for Love. Finish with four minutes of looking into each other’s eyes.
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First date ideas
35 first date ideas: light, with something to talk about and easy to extend. No stress and no awkward silences.
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36 questions by candlelight
Dim the lights, light a candle and go through 36 Questions for Love. Finish with four minutes of looking into each other’s eyes.First date ideas
Would You Rather over dinner
Play Would You Rather while you eat. Reveal your picks on three, and every difference is a topic for a longer chat.
🔗 Handy: Would You Rather?Tourists in your own city
Explore your city like tourists: a guidebook, photos at the monuments and lunch at the place you always walk past.
Random stop
Get on the first bus or tram and get off at a stop chosen by a dice roll. Find a coffee there.
Food market
Go to a food market, each buy one thing you have never tasted, and share it.
A museum mission
In a museum, each of you looks for the piece that most resembles the other. Then a presentation with reasons.
Mystery screening
Go to the cinema for a film you know nothing about. No trailers, no reviews, just the title.
Bowling for dessert
Bowling, pool or mini golf, with dessert after the game at stake. Whoever loses pays, no arguing.
Ice rink and hot chocolate
Laps on the ice, holding hands for safety and hot chocolate to warm up.
A book for each other
In a second-hand bookshop, each of you picks a book for the other, for 20 zł at most. Swap them over coffee.
A themed photo walk
Pick a theme, like red doors or cats in windows, and hunt for photos for an hour. Choose the best one in the evening.
Café ranking
Visit three cafés in one afternoon and score them: coffee, cake, atmosphere. The winner becomes your café.
Sunset from above
Find the highest spot around: a hill, a viewpoint or a car park roof, and watch the sunset with a thermos.
Escape room
An escape room is a quick teamwork test: who leads, who searches, who gets the idea first. Debrief over dinner.
A blind gig
A small gig in a club or café, by a band you don’t know. Best if you buy the tickets without listening to a single song first.
A board game café
Many cities have board game cafés. Pick a game you don’t know and ask the staff to explain the rules.
A three-stop dinner
Starter in one place, main course in another, dessert in a third. The walk between them is part of the dinner.
Ten-zloty gifts
Split up at a mall or market for half an hour. Each of you buys the other a gift for 10 zł at most.
A planetarium night
A sky show at a planetarium or an observatory. Then a walk to find the Big Dipper in the real sky.
Takeaway coffee and a walk
The simplest first date: coffee to go and a walk. Easy to extend and easy to end.
Two scoops, two new flavours
Each of you orders a flavour you have never tried and gives the other half.
A flea market
A flea market is a treasure trove of topics: every object is a question, a story or a joke. The limit is one thing to buy each.
A Christmas market
A Christmas market, mulled wine or hot cider in a mug and one ornament that will remind you of this evening every year.
Rollerblades or scooters
Rent rollerblades or scooters and ride along the river. Whoever falls buys the ice cream.
A surprise picnic
Each of you brings one secret thing to the picnic: a snack, a game or something to read. The reveal happens on the blanket.
A bike ride for ice cream
Plan a route to the farthest ice cream place you can reach in an hour. Ride back slower.
A phone-free walk
An hour in the woods or a park, phones silenced at the bottom of a backpack. Whoever spots something unusual first picks dinner.
Geocaching
Get a geocaching app and find three hidden caches nearby. A real treasure hunt.
A botanical garden
A walk among the plants with one task: find the plant that has the other’s personality.
An autumn walk with a thermos
Ginger tea in a thermos, chestnuts in your pockets and a walk through the prettiest park around.
An open-air cinema
In summer many cities have outdoor screenings. A blanket, snacks and a film someone else picked.
A shelter dog walk
Many animal shelters welcome people to walk their dogs. An hour with a dog does good for the dog and for you.
A question-for-question walk
On a walk, every answer ends with a new question. Whoever hesitates buys the coffee.
First Dates questions
Open the First Dates set and take turns asking. Light, funny and without awkward silences.
🔗 Handy: First DatesTwo truths and a lie
Each of you tells three things about yourself, and one of them is made up. A great way to get to know each other and laugh.
🔗 Handy: Two Truths and a LieA few tips
- Choose something easy to extend and easy to end. A walk and a coffee beat a three-course dinner.
- A task or a game takes the pressure off: the conversation flows around the fun, not around you.
- Prepare a few light questions. The First Dates set has 70, from funny to a little deeper.
Where should you go on a first date?
Somewhere you can talk freely: a café, a market, a park, a museum or a bowling alley. A cinema is harder for a first date, because you have to stay quiet for two hours.
What should you talk about on a first date?
Passions, travel, favourite places and funny stories. Light questions from the First Dates set and a game of Two Truths and a Lie help break the ice.
A date is just the start
In Liskove a game, a question and a small ritual wait for every evening. After the date there is your shared fox, which grows with every moment together.
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