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The Black Mirror Dinner

A night of impossible questions. Would you clone yourself? Upload your mind? Take a pill that guarantees success but removes the ability to fall in love? Best deployed after the second glass, when the table stops hedging and starts actually answering.

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PurposeUse impossible scenarios to surface real values — people reveal more through hypotheticals than through direct questi…
VoteAfter each scenario: show of hands, then the minority position explains itself to the table.
RevealThe host’s final scenario — the one held back until the end because it’s the most destabilizing.
Run of show

What it's for

Use impossible scenarios to surface real values — people reveal more through hypotheticals than through direct questions.

The guest's job

Answer the question seriously; no "it depends" hedging allowed once the second drink has arrived.

The vote

After each scenario: show of hands, then the minority position explains itself to the table.

The reveal

The host’s final scenario — the one held back until the end because it’s the most destabilizing.

Food & drink spine

A relaxed dinner that doesn’t demand attention; the questions are the whole menu.

Conversation fuel

"Which answer surprised you about yourself?"

How it flops — steer around it

Questions with easy answers. The best Black Mirror scenarios have no clearly correct position and at least two people in the room who split hard.

A bespoke dinner-party concierge. Vote with conviction; bring something defensible. Themes · Playbook