Couples Questions Game

A Couples Questions Game That Actually Teaches You Something

You think you know your partner. Smush finds the gaps. Heat Check scores your alignment. Trivia tests what you've been paying attention to. Both sting a little when you're wrong.

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Heat Check Compatibility

Both answer the same questions separately, then get a compatibility score with a full breakdown. The numbers tell you things conversation alone won't.

Trivia Competition

Answer questions about each other and compete for points. It sounds simple until you realize you don't know their childhood best friend's name or what they'd order as a last meal.

Truth Prompts That Escalate

Truth or Dare's truth cards start easy and get progressively more personal. The spice level controls how far the questions go, from playful to things you've genuinely never discussed.

Heat Check: A Score for Your Alignment

Compatibility isn't binary. You agree on some things, diverge on others, and assume alignment on more than you should. Heat Check puts numbers on it. Both partners answer the same question pack separately. The app scores your overlap and shows a breakdown of where you matched, where you differed, and where the gap was wider than expected. It's not a pass/fail test. It's a map. After fifteen years together, my wife and I tried a round on intimacy preferences. We scored 72 percent. The 28 percent we missed wasn't a problem. It was a list of things we'd never gotten around to saying.

Frequently Asked Questions

It depends on the game. Heat Check covers preferences, values, and desires. Trivia asks factual questions about your partner's life. Truth or Dare prompts go from lighthearted confessions to things that take genuine courage to answer.

Both partners answer the same set of questions independently. The app calculates your alignment percentage and shows a card-by-card breakdown of where you agreed, where you diverged, and by how much.

Heat Check, Trivia, and Truth or Dare all work in real-time sessions from separate locations. Both partners need Smush installed.

No. The question packs are written for couples who are past the surface. Even mild-level questions get specific enough that you'll learn something. Higher levels go into territory most people avoid entirely.

Trivia is head-to-head. You both answer questions about each other, score points for correct answers, and one of you wins. Losing is surprisingly motivating.

Skip it. Every game lets you pass on any card without penalty. The goal is to find the questions that open something up, not to push through ones that shut things down.

The deck is large enough that repeat sessions surface mostly new material. Content updates add fresh question packs regularly.

Start with Trivia on mild. It's fun, low-stakes, and shows you immediately how well you've been paying attention. Heat Check is better once you're ready for something more revealing.

Most question rounds run 10 to 20 minutes depending on the pack size and how much you talk between cards. Some couples blow through them. Others pause on every third question for a 30-minute tangent.

Past results are stored locally on your device so you can track how your alignment shifts. Running the same pack six months apart can be genuinely surprising.

Questions are three of ten games. The rest are dares, role-play, missions, fantasy swiping, and a few mechanics that are harder to categorize. The questions tend to be what people start with.

Mild spice level works from date three onward. The questions get personal, but they're the kind of personal that accelerates getting to know someone rather than pushing too far too fast.

Structure and scoring. A blog post gives you 50 questions in a list and no way to use the answers. Smush scores your alignment, tracks your history, and builds the pacing into the game so you don't have to manage the conversation yourself.

Together-mode games work on one device. Long-distance sessions need both partners on their own phones.

Free on the App Store and Google Play. Search "Smush" or tap the download links on this page.

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