Anything Goes: 15 things to let fate decide that aren’t dinner

Four of Kismet’s types know what they’re about. The fifth doesn’t, on purpose. Anything Goes asks you for a prompt — “what are we deciding?” — and then everyone answers it with a typed idea, a link, or a photo. Fate picks one of the answers.

It’s the type people find last and then use most. A starting list:

For a group that’s already together

1. “What are we doing for the next two hours?” The Sunday-afternoon killer. Everyone writes one thing. One of them happens.
2. “Best taco in town — settle it.” The prompt Kismet ships as its example, because arguments about a specific superlative never resolve on their own.
3. “What’s the group watching that nobody has seen?” Movie Night handles films; this handles “actually, hear me out, it’s a documentary about competitive sheepdogs.”
4. “Which board game, and no complaining.” The no-complaining clause is load-bearing and, conveniently, enforced by the app.
5. “Pick a genre for the aux.” The lowest-stakes way to end the longest-running argument in any car.

For a group that’s planning something

6. “Theme for the party.” Submissions as links to reference photos. Chaos, but curated chaos.
7. “What are we cooking Sunday?” Recipe links go in, one comes out, someone shops.
8. “Which of us plans the next one?” Yes, you can put people in the pool. Yes, you should submit yourself.
9. “Where’s the holiday photo happening?” Photo submissions of locations. The reveal doubles as a mood board.
10. “What’s the group’s next dumb goal?” Half-marathon, sourdough, learning to unicycle. Fate is a superb committer.

For two people

11. “Who picks tonight?” The purest form. Two entries, one draw, no resentment.
12. “What are we doing with a free Saturday?” Each writes three-word answers. One happens.
13. “Which thing on the list have we been putting off?” Ruthless and weirdly effective.

For the office

14. “Where’s the team lunch?” Restaurant type is better if it’s a real venue; Anything Goes is better when “someone’s cooking” is a legitimate answer.
15. “What are we naming it?” Everyone submits one name, hidden. No anchoring on whoever spoke first — which is the entire reason naming meetings go badly.

Two things worth knowing

The prompt is required. Anything Goes without a question is just a pool of unrelated nouns, so Kismet insists you write one before anyone can submit.

A typed idea is stored exactly as typed. No autocorrect into something official, no matching against a database. If you wrote “Dave’s weird cabin,” the winner is Dave’s weird cabin, and Dave knows what that means.