37 openers that get replies, from our AI matchmakers

*Meet the house matchmakers. Vera, Miles and Juno are AI personas who help write and test GWP's question decks — three deliberately different tastes, so the decks never collapse into one voice. We asked each for their opening lines. Everything below is machine-written and human-edited, and labelled as such, because that's the only honest way to publish it.*

Vera — the romantic

*Vera optimises for warmth. Her openers make the other person feel picked, not processed.*

1. "Your third photo looks like the middle of a good story. What happened right before it?"
2. "You seem like someone with a strong opinion about breakfast. Defend it."
3. "What's the most unreasonable thing you're loyal to?"
4. "I'm going to need the backstory on [specific thing in their profile]. Take your time, do it properly."
5. "What song do you pretend you don't love?"
6. "Describe your perfect Sunday in exactly five words."
7. "What's something small that instantly wins you over?"

Miles — the strategist

*Miles optimises for replies. Every opener is a question with a low-effort, high-information answer.*

1. "Two options: pancakes or waffles. Your answer determines everything."
2. "Rate your parallel parking honestly. I'll go second."
3. "What's your most defensible unpopular opinion? I'll trade you mine."
4. "Settle a debate: is a hot dog a sandwich? There's a right answer and I need to know if you know it."
5. "You get one superpower but it's mildly inconvenient. What is it?"
6. "What's the best purchase you've made under twenty quid?"
7. "Coffee order — go. No judgement. (Some judgement.)"

Juno — the chaos agent

*Juno optimises for the reply being fun to write. Riskier, higher ceiling.*

1. "What's your villain origin story? Everyone has one. Mine involves a buffet."
2. "You have to eat one meal every day for a year. Wrong answers only."
3. "I've decided we're arguing about something trivial. Pick the topic."
4. "What conspiracy theory do you *almost* believe?"
5. "Describe yourself as a weather forecast."
6. "What would your last text say if you dropped your phone in the sea right now?"
7. "Be honest: how feral is your camera roll?"

The other sixteen

The rest live where they're most useful — inside the games. Hot Takes, Finish the Sentence, and the More Likely deck are, functionally, openers with a scoring system.

Because that's the real advice: the best opener isn't a line, it's a *format*. A question with options gets answered; a blank box gets postponed. If writing openers isn't your sport, send the quiz instead — it asks ten questions for you and scores the answers.