There was even a British tv show version of the game with Would You Rather …? With Graham Norton (2011) where the host would get various celebrities to make choices. In recent years, it was marketed as a boardgame by the game company Zobmondo and there are a number of Would You Rather websites where one can vote on and submit different choices. In the real world, Would You Rather is a party game where players have to make a choice between two usually unpalatable choices as to which they would rather do. Those who refuse to make the choices or try to leave are killed.

As the game begins, Lambrick escalates the odds – asking them to make choices between severely hurting, mutilating and killing others at the table or receiving similar punishments themselves. Over dinner, Lambrick offers them substantial bets as to whether they would violate their principles – the vegetarian Iris to eat meat, the recovering alcoholic Conway to drink a decanter of whiskey. She is taken to Lambrick’s mansion where she meets the seven other contestants who are all in similar straits. After she fails to get her latest job, Iris decides to accept the offer. All that he asks is that she attend a dinner party and afterwards play a game.

Her doctor introduces her to wealthy Shepard Lambrick who offers her the opportunity to compete with others for a prize where he will take care of all her bills if she wins. Iris is struggling all on her own to support her younger brother Raleigh who needs a kidney transplant.

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