The questions
Each side comes with one line of the case for it. The rest is up to you.
Should the bedroom window be open at night?
- YEA WINDOW OPEN
Cool fresh air is the best sleep aid there is, and it's free.
- NAY WINDOW SHUT
An open window lets in the 5 a.m. garbage truck and every mosquito.
- YEA WINDOW OPEN
Should you wear socks in bed?
- YEA SOCKS ON
Cold feet keep you awake, and warm socks fix that in ten seconds.
- NAY BARE FEET
Socks end up twisted, then lost somewhere under the covers by morning.
- YEA SOCKS ON
Is hitting snooze a treat or a trap?
- TREAT
Nine more minutes under a warm blanket is the best part of the day.
- TRAP
You wake up three times instead of once and feel worse every time.
- TREAT
Should grown-ups take afternoon naps?
- YEA NAP TIME
Twenty minutes on the couch and you're a nicer person until dinner.
- NAY PUSH THROUGH
A nap at 3 p.m. means staring at the ceiling at 1 a.m.
- YEA NAP TIME
Should you fall asleep with the TV on?
- YEA TV ON
A show you've seen ten times quiets your head better than any app.
- NAY TOTAL SILENCE
You doze off at a quiet scene and wake at 2 a.m. to a shouting ad.
- YEA TV ON
Is one pillow enough?
- YEA ONE PILLOW
One good pillow does the job, and the rest end up on the floor.
- NAY PILE THEM UP
One under your head, one to hug, one for your knees: it's a system.
- YEA ONE PILLOW
Should you wake up someone who's snoring?
- YEA WAKE THEM
They'll be back asleep in a minute, and you'll get to sleep at all.
- NAY LET THEM SNORE
Waking them buys five quiet minutes before the snoring starts again.
- YEA WAKE THEM
Is it better to be a morning person or a night owl?
- MORNING PERSON
The world is quiet at 6 a.m., and your work is done before lunch.
- NIGHT OWL
The best ideas and the best conversations show up after midnight.
- MORNING PERSON
About the host
Gary is a sloth. He agreed to host this week during one of his ten minutes awake, and nobody has been able to reach him since. He wrote all eight questions lying down. It took most of September.
He's hosting the first week of October because the nights are getting longer, which he takes as the world finally coming around to his point of view. His questions are about sleep, where everyone thinks their own habits are normal and everyone else's are a crime. Socks in bed. The TV left on all night. Gary has a view on each one, and he'll share it after a short rest.
How to play these
These are the arguments people have with whoever sleeps on the other side of the bed, so go easy if there are couples at the table. The window and snoring questions turn into testimony fast: who stole the blanket, who said what at 3 a.m. Let it happen. That's the good part.
As a round of The Lobbyist, sleep is easy ground for the liar, because nobody can check what you really do at night. A night owl can argue for 6 a.m. alarms and sound believable. So listen for details. Someone who really falls asleep to the TV can name the show. Someone faking it says "a show." For more questions that start fights at home, see these debate questions for couples.
About guest decks
Snooze Or Lose is Gary the sloth's guest deck for The Lobbyist, free to play from Oct 2 to Oct 8, 2026. A new guest moves in every Friday with eight questions of their own. See this week's guest.
The guest before: Pet Peeves, hosted by Duchess Fluffington.
The guest after: Elementary, hosted by Sherlock Holmes.
Play the guest deck
Start a game and pick this week's guest deck, or Fuzzy Logic. Both are free.
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