This is the collection of table topics which I used for my Toastmasters club. Some has been adapted to the local context. Feel free to use them!

1. You are a chef’s assistant at Ritz Carlton. While making champagne moon cakes, you used Newater instead of champagne by mistake. Explain to your chef why he should be glad rather than angry
2. You have been entrusted to order 12 months of Time magazine for your Boss’s young children. But you ordered FHM by mistake. Explain to your Boss why he should be grateful to you instead.
3. You are a kidnapper. You have successfully kidnapped a rich tycoon’s daughter. Upon reaching your hideout, you discovered that the woman is not the rich tycoon’s daughter, but his maid. Explain to your partner why he should be glad.
4. You run a popular dating agency. Due to a computer glitch, two men were arranged to meet for a dinner date instead. Explain to these 2 men why they should be glad that they were having dinner with each other rather than with a girl.
5. You have been turned into a frog by a wicked witch. The only way for you to become a human again is for a man to kiss you. Luckily a man walked past. You told him you’d turn into a beautiful princess if he kissed you. And so he rewarded you with a wet kiss. Poof! There you appear before him. Explain to the man why he should be glad it’s you and not a beautiful princess that appeared.
6. You are a world famous plastic surgeon. Many celebrities come to you for procedures. Michael Jackson has engaged you to do a nose job for him. But due to a mix up, you ended up performing a breast augmentation job on Michael Jackson, and a nose job on Paris Hilton. Imagine the both of them are in your office now. Explain to them why the operations were in retrospect good for them.
7. You are the boatman of a sampan. You have been entrusted to ferry 10 illegal immigrant to Singapore. But you ended up in Pulau Tekong instead. Explain to the illegal immigrants, why they should be glad that they are in Pulau Tekong instead.
8. You are a famous surgeon. But due to bad handwriting, you have wrongly amputed a man’s good leg. Explain to the man why this was better for him.