Is there an official Rice Purity Test?

No. Rice University never administered it, and no first edition with a date on it has surfaced. What circulates is a set of copies of copies, which is why they disagree in small ways.

Why do some sites show a question mark as item 69?

Because the sheet they copied censored that item, and the censorship was copied along with everything else. The number is also the joke, which is why people search for question 69 by its number.

Can I reuse this list?

Yes. The questionnaire is a long-standing campus tradition and not ours to license. Our reconciliation, the per-question pages and the site copy are our work — a link back is the only thing we ask.

Which Rice Purity Test list is canonical?

There is no authoritative edition to check against, so we did the next best thing: took four live copies of the 100-question list, compared them item by item, and published what they agree on. They agree on 94 items verbatim. The six they disagree about are below, with what we chose and why.

The four sources

Fetched on 3 September 2026 and parsed from each page’s own markup. Two other sites were excluded: one publishes a softened rewrite rather than the traditional list, and one loads its questions after the page renders, so there was nothing to read.

The four sites the canonical list was reconciled from.
Source	Extracted from	Note
ricepuritytestlab.com	100 label elements	Clean 100. Prints item 69 in full.
ricepuritytest.com	101 label elements	The first is the site's own Instagram promo, not a question. Prints item 69 as a bare question mark.
rice-purity-test.com	inline JSON, items 1–101	Same promo in first position. Otherwise matches the majority wording.
yourricepuritytest.com	100 label elements	Numeric prefixes stripped. Shortens two items.

The six items they disagree about

Item 25chose: the capitalised gloss
"…by a MPS (Member of Preferred Sex)?" vs "…(member of the preferred sex)?" vs "…by a MPS?"
Three of four copies carry the gloss, and it is the first appearance of the abbreviation.
Item 26chose: the bare abbreviation
"Showered with a MPS?" vs the same with the gloss repeated
Two–two split. The gloss is already given at 25, and the original sheet does not repeat it.
Item 41chose: the bare abbreviation
"Spent the night with a MPS?" vs the glossed form
Same split, same reasoning as 26.
Item 69chose: "Have you ever done a 69?"
"Have you ever done a 69?" vs "Done a 69?" vs a bare "?"
Two copies print it in full, one shortens it, one censors it. A site that hides the item cannot be read as disagreeing about its content.
Item 79chose: without the article
"with non-participating third party" vs "with a non-participating third party"
Three of four.
Item 81chose: "whom"
"a partner whom you were not…" vs "a partner you were not…"
Three of four.

What the agreed list contains

Counted from the 100 statements as published here. The imbalance is the single most useful fact about the test: it is mostly a sexual-experience count, whatever its name suggests.

60Sexual experience
13Romance & dating
8Law & consequences
7Alcohol & drugs
5Parties & nightlife
4Rule-breaking & mischief
3Online & modern life

Read them in order on the questions page, see what a total implies on the score pages, or take the test.

Citing this

The questionnaire is a campus tradition and not ours to license. The reconciliation on this page is ours, and it is free to quote with a link. If you find a fifth copy that disagrees with something here, we would rather hear about it than be right: [email protected].