Two truths, one lie

The problem this game always creates

Everyone knows the rule, and everyone gets stuck in the same place: coming up with three statements. Under pressure you fall back on "I have broken a bone" or "I do not like chocolate", and the round dies there.

That is why the most common search is not how to play but "two truths and a lie ideas". People are not looking for the rule, they are looking for examples.

Here you do not have to find any: the game hands you a pool of neutral statements, and you simply pick the two that are true for you plus one that is not. Your opponent guesses, then both sides are revealed.

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It remembers what you have already used

The flaw in idea lists is that by the second round you are recycling the same statements. So the game keeps track of the ones you have already used and drops them from later pools, until the bank - 42 statements - runs out and a new cycle starts.

In practice: two people playing again do not see the same statements twice, and you cannot lean on your favourite lie.

Why the statements come from a bank rather than from you

That is a choice, not a technical limit. A curated bank guarantees two things a free text field cannot:

• Nothing awkward. The statements are neutral and plausible for anyone - no health, no family, no location, nothing that could put someone on the spot in front of a stranger.
• It works across languages. Every statement exists in all six site languages, so a round between an English and an Italian speaker works with no translation.

Same logic as Would You Rather: prepared content rather than free text, which is what makes the game usable with a stranger and not only among friends.

When to bring it out

It is the best second game, rarely the first. Would You Rather takes zero effort and gets the conversation moving; Two truths one lie asks you to say a little about yourself, which works better once the ice is broken.

It plays one-on-one in a match, on webcam or without a camera. For group formats, the impostor game and the drawing game fit better - the full tour is on the games to play on a video call page.

The same game, on a delay, in the Arena

Since September 2026, your two-truths-one-lie card can also wait for the others' guesses for 24 hours, with nobody online at the same time: that's the Arena. Spotting the lie earns 2 Plox and 5 points, and every person fooled earns the author 2.

Deal your 3 statements

All 42 statements in the bank

1. I've broken a bone.
2. I can whistle with my fingers.
3. I've eaten an insect.
4. I can touch my nose with my tongue.
5. I've had a giggle fit in class.
6. I know a whole song by heart.
7. I've won a contest.
8. I hate chocolate.
9. I've met a famous person.
10. I can ride a bike no-handed.
11. I've slept under the stars.
12. I speak more than two languages.
13. I'm terrified of spiders.
14. I've been on a long road trip.
15. I can cook a full meal on my own.
16. I've had a pet.
17. I can balance on one leg with my eyes closed.
18. I've forgotten my own birthday.
19. I collect something.
20. I've cried at a cartoon.
21. I can juggle three balls.
22. I've missed a bus right in front of me.
23. I can imitate at least one famous voice.
24. I've camped in the rain.
25. I prefer winter to summer.
26. I've cracked a phone screen.
27. I can swim with my eyes open underwater.
28. I've had a dream so real I believed it when I woke up.
29. I can say the alphabet backwards.
30. I've eaten a whole pizza by myself.
31. I've been scared in a haunted house ride.
32. I can do a cartwheel.
33. I've sung in front of people.
34. I hate cilantro.
35. I've found money on the ground.
36. I can stand on a skateboard.
37. I've watched a whole series in one night.
38. I can tie a tie.
39. I've come first in a game or sport.
40. I've had hiccups for a really long time.
41. I can wiggle my ears.
42. I've burst out laughing at the worst moment.

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