Two Truths and a Lie

What is: Two Truths and a Lie​

The game Two Truths and a Lie is a great party game for teenagers and can also be a good icebreaker in meetings, classes or other situations where you need to make introductions.
These are easy to modify to make them true (or not true) for yourself. For information on how to play the game, this next section will help.

How to play: Two Truths and a Lie
This game is also called Two Truths, One Lie or Two Truths and One Not. It extremely easy to play and doesn't need any equipment or supplies, only your imagination.
You can play with any number of people. Here's how it works:
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• Each person in the group gets a turn.​
• When it is your turn, tell the group two things about yourself that are true and one thing that is untrue (this is your lie).​
• Try not to tell both of your truths first and then the lie because that makes it easier to guess (see below for some more game strategies).​
• Mix the order up each time it is your turn. Alternate between truth-truth-lie, truth-lie-truth and lie-truth-truth.​
• Everyone in the group has an opportunity to try to guess which statement was the lie.​
• Once everyone has guessed, the person will reveal what was true and what was false.​
• If only one person was correct, that person can go next. Or, the person sitting closest to the last person can go next.​
• This can go around as many times as you would like or just so everyone gets the chance to go once.​

Some Strategies and Suggestions
This game isn't any fun if you make it completely obvious which statement is a lie and which statements are true. Here are some ways to avoid doing that.

Strategy #1
Make two boring or average statements. One of them should be the lie. Your true statement should be something radical or surprising. If you do this, chances are that your friends will suspect the outrageous fact is the lie.

Strategy #2
Make two surprising or uncommon statements — one of them should be true and the other should be a lie. Your second truth can be a common statement. This will prompt your friends to pick one of the surprising statements as the lie, but which one? It could possibly stump them.

Strategy #3
Make your two true statements unbelievable, if you can. This lets you make the lie very believable. Your friends will assume that the two wild statements can't both be true and pick one of them as a lie.


You don't have to say them in this order. In fact, you shouldn't say your lie last.

An Example Video
Below is an example of the girls from the television show Pretty Little Liars playing the game.


Brainstorming Ideas
Sometimes it's hard to keep coming up with ideas if you play this game for a while. Here are a few questions for you to think about that will help you think of new ideas:
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• Do you have any special talents that people don't know about?​
• Are there any things you wish were true about yourself but aren't?​
• What is your favorite subject in school? Or your favorite anything?​
• Are you known for something like sports that would make it not seem obvious that you liked something else like poetry?​
• How many siblings do you have and how many of each?​
• What is something you have never done but that most people have?​
• What are some things you have accomplished?​
• What do you want to be when you grow up?​
• What do you own or not own?​

More Examples
Below is what I might say if I was playing the game. Which one do you think is the lie?
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• I have a dog that cost over $1000.​
• I am 24 years old and have been married three times.​
• I own my own home.​

If you guessed that the lie is: "I own my own home," you would be correct! Congratulations! In this example, I made my lie a little boring and the truths a little unbelievable.

Let's try another example:
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• I am going to school for nursing.​
• I have one brother and one sister.​
• I got my first job when I was 15.​

Which one would you guess here? The lie is that I have a brother and a sister. In this example, I tried to make two boring statements with one of them being the lie.

If you think you have it down, Let's begin!
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1. I got my first medal when I was 4​
2. I have no brothers, but 3 step brothers.​
3. I have never been on a fortune wheel.​

E: Slight rule change.
21:41 - Dex: in order to speed things up
21:41 - Dex: i'd say
21:42 - Dex: have people vote the answer that was right as "friendly/agree"
21:42 - Dex: essentially it's not ratewhoring
21:42 - Dex: it's just a game
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1. was the lie.
I haven't drank a coke in the last two years.
I've broken my left leg once.
I used to puke whenever I ate a PB&J Sandwich

 

2
when i was 5 i smashed my nose on the concrete steps outside of my school a week before picture day
i hate hot dogs
i have 3 siblings

 

3
I have once obtained 3 can openers in the same run on dayZ standalone
I own over 70 games but haven't played 30% of them
I have done a speedrun on terraria and defeated the wall of flesh in hardmode under 1 hour

Also slight rule change, guys.
21:41 - Dex: in order to speed things up
21:41 - Dex: i'd say
21:42 - Dex: have people vote the answer that was right as "friendly/agree"
21:42 - Dex: essentially it's not ratewhoring
21:42 - Dex: it's just a game

 

3 - You didn't defeat the wall of flesh in under 1 hour
I own over 300 games on steam.
I once (So said the leaderboard) held the fastest speedrun time on Resident Evil 5 when I played co-op with my dad for lulzies.
I'm currently running through X-Com 2 and havn't lost a single team member.

Edit - Correct, though it is possible to not lose a single team member; currently the only members I've lost were the two you automatically lose at the start of the game via the tutorial. If you don't play the tutorial, you don't lose them. (But you also don't get to start off with a member with a rank up.)

 

3, everyone loses a team member in their first go's of XCOM.
I can juggle four balls at once.
I wrote a book which was pretty trash.
I was voted most likely to be caught falling asleep at my Secondary (High School) prom awards.

 

3, no one is voted most likely to fall asleep.

1. I hate hamburgers
2. Although I'm Jewish I have a friend who is basically a neo Nazi
3. I have 3 dogs (Yorkie, golden doodle, golden retriever)

 

1, no real man can't enjoy a good burg.
1. I fell off a cliff on my fifth grade field trip.
2. I've never lost a fight.
3. I know every news article in Neo Scavenger by heart.

 

2. That's edgy, dude.

1. I'm changing gamemode from my server from HL2RP to underdone
2. I own around 6 plushies and 1 bubblehead
3. I own around 1k ARS (Argentina's Currency), but never actually use it other than to pay games

 

2, because god forbid

1. I've been tased.
2. I've been arrested.
3. I've had a decent conversation with a US senator.

 

3, usually when you get tased you get arrested.
1. I had a one point 100+ followers on twitter.
2. I have beat Castle Crashers 3 times.
3. I have the "Heyy, that's pretty good." Chrome extension.

 

1 you dont even twitter

I'm level 60 in WoW, but stopped playing because i got bored
I was part of a CoD MW3 Pro Team.
I love my life.

 

2. Dear god, i really do hope so thats a lie.

1. I was a brony at one point.
2. I played DayZ for 2 years at 13 fps.
3. My favourite RP gamemode is Hl2RP.

 

1. Why

1. I own a convertible.
2. I still have my original first bought Sega Megadrive
3. I've bought several xbox 360's because they kept dying.

Edit - Lol Aflac
Edit 2 - I do indeed own a convertible

 

1 who the fuck owns a convertible

1. I'm currently in film class
2. I shoot regularly
3. I used my Make A Wish on a trip to Washington DC

 

3. Why would you "Make-A-Wish" ? (I am not up to date, please dont tell me you are going to die.)

1. I had 2 screws in my feet at one point.
2. I am attempting to get a gun license in Austria.
3. I went one year to a school to become a nursery teacher.

Edit:
OH JESUS CHRIST, TIMMY JUST TOLD ME, Now i feel like a dick.
I still dont think you went to Washington with it.

 

Cancer.

OT:
3, i believe you need more years

1-I once was in a Battlefield 4 pro-team, but never got to play an operation with them.
2-I'm pretty good with PAC3, I'm making alot of creations with it.
3-I usually can't sleep because I live near a theater, and almost every week a band comes to play music.

 

1

1.I have every operator in R6S.
2.My monitor is only 1600x900
3.I make really shitty poses in GMOD in my spare time.