99 Fun Two Truths and a Lie Game Examples & Ideas

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Ever been to a work function, only to be desperately bored? It happens. You know very little about your colleagues, and bonding at the company retreat can be equally challenging – unless you find a great way to have fun, get to know each other and josh while you’re at it. 

Enter Two Truths and a Lie… the ultimate group game all about getting to know someone better and lying through your teeth.

What Is The Game of Two Truths and a Lie?

For those who have never played, it’s a game where you make three believable statements, one of which is a lie. The other players need to figure out which statement is the lie. The goal is to mislead the other players while also focusing on guessing the truth about someone. It quickly teaches you to pay attention, read body language, and go with your gut feeling. 

Sounds simple, right?

It’s not. At least not if you want to play to win. The deception lies in hiding the lie so it seems plausible and could possibly be true…while your truths sound almost too far-fetched to be true. You focus on creating doubt in the other players. 

With a game of two truths and a lie, you can practice deception and also build your ability to read people. It makes for great fun when played as a group, can be used as an icebreaker, and can even develop team spirit. 

If you are really devious and a skilled liar and manipulator, you would use your position in your company to create a false bias to win votes and keep people guessing about what is true and what is not. 

Whichever way you paint it, two truths and a lie is a fun game to play, and it brings out your inner creativity as you think up the most plausible lies imaginable. 

99 Two Truths and a Lie Game Examples and Ideas

When playing the two truths and a lie game, you should use categories to help players decide on statements and keep similar statements grouped together. Here are a few examples and ideas we love. You can adjust these statements to better reflect your life, your experiences, and more effectively manipulate the other players. 

Likes and Dislikes 

We each have things we like and things we don’t. By sharing what you like, what you dislike, and what you don’t feel anything about, you can really bowl over people with your answers. 

Knowing yourself gives you the edge to use truthful statements and hide lies better. While you may not necessarily begin filling a notebook with facts about yourself, journaling can help you create great statements. 

1. I like avocado and syrup on toast.
2. My favorite type of date is one that is unplanned.
3. I like hanging out until 3 a.m. when people visit me.  
4. I dislike people who assume they know me.
5. I dislike being forced to attend social gatherings. 
6. My worst personal dislike is when someone brings me a gift and asks me to open it right there while they watch. 
7. I dislike loud music. 
8. I like dancing with new partners.
9. I dislike busy places where I will run into people I know. 

Skills

While you have acquired a range of skills, chances are your colleagues and friends don’t know what all those skills are. They may be astonished to learn about a hidden skill or talent you have that they know nothing about, or they may doubt whether you are lying. 

The people in your life can use this as an opportunity to discover just how much potential you really have. 

10. I can juggle six knives at one time. 
11. My first childhood poem was published in an award-winning book. 
12. I can rotate my head 270 degrees. 
13. My talents include baking and dressmaking. 
14. I can type 145 words a minute. 
15. My grandfather taught me to yodel. 
16. I can’t tie my own shoelaces. 
17. While I can eat with my eyes closed, I can’t slice bread evenly. 
18. I can speak three languages fluently. 

Experiences 

Each of us has a range of experiences we have had during our lives, and most people don’t know that we’ve collected these memories. Our own family may be surprised by the quirky and strange experiences we’ve had, and our colleagues and friends may be utterly clueless. 

From meeting celebrities to winning races, or seeing a ghost, your experiences are a great way to play this game. You can paint yourself as the warrior or the villain, and see which version your friends believe. 

19. I once saw someone jump from the Chrysler building.
20. My high school English teacher once told me that I would become gay.
21. I have traveled through five countries outside the U.S.
22. The longest I’ve ever gone without eating is five days.
23. I met the Dalai Lama at a conference in Las Vegas once. 
24. I kissed my first date at the age of nine. 
25. I attended a foreign school in high school. 
26. I had a wisdom tooth removed without anesthesia by my dentist. 
27. I saved my grandfather when he accidentally cut his femoral artery on the mountain on his farm. 

Childhood

There is so much you can tell someone about your childhood, and often, they won’t know what to believe or what is made up. Some classic movies portray this magical time so well, and you can draw on these for the lies you create. 

28. I was adopted when I was eight years old. 
29. My biological dad disappeared while spying for the army in the Vietnam War. 
30. I had an imaginary friend when I was seven years old.
31. My childhood was spent helping my mom raise my brothers and sisters.
32. I never had a toy as a child because we were too poor.
33. I was a regular childhood extra on movie sets until I turned 12 years old. 
34. I met Michael Jackson as a child. 
35. My mom used to dress me like a girl (if you’re a boy) until I turned six years old.
36. When I was three years old, I got lost for a whole day on the beach. 

Wishes and Dreams 

This can be a load of fun, depending on how straight you can keep your face. Making outrageous claims as your wishes or dreams can really have people do a double take and consider what they know about you. Of course, the wilder statements may be best left for a game of two truths and a lie with your closest friends instead of your soon-to-be-shocked colleagues. 

37. When I was in school, I pulled the fire alarm since my dream was to meet a real-life firefighter.
38. I wish to visit the North Pole one day. 
39. My ultimate dream is to one day become a famous poet.
40. I wish I could learn to fly an airplane one day. 
41. When I was little, I dreamed that I was flying, and I woke up and found myself floating under the ceiling. 
42. My wish is to run a marathon in a Licorice Allsorts suit.  
43. My best fantasy is to one day swim with sharks. 
44. I dream of driving a monster truck across my old school’s front lawn. 
45. I wish I could meet the president one day. 

Family 

Facts and lies about your family can really be amusing if you’re with the right crowd. The goal is to have fun, so don’t take this one too seriously. You can also wow people with some little-known facts about your family. 

46. My dad was born on the same day as peace was declared to end World War II.
47. I have a brother who is a hermit and never leaves his house. 
48. I’m actually not an only child—my twin sister vanished on our sixteenth birthday.
49. My family loves hiking on weekends. 
50. My mom is a Nobel Prize winner. 
51. When I was three years old, my family escaped from a cult they had been part of. 
52. Our dogs and cats are all from shelters and they are part of our family.
53. My family has 46 living family members, and 12 of them were born as twins.
54. I am an orphan, so I don’t attend family gatherings.  

Friends 

When your friends are present while playing the game, this can be a really humorous and exciting topic to cover. It involves a bit of team work to keep your friends on track to outwit the newer members of the group. 

55. I had an imaginary friend called Fred, and my husband’s name is Fred. 
56. When I was in school, I had no friends at all until college.
57. Two of my friends are alcoholics. 
58. I have 600 friends on Facebook. 
59. One of my Facebook friends is actually Bruce Willis, though he uses a pseudonym. 
60. I met my best friend in an online chatroom. 
61. My high school enemy became my best friend in college. 
62. I accidentally drove into my friends’ living room one evening. 
63. My best friend died in a car crash. 

Food

Food statements can have people hanging on your every word as you artfully scatter truths and lies. 

64. I’m lactose intolerant, so my mom kept a pet goat to nurse me as a baby.
65. I’m addicted to almonds, but eating too many makes me sick with cyanide poisoning. 
66. My fridge is never without a six pack of beer. 
67. I’ve become vegetarian to attend the new church I like. 
68. I once ate a week-old hamburger as a student at college. 
69. I am allergic to eggs. 
70. I eat pasta three times a week. 
71. I don’t drink any coffee or tea. 
72. My favorite condiment is Tabasco sauce. 

Sports 

Another great conversation starter is to talk about your favorite and worst sports. 

73. I love watching underwater polo. 
74. My favorite sport is table tennis. 
75. I hate watching basketball. 
76. My favorite sport is mud wrestling. 
77. I once participated in a crowd battle for WWE. 
78. I used to do streetcar racing as a teenager. 
79. I broke my arm while playing beach volleyball. 
80. My dad was a famous jockey in the 1960s. 
81. I have a nine handicap in golf.

Fears

Admitting to fears can cause the game players to lose focus and can win you bets. It’s sneaky, and oh so glorious to play on people’s own fears to bowl them over. 

82. I am terrified of spiders. 
83. My dad let our dog bite me as a kid so I am terrified of dogs now.
84. My sister is afraid of heights, so she always wanted the bottom bunk bed when we were kids.
85. I am afraid of meeting new people.
86. I struggle to drive because of my fear of getting a speeding ticket. 
87. I am afraid of brushing my teeth because I swallowed a tooth as a kid.
88. I have claustrophobia and can’t use the public toilet as a result. 
89. I am afraid of my own shadow.
90. As a kid, I was terrified of the drain cover in the shower.

Funny Pranks

Regaling people with funny pranks you’ve pulled can be entertaining and may also challenge their belief of what you tell them. 

91. I once convinced my dad that it was a Sunday morning, and he slept in, arriving late for work as a result. 
92. My mom once dropped a whole chocolate cake because I pasted a rubber spider on the cake lifter. 
93. I managed to put my brother off from eating his McDonalds because I insisted that I saw worms in mine. 
94. I phoned my boss, pretending to be a mental healthcare worker, and I told him that I had been put on mandatory suicide watch for 24 hours so I could go watch the Super Bowl. 
95. I bought a set of cups that have a spider printed inside the cup, and each of my guests has since spewed their coffee as soon as they see the spider. 
96. I once spent 36 hours in an elevator because I phoned the building manager and said I smelled burning wires. 
97. I left a rubber snake halfway out of the toilet at my best friend’s place, and waited outside the building as she called the city exterminators to deal with the problem. 
98. I keep calling the local bar to ask if they know when it’s happy hour—they get very unhappy after the 10th call. 
99. At Christmas parties, I often carry some mistletoe, which I throw at the ladies, yelling “spider.” Once I pick it up, I insist they kiss me. 

Final Thoughts on Two Truths and a Lie

Playing a great social game like Two Truths and a Lie is an ideal opportunity to discover more about people, see their devious side and show yours. It’s a “no harm, no foul” situation, and most players take the game in their stride, enjoying the laughs and the lessons learned. 

If you’ve never played this game before, then adding it to your bucket list is a must. And if you’re jazzed, keeping reading about more great bucket list ideas for Spring.