Two Truths and a Lie for the Classroom

Q: Can I print the starters?

Yes. When a round ends, Print these prints the cards of the set you chose as slips to cut apart. Each student draws three and writes the endings on the back.

Deal three starters, fill two blanks with the truth and one with a lie, and let the class vote.

Two truths and a lie about the food chain.

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How it works

This two truths and a lie classroom game gives each student a sentence to finish, so nobody is stuck for an idea. The starters cover after school, food, animals, things they can do and places they have been.

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One student, three statements, a show of fingers

Press Next card three times and write the starters on the board. A student fills two blanks with the truth and one with a lie, then reads all three. The class votes with one, two or three fingers, and the student reveals the lie.

Turn it into a lesson review

Before the first card, press Topic and pick Lesson review. Each card names a kind of topic, such as Two truths and a lie about the water cycle; swap in your own. Groups write two true facts and one false one for another group to catch.

Tips

Let students write their three first; reading from paper hides the pause before the lie.
Any student may swap a starter: press Next card and nobody asks why.

Questions and answers

How do you play two truths and a lie with a class?

Each student makes three statements about themselves: two true and one untrue. The others try to pick the falsehood, then the speaker reveals it. With a large class, play in tables of five so that everyone has a turn.

Do the starters ask for anything private?

No. No card asks about family, money, health or faith, and none asks for a pet's name, a street or a teacher's name, the answers that accounts use as security questions.

Can I print the starters?

Yes. When a round ends, Print these prints the cards of the set you chose as slips to cut apart. Each student draws three and writes the endings on the back.

All 138 starters

After school and weekends 20

A show I could watch all day is about ___.
After school I usually ___.
The best thing I ever built from a box was ___.
The game I play most is ___.
I am in the middle of a story about ___.
I am learning how to ___.
I earned a badge for ___.
I go to ___ practice every week.
I have a club with my friends, and we ___.
I have a collection of ___.
I have been in a parade dressed as ___.
I have camped out in ___.
I have performed ___ in front of a crowd.
I once found ___ on a walk and still have it.
The last thing I built was ___.
The longest I have ever ridden my bike is ___.
The longest thing I ever read was ___ pages.
My name was once called out for ___.
On Saturdays I like to ___.
Outside, the first thing I run to is ___.

Food 20

A food I have never tried is ___.
A fruit I have picked right off the plant is ___.
For breakfast today I had ___.
The green thing I always finish first is ___.
I always ask for ___ on my pizza.
I can make ___ all by myself.
I have eaten ___ on a stick.
I have eaten a food that is the color ___.
I have helped bake ___.
I have tasted ___ from another country.
I once ate ___ slices of pizza at one party.
I once ate dinner at ___ in the morning.
I once flipped a ___ in a pan without dropping it.
I once grew ___ and then ate it.
I once tried ___ and did not like it at all.
My after-school snack is ___.
My favorite thing in my lunch is ___.
The oddest flavor I have licked off a cone is ___.
The sourest thing I have ever tasted was ___.
The strangest thing I have put on a sandwich is ___.

Animals 20

A ___ once followed me all the way home.
A ___ once took food right out of my hand.
A bird I can name by its song is ___.
An animal I have fed by hand is ___.
An animal I have held is ___.
An animal that scares me a little is ___.
The animal I can draw best is ___.
The bug I see most near my home is ___.
I can make the sound of a ___ so well it fools people.
I have petted a ___ at a farm.
I have ridden on a ___.
I have seen ___ at an aquarium.
I have seen a ___ carry its baby.
I have touched a ___ at a tide pool.
I have watched a ___ hatch or be born.
I once found a ___ in my shoe.
I once had a ___ land on me.
I once helped rescue a ___.
I once saw a ___ in the wild.
The tallest animal that ever stood next to me was ___.

Things I can do 20

I can ___ without using my hands.
I can balance a ___ on my head while I walk.
I can count by ___ all the way to one hundred.
I can do ___ jumping jacks without stopping.
I can draw a really good ___.
I can fold paper into a ___.
I can hop on one foot ___ times.
I can juggle ___ things at once.
I can list the months backward in ___ seconds.
I can name ___ kinds of dinosaur.
I can ride a ___.
I can skip a rope ___ times in a row.
I can solve a ___ in under a minute.
I can spell ___ without looking.
I can stack ___ blocks before they fall.
I can swing across ___ rungs without dropping.
I can tap out the beat of ___ on a table.
I can whistle with ___.
I can write my name in ___.
I know the word for thank you in ___ languages.

Places I have been 20

A museum I have been to had ___ in it.
A place I visit every summer is ___.
The best playground I know is at ___.
The coldest place I have been is ___.
The deepest water I have swum in was at ___.
The farthest I have been from school is ___.
I have been inside a ___.
I have been on a boat on ___.
I have been somewhere with no ___ at all.
I have been to the top of ___.
I have crossed a bridge over ___.
I have ridden a ___ to get somewhere.
I have seen ___ from an airplane window.
I have slept in a ___.
I have stood in two ___ at the same time.
I have visited a place where people speak ___.
I have walked through a ___ that was underground.
I have watched a ___ game from the stands.
I once got lost in a ___ for a few minutes.
The tallest thing I have ever climbed is ___.

Lie builders for the class 16

Lie builder: choose a lie that is boring. Boring sounds true.
Lie builder: claim a team you only cheer for as one you are on.
Lie builder: if the class asks a question, answer the truths just as slowly.
Lie builder: keep your true story and trade the food in it for another one.
Lie builder: look at the same spot on the wall for all three.
Lie builder: make the number a little bigger or smaller. Not a lot.
Lie builder: pick two truths that sound made up, so the lie hides between them.
Lie builder: practice your lie once in your head before your turn.
Lie builder: put the lie in the middle. Most classes guess the last one.
Lie builder: say a friend's true story as yours. Ask the friend first.
Lie builder: say all three in the same voice. No giggling on the lie.
Lie builder: take a true thing you did once and say you do it every week.
Lie builder: tell a true story and switch the season it happened in.
Lie builder: tell about a place on a map you have looked at but never visited.
Lie builder: use something from a book you read as if it happened to you.
Lie builder: write your three down, then read them. Reading hides the pause.

Lesson review 22

Two truths and a lie about a character in our book.
Two truths and a lie about a map of our town.
Two truths and a lie about a person from history we studied.
Two truths and a lie about a rule of grammar.
Two truths and a lie about a shape and its sides.
Two truths and a lie about an animal's habitat.
Two truths and a lie about an invention and who made it.
Two truths and a lie about fractions.
Two truths and a lie about measuring with a ruler.
Two truths and a lie about multiplying by nine.
Two truths and a lie about our science experiment.
Two truths and a lie about our state.
Two truths and a lie about the author we are reading.
Two truths and a lie about the chapter we just finished.
Two truths and a lie about the food chain.
Two truths and a lie about the parts of a plant.
Two truths and a lie about the planet we studied.
Two truths and a lie about the setting of our story.
Two truths and a lie about the three states of matter.
Two truths and a lie about the water cycle.
Two truths and a lie about this week's spelling words.
Two truths and a lie about yesterday's lesson.

How this list was compiled

Written by the Game Night Generator editors on 2026-09-30; every starter is our own wording and no list was copied from anywhere. A card is a sentence with a blank that a student fills with the truth or with a lie. The Lie builders set holds ways to disguise a lie, and in Lesson review each card names a kind of topic for three statements about schoolwork; the topics are examples for a teacher to swap. The way to play (each participant makes three statements about themselves, two true and one untrue, and the others try to identify the falsehood) follows the Two truths and a lie entry of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icebreaker_%28facilitation%29, read on 2026-09-30. Screen: no card asks about family, money, health or faith, and none asks for an answer that accounts use as a security question, such as a pet's name, a street or a teacher's name. Levels are an editor's estimate of the grade band: easy suits the early grades, medium needs a particular memory or a fact from class, and hard is rare or asks for careful wording. Compared by script on 2026-09-30 with every other list on this site: no starter is repeated. Licence: own work