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Two Truths and a Lie Ideas Funny Enough to Fool the Whole Room

Press Next card three times, then fill two blanks with the truth and one with a lie.

Two Truths and a Lie Ideas Funny Enough to Fool the Whole Room

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Travel and places 16

  • The farthest I have ever been from home is ___.
  • The highest place I have ever stood is ___.
  • I happened to be in ___ on the day of ___.
  • I have crossed ___ by boat.
  • I have lived in ___ different towns.
  • I have never been to ___, even though it is close to where I live.
  • I have ridden a ___ as a real way of getting somewhere.
  • I have spent a whole night in a ___.
  • I have swum in ___.
  • I have visited ___ states or countries.
  • I once got completely lost in ___.
  • I once got on the wrong ___ and ended up in ___.
  • I once missed a ___ because I fell asleep.
  • I once spent an entire trip without my ___.
  • The longest I have ever spent in a car in one day is ___ hours.
  • The strangest place I have ever fallen asleep is ___.

Food and kitchen 15

  • As a kid I refused to eat anything that was ___.
  • The first meal I ever cooked by myself was ___.
  • I can eat ___ of ___ in one sitting.
  • I have cooked a meal for more than ___ people at once.
  • I have grown my own ___.
  • I have never eaten ___.
  • I have never tried ___, and everyone finds that strange.
  • I know how to make ___ from scratch.
  • I once ate ___ every day for a month.
  • I once ate at the same restaurant ___ days in a row.
  • I once ruined dinner by ___.
  • I once won a ___ contest with my ___.
  • I put ___ on my ___, and I stand by it.
  • The most unusual thing I have ever eaten is ___.
  • My go-to midnight snack is ___.

Childhood and school 15

  • As a kid I collected ___.
  • As a kid I refused to leave the house without my ___.
  • I believed ___ until I was embarrassingly old.
  • I broke my ___ when I was ___ years old.
  • I had an imaginary friend named ___.
  • I learned to ride a bike at age ___.
  • I once ran away from home and got as far as ___.
  • I played the ___ in the school band.
  • I still own my childhood ___.
  • I was once sent to the principal's office for ___.
  • I was the ___ champion of my elementary school.
  • I went to ___ different schools before I turned eighteen.
  • In a school play I was cast as ___.
  • In school I won an award for ___.
  • When I was little I wanted to grow up to be a ___.

Jobs and work 16

  • A skill I have that is not on my resume is ___.
  • Before this job, I worked as a ___.
  • The best perk of any job I have had was ___.
  • I have been on a work trip to ___.
  • I have given a presentation to ___ people.
  • I have held ___ different jobs.
  • I have worn a ___ costume for work.
  • I once fell asleep during ___.
  • I once interviewed for a job as a ___.
  • I once sent an email meant for ___ to ___.
  • I once worked a job for only ___ days.
  • I studied ___, which has nothing to do with what I do now.
  • In a past job I once served ___ as a customer.
  • My commute once took ___ hours because of ___.
  • The oddest thing I have ever been paid to do is ___.
  • The strangest thing on my desk right now is ___.

Talents and odd skills 16

  • I am double-jointed in my ___.
  • I can ___ with my eyes closed.
  • I can ___ with my left hand as well as my right.
  • I can juggle ___.
  • I can name every ___.
  • I can play ___ on the ___.
  • I can recite ___ from memory.
  • I can say ___ in ___ languages.
  • I can solve a ___ in under ___ minutes.
  • I can whistle ___.
  • I can wiggle my ___.
  • I have a certificate in ___.
  • I have never learned how to ___.
  • I once came first in a ___ competition.
  • I taught myself how to ___.
  • My personal record for ___ is ___.

Animals and pets 15

  • A ___ once stole my ___.
  • The first animal I ever looked after was a ___.
  • I am scared of ___, and I do not care who knows.
  • I have been bitten by a ___.
  • I have been chased by a ___.
  • I have had ___ pets at the same time.
  • I have held a ___ in my bare hands.
  • I have milked a ___.
  • I have ridden a ___.
  • I have seen a ___ in the wild.
  • I have swum with ___.
  • I named a pet after ___.
  • I once found a ___ inside my house.
  • I once rescued a ___.
  • I once taught a pet to ___.

Mishaps and close calls 16

  • I have a scar from ___.
  • I have broken ___ bones.
  • I have needed stitches ___ times.
  • I once called a teacher ___ by mistake.
  • I once dropped my ___ into a ___.
  • I once fell asleep in ___ and woke up in ___.
  • I once fell off a ___.
  • I once got stuck in a ___ and needed help to get out.
  • I once had to be rescued from ___ by ___.
  • I once locked myself out of ___ for ___ hours.
  • I once lost a ___ and found it ___ years later.
  • I once searched the whole house for my ___ while I was holding it.
  • I once set off a ___ alarm by accident.
  • I once showed up to ___ on the wrong day.
  • I once walked straight into a ___ in front of a crowd.
  • I once waved back at ___, who was waving at somebody else.

Firsts, records and streaks 16

  • The first thing I bought with my own money was ___.
  • The first thing I ever queued overnight or got up early for was ___.
  • I have been in the newspaper for ___.
  • I have climbed ___.
  • I have finished a ___ race.
  • I have never broken a ___.
  • I have never once ___ in my whole life.
  • I have never seen ___, and people keep telling me to.
  • I have read ___ more than ___ times.
  • I have watched ___ more than ___ times.
  • I hold a record for ___ at ___.
  • I once stayed awake for ___ hours straight.
  • I once won ___ in a raffle.
  • I went to ___ weddings in a single year.
  • The longest I have gone without ___ is ___.
  • My longest streak of ___ is ___ days.

Family and home 15

  • At home I am the only one who ___.
  • The chore I did every week growing up was ___.
  • I am related to ___.
  • I am the ___ of ___ children.
  • I have ___ cousins.
  • I have a relative who ___ for a living.
  • I have moved house ___ times.
  • I share a birthday with ___.
  • I shared a bedroom with ___ until I was ___.
  • I was named after ___.
  • My family has a tradition of ___ every year.
  • My grandmother taught me how to ___.
  • The oldest thing in my home is ___.
  • Someone in my family once ___.
  • There is a family recipe for ___ that only ___ knows.

Brushes with fame 15

  • I have a photo of myself with ___.
  • I have an autograph from ___.
  • I have been in the audience at ___.
  • I have been on television for ___.
  • I have performed on stage at ___.
  • I have shaken hands with ___.
  • I once appeared in a ___ as an extra.
  • I once met ___.
  • I once sat next to ___ on a plane or a train.
  • I once stood in line behind ___.
  • I once won a prize from ___.
  • I once wrote a letter to ___ and got a reply.
  • I was once on the radio talking about ___.
  • I went to school with someone who became ___.
  • My photo once appeared in ___.

Funny set 18

  • I am weirdly afraid of ___.
  • I cannot fall asleep unless ___.
  • I have a lucky ___ that I take to ___.
  • I have a secret handshake with ___.
  • I have an irrational dislike of ___.
  • I have given my ___ a name, and the name is ___.
  • I know all the words to ___.
  • I once argued for ten minutes about ___, and I was wrong.
  • I once cried at a movie about ___.
  • I once dressed up as ___ and nobody could guess what I was.
  • I once laughed so hard at ___ that I had to leave the room.
  • I once practiced ___ in the mirror.
  • I once pretended to know all about ___ and got caught.
  • I still do not know how to ___, and by now I am afraid to ask.
  • I talk to my ___ as if it can hear me.
  • In the shower I mostly sing ___.
  • My most useless talent is ___.
  • The strangest thing I own is ___.

Lie builders 17

  • Lie builder: add one exact detail to the lie, such as a weekday, a color or a street.
  • Lie builder: borrow a true story from a brother, sister or friend and tell it as yours.
  • Lie builder: change one number. Three stitches become thirteen.
  • Lie builder: give all three statements the same length and the same flat tone.
  • Lie builder: make a truth sound false by leaving out the detail that explains it.
  • Lie builder: make it dull. A boring lie about breakfast beats a wild one about sharks.
  • Lie builder: move the lie around. First this round, second the next, never always last.
  • Lie builder: name a food you have never tried as your favorite.
  • Lie builder: pick something you nearly did, and say you did it.
  • Lie builder: pick something you would love to do, and say it in the past tense.
  • Lie builder: say you have never done something that everybody has done.
  • Lie builder: shrink a truth. You did visit the tower, but you never climbed it.
  • Lie builder: swap the animal. Say cat where the truth was dog.
  • Lie builder: swap the instrument, the sport or the language. Piano becomes cello.
  • Lie builder: take a hobby you dropped after a week and claim ten years of it.
  • Lie builder: take a true story and change only the year it happened.
  • Lie builder: take a true story and move it to another town or country.

Bible edition 16

  • Bible edition: two true facts and one false one about crossing the Red Sea. Exodus 14.
  • Bible edition: two true facts and one false one about Daniel in the lions' den. Daniel 6.
  • Bible edition: two true facts and one false one about David and Goliath. 1 Samuel 17.
  • Bible edition: two true facts and one false one about Joseph and his coat. Genesis 37.
  • Bible edition: two true facts and one false one about Moses and the burning bush. Exodus 3.
  • Bible edition: two true facts and one false one about Noah's ark. Genesis 6 to 9.
  • Bible edition: two true facts and one false one about Paul on the road to Damascus. Acts 9, told again in Acts 22 and 26.
  • Bible edition: two true facts and one false one about Samson. Judges 13 to 16.
  • Bible edition: two true facts and one false one about the feeding of the five thousand. Matthew 14, Mark 6, Luke 9 and John 6.
  • Bible edition: two true facts and one false one about the fiery furnace. Daniel 3.
  • Bible edition: two true facts and one false one about the Good Samaritan. Luke 10, verses 25 to 37.
  • Bible edition: two true facts and one false one about the plagues of Egypt. Exodus 7 to 12.
  • Bible edition: two true facts and one false one about the prodigal son. Luke 15, verses 11 to 32.
  • Bible edition: two true facts and one false one about the tower of Babel. Genesis 11, verses 1 to 9.
  • Bible edition: two true facts and one false one about the walls of Jericho. Joshua 6.
  • Bible edition: two true facts and one false one about Zacchaeus in the tree. Luke 19, verses 1 to 10. The tree was a sycamore.

How it works

In the two truths and a lie party game, each player makes three statements and the group guesses the false one. These 206 two truths and a lie ideas, funny set included, are sentences with a blank to fill.

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Build three statements from the cards

Press Next card three times and note each sentence. Fill the blanks, then read all three in one flat voice. An example of two truths and a lie from "The strangest thing I own is ___.", "I have never eaten ___." and "I once met ___.": a traffic cone, a pickle, an astronaut.

Where the good truths and the easy lies are

Travel and places and Mishaps and close calls give good truths: small, odd and easy to prove. Hard means rare, so the Brushes with fame cards suit the lie. The Funny set stays kind: "I talk to my ___ as if it can hear me." Lie builders holds 17 ways to disguise a lie. The Bible edition names 16 stories, each with its passage in the list.

  • A funny lie is a dull one. Claim a boring breakfast and let your wildest truth take the votes.
  • Flip it for a harder round: two lies and one truth. Or deal four: three truths and a lie.
  • With adults, Jobs and work gives the richest truths: a three-day job, an email sent to the wrong person.

Questions and answers

Is there a worksheet to print?

Pick a topic, then Print on the end card: the starters print as slips, up to 120 at a time, and each player draws three. For a sheet to write on, there is a printable two truths and a lie page.

What makes the lie in 2 truths and a lie hard to spot?

Make it smaller than your truths. Say you have never broken a bone, and let your true story about a goat draw the votes. Then pick a truth nobody would guess, and leave out the one detail that explains it.

Does two truths and a lie work as an icebreaker at work?

Yes, and it needs no props. Above ten people, split into circles of five or six so everyone gets a turn. For a team, the Jobs and work suggestions stick to past jobs, commutes and desks, and any player may press Next card.

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