Two truths and a lie ideas
Get a few ideas. Any that are true for you can be your truths, and one that isn't makes a good lie.
- Say three things about yourself, two true and one made up.
- Everyone guesses which one is the lie.
- Reveal it, then tell the stories behind the truths.
All 90 two truths and a lie ideas
Light
- I've never seen a single Star Wars movie.
- I can say the alphabet backward in under 10 seconds.
- I once got stuck in an elevator for over an hour.
- I was born in the back of a taxi.
- When I was nine, I won my school's spelling bee.
- I never learned to ride a bike.
- Butterflies scare me more than spiders do.
- I can wiggle my ears one at a time.
- I've been to every continent except Antarctica.
- A swimming pool once turned my blond hair green.
- My face was on a cereal box when I was a kid.
- I've never had a single cup of coffee.
- I can solve a Rubik's cube in under two minutes.
- I have an identical twin.
- A stranger once mistook me for a celebrity and asked for a selfie.
- I've spent a whole night sleeping on an airport floor.
- I once sang a solo in front of 1,000 people.
- I know how to milk a cow by hand.
- I can type more than 100 words a minute.
- I had a pet snake called Noodle.
- My parents named me after their favorite song.
- I had the same pen pal for six years, and we've never met.
- I've seen the northern lights.
- I've never been on a plane.
- I ate the exact same lunch every day for a whole year.
- I got lost in a corn maze and staff had to walk me out.
- I can't whistle.
- I've climbed a mountain higher than 4,000 meters.
- A goose once chased me across a park.
- I locked myself out of my apartment in my pajamas and had to knock on a neighbor's door.
- I still hold my high school's long jump record.
- I've never seen snow.
- I own more than 40 snow globes.
- I can hold a conversation in four languages.
- If you look closely at the background, I'm in a music video.
- For a whole season, I was a sports team's mascot.
- I can play the bagpipes.
- A stray cat followed me home once, and I kept him.
- I can juggle five balls at once.
- My dog really did eat my homework once, and my teacher didn't believe me.
- One of my closest friends started as a wrong-number text.
- I've spent a night in a lighthouse.
- I got upgraded to first class just by asking nicely.
- I wrote a fan letter to a pop star and got a handwritten reply.
- I've helped deliver a baby lamb.
- I was a competitive dancer for 10 years.
Deep
- I moved nine times before I turned 18.
- I've lived in four different countries.
- I changed careers completely after 30.
- I taught myself piano as an adult.
- I've kept every birthday card I've gotten since I was 12.
- I once spent a whole month without a phone.
- I've written a whole novel, and nobody has read it.
- I'm still in touch with my first-grade teacher.
- I've planted more than 100 trees.
- My best friend and I met when we were five.
- I learned to swim as an adult.
- At 15, I ran a small business from my bedroom.
- I spent a summer working on a fishing boat.
- I once hiked for 30 days in a row.
- I went a whole year without buying any new clothes.
- I took a job on the other side of the world without ever visiting the city first.
- I've given a talk in front of 500 people.
- I once changed a stranger's flat tire on the side of a highway.
- I found a wallet stuffed with cash and tracked down the owner myself.
- I once taught an adult to read.
- I wrote a letter to my future self and opened it 10 years later.
Bold
A little daring, never explicit
- I once pretended to be a tour guide for a group of real tourists.
- I've been asked to leave a library for laughing too loudly.
- I have a tattoo nobody in my family has seen.
- I once asked someone out by passing them a note on the subway.
- Someone once wrote a song about me.
- I once hid in a closet for an hour to avoid a guest at my own party.
- I've been on a blind date that lasted 12 hours.
- I sat through 20 minutes of the wrong wedding before I noticed.
- In fourth grade, I convinced my whole class I was related to a famous singer, and they believed me for a year.
- I once booked a flight to a city I'd never heard of because the ticket was cheap.
- I've been banned from family board game night.
- I fell asleep on a display bed in a furniture store.
- I swapped places with my twin for a whole school day.
- I got stuck on a ski lift with a stranger, and we went on a date the next week.
- I once washed dishes at a restaurant because I'd forgotten my wallet.
- On a dare, I wore a banana costume for a whole day.
- I flirted with someone for 10 minutes before finding out they were my new boss.
- A violinist once serenaded me in a restaurant.
- Someone proposed to me on a train, 20 minutes after we met.
- I've been on three first dates in one day.
- I had a secret crush on my best friend for five years.
- I once climbed out of a window to skip saying goodbye at a party.
- I pranked my boss so well they still don't know it was me.
Questions about the questions
How do you play two truths and a lie?
Take turns saying three things about yourself. Two are true and one is a lie, and everyone else guesses which. The stories behind the true ones are usually the best part.
What makes a good lie?
One that sounds as likely as your truths. Pick an idea that could easily be you, or take something real and change one detail, like the city, the year or who was there.
Try them on new people
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