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Straight Face

One of these answers is real. The rest are people you work with.

3–8 players · 15 min · best with five or six

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A question with one true answer nobody has. Everybody types a fake, the table votes, and then every answer gets a name. 3 to 8 people, about 15 minutes.

Nobody has to know anything, and that is the design rather than an apology for it. The questions have real answers that almost nobody has, so a colleague who has never heard of one is in exactly the same chair as the colleague who has — and on most rounds, writing something convincing pays better than knowing the answer would have.

Everybody types at the same time and nothing here is a turn. There is no queue, nobody is thinking slowly in front of an audience, and the quiet half of a call plays it exactly as loudly as the rest — which is not true of any game where you have to say your answer out loud.

A sitting is five questions rather than a lap of the table, so eight people are not signed up for twice as long as four. Nobody is eliminated, nobody waits a round out, and the worst thing that happens to you is that nobody believed a word you wrote.

A round

The questionEverybody writesOne vote eachNames on

On the sheet

+2You — you picked the true one
+1You — for each player who picked what you wrote
+1 eachBoth of you — two of you wrote the same thing, and it is not split between you
0Nobody — the table emptied before the vote resolved
How to play Straight Face
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