Truth or dare? Pick before you peek.

Give the story some room.

1. Agree on the tone before the first turn.
2. Choose Truth or Dare before revealing the prompt.
3. Answer, try the dare or pass. Hand the phone to the next player.

20 truths and 20 dares to try

Every example comes from Talkbox’s Light deck. Keep it playful. Other people only join a dare when they want to, and passing needs no explanation.

1. What lie do you tell when you want to leave a party?
2. What’s the pettiest reason you’ve stopped liking someone?
3. What’s the worst excuse you’ve used for being late?
4. What do you pretend to understand?
5. What’s a compliment you still think about?
6. Which purchase did you immediately regret?
7. What have you snooped through that wasn’t yours?
8. What’s your least convincing sick-day story?
9. When did you last get caught talking about someone?
10. What’s something you’re weirdly competitive about?
11. What’s the most embarrassing thing you’ve searched for?
12. Which harmless habit would your housemates ban?
13. What’s the longest you’ve kept an apology in your drafts?
14. What’s your most unreasonable dealbreaker in a flatmate?
15. When did you last pretend you hadn’t seen a message?
16. What story do you exaggerate every time you tell it?
17. What’s the most effort you’ve put into looking effortless?
18. What’s a trend you joined far too late?
19. What’s the worst thing you’ve blamed on bad Wi-Fi?
20. What’s one thing you’re glad your parents don’t know?
21. Let the group give you two nicknames. Pick the one they can use until your next turn.
22. Start a food chain. Each person names a food beginning with the last letter of the previous one. Complete two laps.
23. Put one non-private thing from your pocket or bag on the table. The group has to guess why you carry it.
24. Choose a colour and point to five things of that colour without leaving your seat. The group checks for repeats.
25. Learn one small fact from each player, then repeat them back without mixing anyone up.
26. Deliver a ten-second campaign speech for an object on the table. The group votes whether it gets elected.
27. Describe your most-used emoji without naming its face, object, or colour. Let someone identify it.
28. Give two excuses for being late: one you’ve used and one invented. Let the group spot the real one.
29. Ask the player on your left to choose one thing they want your honest opinion on. Give it.
30. Let someone challenge one of your food opinions. You each get one sentence to make your case.
31. Build a shared takeaway order. Each person adds one item; repeat the whole order before adding your own.
32. Give sports commentary as a willing player slowly reaches for a snack. Stop after fifteen seconds.
33. Give the person on your left a compliment about something they actually did.
34. Perform the opening line of a made-up soap opera. End on a cliffhanger.
35. Give a ten-second luxury advert for the least impressive object you can see.
36. Tell a true short story and change one detail. Let the group find the invented part.
37. Swap names with a willing player until your next turn. Everyone has to use the new names.
38. Put a harmless unpopular opinion to a show of hands. Hear out one person who disagrees.
39. Become a museum guide. Explain a nearby object as if it were a priceless ancient discovery.
40. Give the group two harmless facts about yourself and one lie. Let them vote on the lie.