Bluff Off
Write a lie good enough to fool the room, then find the truth.
A question with one true answer and a room full of invented ones. You write a lie, everybody sees all of them shuffled together, and you score both for finding the truth and for the people who fell for yours.
- Players
- 3 to 12 players
- Usually takes
- About 12 minutes
- What it plays from
- Questions with one true answer
- Ways to play
- Online room, Party screen
How it plays
The question goes out, and every player gets a minute to write something that sounds plausible. Koven mixes the real answer in with the fakes and shows the lot, with no names attached. You vote for the one you think is true, and you cannot vote for your own. Points go to whoever found it, and points go to whoever wrote the lie they picked instead, which is the bit that makes people brave. The reveal names every author, so the person who fooled their whole family gets to enjoy it properly.
What happens in a round
Straight from the game itself: these are the phases the room moves through, in order, with the clock each one starts on.
Write a fib
Make up an answer good enough to fool everybody else.
1 minute
Find the truth
One of these is true. Your own fib is not an option.
45 seconds
The truth
Who found it, who wrote what, and who fooled whom.
12 seconds
Who it suits
- A room that likes arguing about who wrote what
- Players who would rather be funny than fast
- Teenagers and grown ups in the same game, on equal terms
How you can play it
Online room
Everybody on their own phone, in the same room or three hundred miles apart. Guests join with a four letter code and no download.
Party screen
The telly or a laptop shows the game to the whole room. Phones become controllers, so nobody has to squint at somebody else’s screen.
Play it with your own words
Every format runs on a deck, and you can write your own. A deck you make is yours to share with your family by code straight away. Anything you publish to strangers is read by a moderator first.
Play it tonight
Koven is in beta. Leave your email and we will send you a link when there is space, or open the player if somebody has already given you a room code.
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Free on the free tier, like every other format in Koven.