Truth or dare?
Players | 2 or more |
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Playing time | None |
Chance | low |
Skills | creativity, embarrassment tolerance |
Truth or dare? is a mostly verbal party game requiring two or more players. Players are given the choice between answering a question truthfully, or performing a "dare". The game is particularly popular among adolescents and children, and is sometimes used as a forfeit when gambling.[citation needed]
History
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The game has existed for hundreds of years, with at least one variant, "questions and commands", being attested as early as 1712:
A Christmas game, in which the commander bids their subjects to answer a question which is asked. If the subject refuses or fails to satisfy the commander, they must pay a forfeit [follow a command] or have their face smutted [dirtied].[1]
Truth or dare may ultimately derive from command games such as the ancient Greek basilinda (in Greek: βασιλίνδα). This game is described by Julius Pollux: "in which we are told a king, elected by lot, commanded his comrades what they should perform".[2]
See also
- Game of dares
- Never have I ever
References
- v
- t
- e
- Button, button, who's got the button?
- Charades
- Twenty questions
- Bobbing for apples
- Telephone game
- Dreidel
- Duck, duck, goose
- Hot potato
- Murder mystery
- Musical chairs
- Musical statues
- Pass the parcel
- Pin the tail on the donkey
- Piñata
- Post office
- Scavenger hunt
- Seven minutes in heaven
- Simon Says
- Spin the bottle
- Truth or dare?
- What's the time, Mr Wolf?
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