Truth or dare
Truth or dare questions
Truth or dare is a party game where each player chooses to answer a personal question honestly or do a dare, and the group decides if it counts. Here are 30 truths and 30 dares you can do anywhere: no props, nothing dangerous.
Play free with friends
- No app
- No sign-up
- 2–16 players
How to play
- Pick a player. Go round the circle, or let Drunken Penguins pick who’s on the spot (it spreads turns out fairly).
- Truth or dare? They choose. Truth means answering honestly. Dare means doing it, right now.
- The room decides. Everyone else votes on whether it counts. Chickening out is allowed, but everyone will know.
Truths
- What is the most embarrassing thing in your search history?
- Who in this room would you call first in an emergency?
- What is the pettiest thing you have ever done?
- What is a secret talent nobody here knows about?
- What was your worst first impression of someone here?
- What is the last lie you told?
- What is one thing you would change about yourself?
- What is the weirdest dream you remember?
- What is the most childish thing you still do?
- Which person here would survive the longest on a desert island, and why not you?
- Who in this room has the best style, and who needs help?
- What is the grossest food combination you secretly love?
- What is your most irrational fear?
- Which app do you spend way too much time on?
- What is your guilty-pleasure song?
- What is the most embarrassing nickname you have ever had?
- What did you get away with as a kid that your parents still don’t know?
- If you could swap lives with someone here for a day, who would it be?
- What is the most useless thing you are really good at?
- What is the strangest thing you believed as a child?
- What is one thing you are secretly proud of?
- What text would you least want someone to read right now?
- What is the weirdest thing you have ever eaten?
- What is your most controversial food opinion?
- Who do you text the most?
- What is the most trouble you have ever been in at school or work?
- What would you do if you were invisible for a day?
- What is the longest you have gone without washing your hair?
- What is the most awkward date you have been on?
- What is your weirdest habit when nobody is watching?
Dares
- Let the group pick one app on your phone and show your most recent screen in it.
- Do your best impression of someone in the room until the group guesses who.
- Talk in a news-reader voice until your next turn.
- Show your secret talent. Right now. The group decides if it counts.
- Let the person on your left send one emoji to anyone in your chats.
- Do 15 seconds of your most dramatic movie death.
- Speak only in questions until your next turn.
- Sing the chorus of the last song you listened to.
- Let the group give you a new nickname and answer only to it for the rest of the game.
- Hold a plank until someone else finishes their turn.
- Talk like a pirate until your next turn.
- Do 10 jumping jacks while saying the alphabet.
- Try to lick your elbow for 10 seconds.
- Speak like a robot until your next turn.
- Balance a book or a phone on your head for 30 seconds.
- Show the group your best dance move, with no music.
- Make up a four-line poem about the person on your left.
- Be a TV chef and describe the last thing you ate like it’s a masterpiece.
- Let the group pick an animal. Act like it until someone guesses.
- Do a 20-second advert for something in the room.
- Keep a straight face for 30 seconds while the group tries to make you laugh.
- Say the alphabet backwards, as fast as you can.
- Draw a self-portrait with your eyes closed and show everyone.
- Tell a joke. If nobody laughs, tell another one.
- Do your best evil laugh.
- Be a news reporter covering this party, live, for 30 seconds.
- Give a 30-second speech on why you should be president of this group.
- Walk like a penguin across the room and back.
- Sing everything you say until your next turn.
- Recreate a famous movie scene with the person on your right.
These dares are the warm-up.
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Who in this room would you least want to be stuck with on a road trip?
Dare: Let the group read your last three sent messages.
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Which friend here would you drop first if you had to?
Dare: Call your mum or dad on speaker and ask for their honest review of you as a child.
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As a drinking game
- If the room says your truth or dare doesn’t count, take a sip.
- Choosing to skip your turn costs two sips.
- If the whole room votes yes, the dare-doer picks someone else to sip.
Always optional: whether you drink, and what you drink, is always your own choice and your own responsibility. Water counts. For friends aged 18 and over.
Questions people ask
- How do you play truth or dare?
- Players take turns choosing truth or dare. A truth is a personal question they answer honestly; a dare is a small challenge they do on the spot. The group decides whether it counts.
- What are good truth or dare questions for friends?
- Good truths are personal but fun, like your guilty-pleasure song or the pettiest thing you’ve done. Good dares are silly, quick and doable anywhere, with no props and nothing risky.
- Can you play truth or dare online?
- Yes. On Drunken Penguins the game picks who is on the spot, they choose truth or dare on their phone, and everyone else votes on whether it counts.
- How do you make truth or dare a drinking game?
- If the room votes that your truth or dare doesn’t count, you take a sip. Drinking is always optional. Whether you drink, and what you drink, is always your own choice and your own responsibility. Water counts.