Truth or Dare: 144 Questions That Actually Get Used

This guide explains the traditional game as it is played offline. The Antics app, for iPhone and Android, is a party-only app built on forfeits and contains no drinking instructions.

How to play Truth or Dare

The basics: ask someone "truth or dare?" They pick. Truth = answer honestly, dare = do the thing. Then it's their turn to ask someone. Refusing costs a forfeit, agreed before the game.

The two house rules that fix the game: no picking truth more than twice in a row (ends the coward problem), and the asker can't repeat a question someone else already used.

19 TRUTHS Ask them like you mean it

Who in this room would you most want to kiss, if you had to pick?
Read out the last text you sent.
What's the biggest red flag you've ignored because they were hot?
Who did your last risky text go to?
What's your toxic trait, according to your exes?
What’s the most embarrassing photo in your camera roll right now?
Whose profile did you last look at on social media?
What's the worst thing you've done on a night out?
If you HAD to date one person in this room, who?
What's the biggest ick someone's ever given you?
What was your honest first impression of the player on your left?
Which two people in this room would make the best couple?
What's the biggest lie you've told a parent?
Who's the last person you ghosted?
Who in this room would you trust least with your phone unlocked?
Who in this room has the best chat on a night out, and the worst?
If you had to swap lives with someone in this room, who and why?
What's the most trouble you ever got in at school?
What's the cringiest thing you've ever posted online?

Run out? The app deals the rest of the deck and never repeats a card until you have seen them all. Get Antics free.

20 DARES No lame filler

A good dare has a cost the room can watch. Phones are the modern truth serum: half of these use one.

Let the group scroll your camera roll for 20 seconds. You may veto ONE album.
Show the group your screen-time report. No explanations allowed.
Text your most recent match "you crossed my mind today x".
Kiss someone in this room (cheek counts, cowards).
Read out the last thing you typed in your notes app.
Do your best impression of the player on your left.
Let the player on your right send one emoji from your phone to anyone they choose.
Perform your go-to flirty dance move on the count of three.
Swap phones with the player on your left until your next turn.
Demonstrate your best chat-up line on the player on your left with full commitment.
Moan the alphabet until someone laughs.
Show the room the last five photos in your camera roll. One veto.
Twerk for 15 seconds.
Tell the group your honest first impression of everyone here, one by one.
Sit on the player on your left’s lap until your next turn.
Make up a 30-second rap about the person on your left.
Impersonate another player until someone guesses who it is.
Narrate everyone's movements like a nature documentary for the next two rounds.
Sing everything you say for the next two rounds.
Do your best catwalk across the room and back. Commit to it.

The Truth or Dare app

Antics is a Truth or Dare app: you choose truth or dare and it deals the card, and it has eight more party games beside it.

On iPhone and Android, in eleven languages.
Free cards to start, and Antics Premium unlocks the full deck.
No ads and no sign-up.

More truths, sorted by who is asking. All of them are dealt in the Antics app.

FOR MATES Truths

Who in this room survives longest in a horror film, and who goes first?
If you got cancelled tomorrow, what would it most likely be for?
What’s something you’ve done that your parents can NEVER find out about?
What’s the most embarrassed you’ve ever been?
Whose number in your phone should you definitely delete?
Have you ever been caught talking about someone… by that someone?
What’s your villain origin story, the thing that made you shift gears?
What’s the strangest thing you do when you’re home alone?
Have you ever pretended to love a gift? What was it?
Have you ever blamed something on a sibling or a pet that was 100% you?
What’s the most embarrassing thing you know off by heart?
Who in your phone has the most unhinged contact name, and what is it?
What talent do you claim that you have never once demonstrated?
What’s your most catastrophic autocorrect that actually sent?
What’s the dumbest thing you believed until embarrassingly recently?
What’s the worst thing you’ve eaten out of politeness?
What did you last watch that you’d deny watching?
What’s your most embarrassing recurring dream?
What’s the one question you were hoping nobody would ask tonight?
What’s a rumour about you that’s actually true?
What’s the most embarrassing thing a family member has done in front of your friends?
Who in this room have you had a full argument with in your head, but never out loud?

FOR COUPLES Truths

Pair up everyone in this room for a kiss. Who gets who?
What’s the riskiest place you’ve done it?
What’s the thirstiest message you’ve ever sent?
Who was your worst kiss ever?
What’s the pettiest thing you’ve done after a breakup?
What’s the worst date you’ve ever been on?
What would your brutally honest dating-app bio say?
What’s the most awkward run-in you’ve had with an ex?
What’s the weirdest attempt at flirting you’ve ever had to endure?
What’s the longest you’ve stayed somewhere terrible because someone fit was there?
What’s your most shameful celebrity crush?

FOR UNI AND FRESHERS Truths

What’s the longest you’ve gone without washing your bedsheets?
What’s your worst habit that the people you live with have to put up with?
What’s the fastest you’ve ever left a party, and why?
What’s the most desperate thing you’ve done for Wi-Fi?
What’s the most out-of-date thing in your fridge right now?
What basic adult task are you still completely useless at?
What’s the strangest thing you’ve done to avoid paying full price?
What’s the most embarrassing real reason you’ve cancelled plans?
What’s the most you’ve ever exaggerated on a CV or application?
What’s the most expensive mistake you’ve ever made, in money or time?
What purchase are you still justifying to yourself?
What are you weirdly cheap about?
What’s your honest review of the last party this group threw?
Who in this room do you think has the messiest room at home?
Who in this room would you want on your pub quiz team, no contest?
What have you said to a barber or taxi driver purely to fill silence?
What’s the most illegal thing you’ve ever done?
Who in this room do you think is the worst texter?
Who in this room would you never lend money to?

More dares, sorted by where you are. All of them are dealt in the Antics app.

LIVING ROOM DARES Dares

Wink at every player in turn. If they wink back you have to do a forfeit.
Perform your morning routine as a dramatic slow-motion action scene.
Dance with no music for 30 seconds while everyone watches in silence.
Act like a cat until your next turn. Full commitment.
Hold eye contact with the player across from you for 60 seconds without laughing.
Do 20 star jumps while reciting your favourite film quote.
Hold a wall-sit for the next full round.
Let the player opposite you restyle your hair however they want.
Wear your socks on your hands for the next three rounds.
Freeze! Hold whatever pose you’re in for the next full round.
Re-enact the last goal, point or win you ever scored, in slow motion.
Start a wave. It must go around the room twice.
Invent a dance move, teach it, everyone performs it.
Redesign the seating plan and make everyone move, with reasons.
Perform the last five minutes of this game as one-person theatre.
Sit like a Victorian portrait until your next turn.
Deliver a disappointed-parent lecture to a cushion.
Perform CPR on a cushion with medical-drama-finale intensity.
Patrol as a security guard who suspects this group of something.
Act out the five stages of grief about the snacks running out.
Do the airline safety demonstration for this room, pointing at real exits.

PUB SAFE DARES Dares

The group picks one word you can’t say for the rest of the game.
Speak in an accent chosen by the group until your next turn.
Talk about yourself in the third person for the next three rounds.
Speak in a whisper for the next three rounds.
Let the group rename you for the rest of the game. Respond only to that name.
Give a heartfelt acceptance speech for an award you invent on the spot.
Sell the nearest object to you like Jordan Belfort.
Become a waiter and take everyone’s order, fully in character.
Give the next player a movie-trailer voice introduction.
Compliment every player while maintaining intense, unbroken eye contact.
The group gives you one word each; deliver them all as a motivational speech.
Do your best impression of the group chat as a single person.
Invent a national holiday, announce it, and demonstrate its traditions.
Reenact the worst date you’ve ever been on, using the nearest object as your date.
Name every player’s phone case from memory, eyes closed.
Name everyone’s hot drink order from memory. The room corrects you loudly.
Act out getting terrible news over the phone, no words, just face and body.

QUICK DARES, NO PROPS Dares

Reproduce the sound of dial-up internet from memory.
Owl impression: head as far round as it goes, hold, one hoot.
Count down from ten like it’s the tensest moment in live television history.
Perform “waiting for a microwave” in real time. Ten seconds, rising tension.
Say the months of the year in alphabetical order, under thirty seconds.
Shadow-box an invisible opponent for fifteen seconds. The room decides who won.
Say “good morning” to each player in a different mood: furious, flirty, terrified, royal, betrayed.
Demonstrate your kiss face. Hold it while the room rates it out of ten.
Perform “slipping on ice” without actually falling. Commit.
Be a robot malfunctioning, ending in a full reboot.
Stretch like you’ve woken from a hundred-year sleep. Full performance.
Both hands on your head, explain calmly why you are not panicking.
Describe your last kiss like a football commentator.
Do your best red-carpet arrival, complete with fake photographers, for ten seconds.
Give the room a one-sentence horoscope for how tonight ends, delivered like a fortune teller.

Christmas Truth or Dare questions

Truth or Dare, Christmas edition: 17 truths and 12 dares, all Antics Christmas cards, from the work Christmas party to midnight on New Year's Eve. Want them dealt one at a time? Christmas Truth or Dare deals them in your browser.

Christmas truths

Where’s the strangest place you’ve ever woken up on New Year’s Day?
What’s the worst thing you’ve done at a work Christmas party?
Who in this room would you most like to get stuck under the mistletoe with?
What’s the most awkward thing that’s ever happened at your family’s Christmas dinner?
Who in this room would you least want to buy a Secret Santa present for?
What’s the worst journey home for Christmas you’ve ever had?
Which ex are you most likely to text at midnight on New Year’s Eve?
How did you find out Santa wasn’t real?
Who in this room would you bring home to meet your family at Christmas?
What’s the worst Christmas present you’ve ever had from someone you were dating?
What’s the worst thing you’ve done to win a board game at Christmas?
What’s the cheapest Secret Santa present you’ve ever got away with?
Who are you dreading bumping into back home this Christmas?
Which Christmas song sums up your love life right now?
What New Year’s resolution does the person on your left need most?
What’s your family’s weirdest Christmas tradition?
What part did you play in your school nativity?

Christmas dares

It’s ten seconds to midnight on New Year’s Eve. Count the room down from ten, then kiss whoever’s nearest on the cheek.
Be the Christmas tree. The room has thirty seconds to decorate you with whatever’s to hand.
Pretend the person on your left just gave you the worst present ever. Open it and thank them like you mean it.
Put every player here on Santa’s naughty or nice list, and say why.
Text the last person you kissed: “Merry Christmas x”.
Hold your hand over the person on your left and the next person along like mistletoe. They kiss on the cheek or both do a forfeit.
Act out a Christmas film with no words. The room has thirty seconds to guess it.
Be a shopping centre Santa. The person on your left sits on your knee and tells you what they want for Christmas.
Let the person on your left pick a New Year’s resolution for you. Break it before your next turn and you do a forfeit.
Lead the room in a Christmas song. Anyone who hasn’t joined in by the chorus does a forfeit.
Wake the person on your left up like an excited kid on Christmas morning.
Run into the person on your left’s arms like the end of a Christmas film.

These are free in the Antics app from 1 December to 1 January: switch Christmas on in the game's lobby.

Refusals, penalties, and keeping it fun

Offline, Truth or Dare is often played with drinks. Set the refusal forfeit before the game instead (10 press-ups, speak in an accent for two rounds). Everyone gets one hard veto per game for anything they're genuinely not doing: the game's better when the pressure is theatrical, not real.

Truth or Dare FAQ

What are the rules of Truth or Dare?

One player asks another "truth or dare?" If they pick truth, they must answer a question honestly; if they pick dare, they must do the challenge. Then they become the asker. Refusing either costs an agreed forfeit.

What happens if someone refuses a dare?

They take the forfeit agreed before the game, and a second refusal earns a bigger one. Give everyone one no-questions-asked veto per game so nobody gets genuinely cornered.

Can you always pick truth?

House rule it: no more than two truths in a row is the standard fix. Without it, one coward can turn the game into an interview.

Is Truth or Dare OK to play without drinking?

Yes: it barely changes. A refusal costs a forfeit and everything else stays the same. It's the questions that carry the game.

Are there Christmas Truth or Dare questions?

Yes: the Christmas lists on this page have 17 truths and 12 dares, and Christmas Truth or Dare deals them one at a time in your browser. These are free in the Antics app from 1 December to 1 January: switch Christmas on in the game's lobby.

Play it right: 18+ energy needs 18+ consent: the veto rule exists so dares stay funny instead of mean. Nothing here should end friendships, relationships, or employment. Look after your mates.

Plenty more where these came from

These are from Antics: the party games app. The full Truth or Dare deck calls players out by name and never repeats a prompt until you've seen them all. Plus a whole stack more games, a party-only edition built on forfeits, no ads, no sign-up.

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