Truth or Dare: 40 questions that actually get used

Everyone knows how to play. Nobody can think of a good dare on the spot. Here are 20 truths and 20 dares with actual teeth — phone-based, group callouts, performances — written for a room of mates, 18+ energy throughout.

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

20 TRUTHSAsk them like you mean it

1. Who in this room would you most want to kiss, if you had to pick?
2. Read out the last text you sent.
3. What's the biggest red flag you've ignored because they were hot?
4. Who did your last risky text go to?
5. Have you ever kissed anyone in this room?
6. What's your toxic trait, according to your exes?
7. What's the most embarrassing thing in your camera roll right now? Describe it.
8. Whose profile did you last look at on social media?
9. What's the worst thing you've done on a night out?
10. If you HAD to date one person in this room, who?
11. What's the biggest ick someone's ever given you?
12. What was your honest first impression of the player on your left?
13. Which two people in this room would make the best couple?
14. What's the biggest lie you've told a parent?
15. Have you ever ghosted someone? What's your excuse?
16. Who in this room would you trust least with your phone unlocked?
17. Who in this room has the best chat on a night out — and the worst?
18. If you had to swap lives with someone in this room, who and why?
19. What's the most trouble you ever got in at school?
20. What's the cringiest thing you've ever posted online?

20 DARESNo lame filler

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

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

Refusals, penalties, and keeping it fun

Set the refusal penalty before the game: a drink in the drinking version, a forfeit (10 press-ups, speak in an accent for two rounds) in the sober one. 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.