Bluffo — the bluffing game

One player draws a card and reads the question out loud. What a “kerf” is. What a “squinch” holds up in a tower. What a “tenter” was, in “on tenterhooks”.

Then the phone goes round the table, and everyone else reads something they are not allowed to repeat: the real answer.

Now you choose. Tell the truth, and work in every red word. Or invent the whole thing, and never let one of them cross your lips. Only one player may take the truth; the app quietly enforces the rest.

Everyone answers out loud, in turn, with as much nerve as they can manage. Then the reader names the one they believe, and the card opens.

TRUE CARDS, CHECKED TWICE Rare words, idioms, objects and inventions. Every answer is an established fact backed by two independent sources: you bluff on the truth.

ONE PHONE, THAT’S ALL • Three to eight players, around a single phone • No account, no connection, nothing collected • Two decks free, the rest unlocked once and for all • No ads, ever

The most convincing player wins. Not the most honest.