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Truc is a traditional French trick-taking game rooted in Catalan origins. It’s notable for its emphasis on skillful bluffing and strategic challenges amongst players. The game is typically enjoyed by individuals and small groups seeking a competitive experience based on deception and card play. It r...

Fibbage is a digital trivia party game developed and published by Jackbox Games, first released in 2014. It operates by presenting players with obscure trivia prompts, challenging them to invent convincing but factually incorrect answers to deceive their opponents. Players earn points both for guess...

The Unbelievable Truth is a BBC Radio 4 comedy panel game hosted by David Mitchell in which contestants must smuggle true facts into a lecture composed mostly of plausible-sounding falsehoods, with opponents scoring points by spotting the truths.

"Secret Hitler" is a social deduction tabletop game published in 2016 following a successful crowdfunding campaign. Designed by Max Temkin, Mike Boxleiter, and Tommy Maranges, the game sets players in a fictionalized 1930s liberal democracy. Participants are secretly divided into two opposing politi...

Liar's Dice is a family of bluffing games played with concealed dice. Players make progressively higher claims about how many dice of a particular face exist across all players' cups, then either raise the bid or challenge the previous bidder; an incorrect challenge costs the losing side a die. The...

Truco Argentino is a partnership card game widely played in Argentina, using a 40-card Spanish deck with the eights and nines omitted. Each hand combines trick-taking with staged wagers, and players may raise the value of the hand through calls such as truco while using bluffing to influence opponen...

Truco Venezolano is a South American variant of the traditional Spanish trick-taking game Truc, heavily popularized in Venezuela. It is typically played by four players divided into two partnerships, utilizing a reduced 40-card Spanish deck. The game is characterized by a unique blend of tactical ca...

Truco is a widely played South American trick-taking card game derived from Spanish games such as Truc. It is typically played by four players in two partnerships using a reduced 40-card deck. The game is distinguished by its aggressive bluffing and verbal challenges, where players use specific call...

Dutch trick-taking card game played with a 32-card deck, notable for its mid-hand bluffing mechanic in which any player may knock to raise the point stake of the current round.

Absolute Balderdash is a multi-category party game that expands upon the classic bluffing board game Balderdash, where players create fake answers to obscure prompts to fool their opponents. In addition to the traditional word definitions, this version introduces categories such as dates, movie plot...

Balderdash is a bluffing word game derived from the traditional parlor game Dictionary, in which players invent plausible definitions for obscure words. A reader presents the real definition alongside the fabricated entries, and participants score by identifying the correct answer or persuading othe...

Released in 2012 and designed by Rikki Tahta, Coup is a card-based social deduction game set in a dystopian future. Accommodating two to six players, the game challenges participants to bluff, manipulate, and deduce their opponents' hidden roles to survive. Each player is secretly dealt character ca...

Fictionary is a classic parlor game where players create fake definitions for obscure words found in a dictionary to trick their opponents into guessing the incorrect meaning for points.

Mexican bluffing dice game where players roll two dice secretly and announce a value claiming to beat the previous player; a roll of 2-1, called 'Mexico,' is the highest possible.

A word game where players hear a spoken sentence and race to unscramble a set of letter tiles to spell a specified word from that sentence before their opponents do.

Liar's Club is a television panel game format, originating in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s, in which celebrity panelists each provide a fabricated explanation for an unusual object and contestants must identify which one is telling the truth.