Truth or Dare?
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| Players | 2 or more |
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| Age range | 5 and up |
| Setup time | none |
| Playing time | highly variable1 |
| Random chance | Low |
| Skills required | Creativity |
| 1 Play time varies greatly depending on the number of players and their willingness to answer questions and perform dares. | |
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Truth or Dare? is a party game requiring a minimum of two players. The game is very popular with adolescents, but is also played by some adults.
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[edit] Rules
One player starts the game by asking another player, "Truth or dare?" If the queried player answers, "truth," then the questioning player asks a question, usually embarrassing, of the queried player. If the queried player answers, "dare," then the questioning player asks the queried to do something, also usually embarrassing. After answering the question or doing the dare, the queried player asks "truth or dare?" of another player and the game proceeds as before. The game may be expanded upon by adding additional options to choose from, such as making the dare apply to both the questioner and the queried, or incorporating Spin the Bottle to select the next person to be asked; this results in many different "variants" of the game, limited only by the players' creativity. The game's title is sometimes extended to reflect additional options, for example: "truth, dare, double-dare, kiss, torture or promise". When double-dare is chosen, the person chosen is requested to do something but the person making the request is also expected to do the dare as well. When kiss is chosen the person must kiss a certain person sometimes of the same sex but not often. Torture, the person will be put in a scenario that will often embarrass or cause pain. Promise, you must make a promise and keep it (works similar to dare).
[edit] Online Variant
Variations can be found on the internet where dares can be completed for prizes, such as DareMeTo.com.
A variation is also played in online locations such as TruthorDare.us. In this variant, the question is asked and the person asked (the target) then chooses to either answer (truthfully) or says "Dare". Then the asker will specify something that the target must "do" (that is, describe him/herself doing by a series of pose commands).
A "room" set up for Truth or Dare will usually include a "spin the bottle" program. It may also include software to set a "rating" on the room (whether questions and dares must be "family-friendly" or may be "R" or "X" rated) and to keep track of unanswered questions and dares that have been given but not yet completed. So a "status" command might yield something like: Q: Farmilar -> GKJones: "What is the most embarrassing thing that you ever did in a muck?" Dare: Marybeth -> Superfox: Jump in the pool with your clothes on, then do a striptease while you take them off and hang them up to dry.
[edit] Media appearances
In the film Shortbus by John Cameron Mitchell, James and Severin are enforced to stay in a closet together, in playing Truth or Dare with several people at the Shortbus.
In the TV series South Park, episode 25, "Clubhouses", aired September 23, 1998, Kyle and Stan build a clubhouse in order to play Truth or Dare with Wendy and Bebe.
In the TV series Gossip Girl, episode 5 in season 1, "Dare Devil", Jenny gets involved in an intense Truth or Dare with Blair and other folks.
In the comic book Amelia Rules! by Jimmy Gownley, Amelia and the gang play Truth or Dare. The story is in the third Amelia Rules! collection, "Superheroes", published in 2006.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Jimmy Gownley, Amelia Rules! Superheroes, Renaissance Press, ISBN: 0-9712169-7-5
