Fib Fact Rules: How to Play

Each player needs a phone, tablet or computer with a browser and a keyboard to type on. Nothing to download.

A game needs at least three players. Bots fill the seats up to five, so you can play on your own, with one friend, or with a whole room.

A TV or laptop is optional. It shows the question, the answers and the reveal for the whole room.

The host opens a room and everyone joins with the room code or the invite link. While the host is setting up, bots join until there are four players. In the lobby, the host can set each bot to easy, medium or hard.

Before starting, the host picks two things:

• Questions from: any mix of the packs, or Everything. The packs are General, Movies, Music, Science and nature, Geography, History, Food, Sport, Video games and Kids. Everything is on to start.
• Questions: 5, 7 or 10 per game. The default is 7.

Fib Fact only deals the medium and hard questions from each pack, because an easy question is over the moment one person knows it. The Kids pack keeps its easy questions too, since its players are the ones who do not know them.

Questions anyone in the room has seen lately are held back until the packs you picked run out. With several packs on, the packs take turns.

1. Write (40 seconds). Everyone sees the same question and writes a fake answer that sounds true, up to 40 characters. Press Enter or Fib it to send it. Once sent, it is locked in.
2. The board is built. Every fake goes up with the real answer, shuffled. The game adds fakes of its own (house fakes) so there are always at least five answers.
3. Pick (20 seconds). Tap the answer you think is true. You never see your own fib on the list. Your first tap is your pick.
4. The reveal. The answers people picked are shown one at a time, the least picked first, with who picked each one and whose fib it was. Then the answers nobody fell for, together. Then the truth, always last, with a link to where it can be checked. Then the points for that question.
5. On to the next question.

• A fib that is already taken is refused, and you write another. Taken means it is the real answer, or one slip of the thumb away from it, or the same as a fib another player has already sent for this question. The message is the same either way, so it does not tell you which, and only you see it.
• A number has to match exactly to count as the truth. If the answer is 1908, you can write 1909.
• Words on the blocked list are refused, and you are asked to try another word.
• Capitals, spaces, punctuation, accents and a leading “a”, “an” or “the” do not make two answers different.
• In the rare case that two players send the same fib at the same moment, it goes on the board once and counts for both. Neither of them sees it when picking.

Points for each question, before the round’s multiplier:

• Pick the truth: 100 points.
• Every player who picks your fib: 50 points to you.
• A fib written by more than one player splits its points between the writers, rounded up.
• House fakes and hidden answers score for nobody.
• No pick, or a pick of a house fake: no points for that question.

The questions split into three rounds. Round one is worth single points, round two double, and the last question on its own is round three, worth triple. Finding the truth on the last question is worth 300, and each player fooled is worth 150.

• 5 questions: 1 and 2 single, 3 and 4 double, 5 triple.
• 7 questions: 1 to 3 single, 4 to 6 double, 7 triple.
• 10 questions: 1 to 5 single, 6 to 9 double, 10 triple.

After the last question, the most points wins. Players with the same score share the place.

The Best liar award goes to the player who fooled the most players over the whole game. If nobody fooled anyone, it is not given.

House fakes come from the question’s own wrong answers first, then from answers to other questions of the same kind. They are never the truth or the same as an answer already on the board.

A table of six or more with bots in it gets one house fake even when the board already has five answers.

While people are picking, the host sees a Hide button beside each answer. It takes a fake off every board, for a word the filter missed. The truth cannot be hidden.

A hidden answer scores for nobody. If you had already picked it, your pick no longer counts and you can pick again.

• Closing early: writing or picking ends as soon as everyone still in the room has finished, without waiting for the clock.
• Last call for bots: once every person has finished and only bots are left, the bots get 2.5 seconds more, not the whole clock.
• Time running out: if you have not written a fib, nothing of yours goes on the board, and you can still pick. If you have not picked, you score nothing for finding the truth.
• Someone leaving: the game does not wait for them. Their points stay on the leaderboard, and if they come back during the game they can carry on playing.
• Late joiners: the seats are set when the game starts. Someone who joins later watches this game and plays in the next.
• Ties: players level on points share the place.

Bots write and pick like anyone else. A bot writes some time between 8 and 30 seconds into the writing, and picks between 4 and 14 seconds into the picking, so it is never always first or always last.

A bot’s fib is one of the question’s stored fake answers, never one already written. When picking, an easy bot finds the truth about a quarter of the time, a medium bot about two times in five, and a hard bot a little over half, a bit more often on easier questions and less on harder ones. Otherwise it falls for a fake, and a person’s fib is twice as likely to fool it as a bot’s or a house fake.

• Solo: start a room and three bots fill the table. They write fibs, pick answers, and fall for yours.
• With friends anywhere: share the room code or invite link. Everyone writes and picks on their own phone.
• As a party: put joinme.games/watch on a TV and enter the room code. The TV shows the question, who has written, the answers and the reveal, and plays the room’s sounds.

• Writing: type your fib and press Enter, or tap Fib it.
• Picking: tap the answer you think is true. Your first tap is your pick.
• Host only: tap Hide beside an answer to take it off the board.

How do you play Fib Fact?

Everyone gets the same strange trivia question and writes a fake answer that sounds true. Then all the fakes and the real answer go up together, and everyone picks the one they think is true. You score for finding the truth and for every player your fib fools.

How many players do you need for Fib Fact?

Three or more. Bots fill the seats up to five, so you can play alone or with one friend.

Can you play Fib Fact alone?

Yes. Start a room and three bots join. They write fibs of their own, pick answers, and can be fooled by yours.

How do you win Fib Fact?

Have the most points after the last question. Finding the truth is worth 100 and each player you fool is worth 50, doubled in round two and tripled on the last question.

What happens if I write the real answer by accident?

You are told that answer is already taken, by the real answer or by another player, and asked to write another. The same message shows when someone else got to your fib first, so it does not give the answer away. Nobody else finds out.