True Confessions Game – Get-to-Know-You Activity

Compose one true and one plausible false statement about themselves

Defend a personal statement aloud under sixty seconds of questioning from the rest of the group

Judge a claim true or false from what the speaker says under questioning rather than from the statement alone

The rules assume two or three players, so a whole class splits into small tables each running its own round rather than playing as one group

Sixty seconds is the only timing in the game and the directions point to an online stopwatch, so a timer visible to the whole table keeps rounds even

Setting a boundary on what counts as a fair statement before play begins keeps the confessions light — the rules themselves place no limit on subject matter

Persuasive speaking — the reader has to argue that a statement about themselves is true, whether it is or not, and hold that line while the group probes it.

Forming questions under time pressure — the other players have exactly sixty seconds to interrogate the statement, so questions have to be quick and targeted.

Listening for inconsistency — the final true-or-false call rests on what the speaker said while answering, not on the written statement by itself.