Secret Dares
Set up the game
You need at least 3 players
How to play
- 1Type the names, choose how many dares each player gets and whether the 18+ ones are in.
- 2The phone goes round the table: everyone sees their dares alone and hides them.
- 3Put the phone away and start dinner. You win by pulling yours off uncaught; at the end you open the record and check.
Example dares
- Get someone to say the word "banana"
- Get someone to say the time out loud
- Get someone to ask if you have a charger
- Get someone to ask if a song sounds familiar to you
- Get someone to knock twice on the table
- Get someone to turn round to look behind them
- Get someone to get up at the exact moment you do
- Get someone to pick up your glass thinking it's theirs
- Get someone to thank you for something you didn't do
- Get someone to give you an object they'd put away
- Get someone to watch somebody eat
- Get someone to copy the tone you're speaking in
- Get someone to finish a sentence you started
- Get someone to believe today is something special
- Get someone to tell about a whole trip
- Get someone to tell something that made them laugh recently
- Get someone to wipe their hands three times
- Get someone to put their phone face up on the table
- Get someone to read a message out loud
- Get someone to go "shhh" to quieten everyone
- Get everyone to clap
- Get everyone to burst out laughing at once
- Get someone to imitate the sound of an instrument
- Get someone to say "fine, you win"
A sample: the deck holds 1000, shuffled every game.
Frequently asked questions
- How many players do you need for Secret Dares?
- From 3 to 15. Fewer and it falls flat, more and it drags, though nobody is going to stop you trying.
- Do I have to download anything?
- No. Secret Dares opens in your phone's browser and runs right there: nothing to install, nothing to sign up for.
- Is Secret Dares free?
- Completely. Every card, every level and all six languages, with no account and no paid tier.
- What kind of dares are they?
- Never something you do yourself, always something you get somebody else to do without them realising: say a word, change seats, lend you something. That is why they are invisible: a dare people notice is a dare you failed.
- How do you know who had what at the end?
- When the dares are dealt you can save an image with the full list. It is never shown on screen — whoever holds the phone would learn everyone else's dares — so you download it and don't open it until the end.