Baloney is a free daily lie-detection game. Each of ten rounds shows three short statements on one topic — exactly one is a plausible fabrication. You tap the fake before the timer, then every statement is revealed as true or false with a one-line truth, and you earn a shareable Baloney Detector verdict from 'Believes Everything' to 'Baloney Immune'. No account, no sign-up.

How do you play Baloney?

Open the site, read the three statements in each round, and tap the one you think is fabricated before the ~30-second timer runs out. After each round the fake is revealed along with the truth of all three statements, plus what percent of today's players got fooled. You win by smell, not recall — no trivia knowledge required.

Yes. Baloney is completely free and ad-supported, with no account, no sign-up, and nothing to install. A new set of ten rounds is released every day and is the same for everyone that day; your streak is saved in your browser.

Case File #0076

Sep 5, 2026 — 10 rounds, declassified. The fabrication in each is marked; the truth of all three follows. Play today's case →

Round 1 HISTORY
- ✓ TRUE
  The Roman Colosseum was completed around 80 AD and could seat tens of thousands of spectators for public games.
  TRUE — estimates put capacity near 50,000, filling an enormous stone amphitheatre.
- ✗ FABRICATION
  Roman gladiators always fought to the death, and no gladiator ever survived beyond a handful of matches in the arena.
  FALSE — many gladiators survived for years, gained fans, and could win freedom; deaths were costly and not guaranteed.
- ✓ TRUE
  Ancient Romans mixed volcanic ash into their concrete, helping some of their structures survive for two thousand years.
  TRUE — pozzolanic ash gave Roman concrete remarkable durability, even in seawater.
Round 2 LANGUAGE
- ✓ TRUE
  The sentence 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' is a pangram that uses every letter of the English alphabet.
  TRUE. It is the classic example of a sentence containing all 26 letters.
- ✓ TRUE
  Written English once used more letters than it does today, including characters like thorn (þ) that later fell out of use.
  TRUE. Old English included letters such as thorn and eth that disappeared over time.
- ✗ FABRICATION
  The English alphabet has always had exactly 26 letters, unchanged since the language was first written down.
  FALSE. The alphabet evolved over centuries, adding and dropping letters before settling at 26.
Round 3 GEOGRAPHY
- ✓ TRUE
  Antarctica is the largest desert on Earth, because a desert is defined by low precipitation rather than heat.
  TRUE. It receives so little precipitation that, by that definition, it qualifies as a polar desert.
- ✓ TRUE
  Antarctica's ice sheet holds a majority of the world's fresh water, far more than all rivers and lakes.
  TRUE. Roughly 60 to 70 percent of Earth's fresh water is locked in the Antarctic ice sheet.
- ✗ FABRICATION
  Antarctica is the smallest continent, covering less area than Australia.
  FALSE. Australia is the smallest continent; Antarctica is roughly twice its size.
Round 4 SCIENCE
- ✓ TRUE
  Ice floats because water is unusual: it expands and grows less dense when it freezes.
  TRUE. Water's crystal structure spreads molecules apart, so ice is lighter than liquid water.
- ✗ FABRICATION
  The Coriolis effect decides which way water swirls down your bathroom drain in each hemisphere.
  FALSE. At a sink's scale the Coriolis force is far too weak; basin shape and initial motion decide the swirl.
- ✓ TRUE
  Salt lowers the freezing point of water, which is why it's scattered on icy roads in winter.
  TRUE. Dissolved salt makes water freeze at a lower temperature, helping melt road ice.
Round 5 LANGUAGE
- ✓ TRUE
  The word 'panic' derives from the Greek god Pan, who was blamed for the sudden, groundless fear that could seize people in lonely places.
  TRUE. 'Panic' fear was 'of Pan', the wild god thought to cause unexplained dread.
- ✓ TRUE
  The word 'volcano' comes from Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and the forge.
  TRUE. The fiery mountains were linked to Vulcan's underground workshops.
- ✗ FABRICATION
  The word 'cereal' comes from the Latin 'serere', meaning 'to sow seeds', later respelled with an initial 'c'.
  FALSE. 'Cereal' comes from Ceres, the Roman goddess of grain and agriculture, not from 'serere'.
Round 6 GEOGRAPHY
- ✗ FABRICATION
  Africa is the largest continent on Earth by total land area.
  FALSE. Asia is the largest continent by area; Africa ranks second.
- ✓ TRUE
  Asia is both the largest continent by area and the most populous.
  TRUE. Asia leads the world in both land area and population.
- ✓ TRUE
  Africa is the second-largest continent by land area.
  TRUE. Africa ranks second in size, after Asia.
Round 7 ANIMALS
- ✓ TRUE
  An owl can rotate its head about 270 degrees, more than three-quarters of a full turn.
  TRUE. Extra neck vertebrae and specially adapted blood vessels let it turn far beyond what a human neck allows.
- ✓ TRUE
  An owl's eyes are fixed in their sockets, so it must turn its whole head to look around.
  TRUE. Owls cannot roll their eyes side to side, which is why they swivel their heads instead.
- ✗ FABRICATION
  Owls have eyes powerful enough to see clearly in complete, pitch-black darkness.
  FALSE. Owls see very well in low light but, like every eye, still need some light; they cannot see in total darkness.
Round 8 SPACE
- ✗ FABRICATION
  Neil Armstrong's first words after stepping onto the Moon were written for him weeks earlier by NASA's public affairs office.
  FALSE. Armstrong always maintained he came up with 'one small step' himself, around the time of the landing, not from a NASA script.
- ✓ TRUE
  Buzz Aldrin quietly took Christian communion on the lunar surface, likely the first food and drink consumed on the Moon.
  TRUE. Aldrin brought a small communion kit from his church and used it shortly after landing in 1969.
- ✓ TRUE
  The Apollo 11 crew left a small silicon disc on the Moon carrying goodwill messages from leaders of dozens of nations.
  TRUE. The etched disc shrank statements from world leaders to microscopic text and still sits on the surface.
Round 9 GEOGRAPHY
- ✓ TRUE
  Iceland is greener and milder than its name implies, while Greenland is largely covered by ice.
  TRUE. The names are misleading: Iceland has green lowlands and Greenland is mostly ice sheet.
- ✓ TRUE
  The country of Georgia in the Caucasus shares its name with the U.S. state of Georgia.
  TRUE. There is both a country and a U.S. state called Georgia.
- ✗ FABRICATION
  New York City was the first U.S. capital and still serves as the seat of the federal government today.
  FALSE. New York was an early capital, but the U.S. seat of government is now Washington, D.C.
Round 10 NATURE
- ✗ FABRICATION
  The Nile is the only major river in the world that flows from south to north, which long made maps of it unusual.
  FALSE — plenty of large rivers flow south-to-north; direction depends only on where the land slopes downhill, so the Nile isn't unique.
- ✓ TRUE
  The Amazon River discharges more water into the sea than the next several largest rivers combined.
  TRUE — its outflow is so vast that it dilutes ocean saltiness far offshore from its mouth.
- ✓ TRUE
  For most of its length the Amazon's main stem has no bridges crossing it.
  TRUE — width, wetlands, and sparse road networks mean the main river is crossed almost entirely by boat.

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