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 #0081

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

Round 1 SPACE
- ✓ TRUE
  Astronauts tend to grow slightly taller during spaceflight because the spine stretches without gravity compressing it.
  TRUE. The discs between vertebrae expand in microgravity, adding a few centimeters until they return home.
- ✓ TRUE
  In the microgravity of space, a candle flame burns as a rounded blob rather than the teardrop shape seen on Earth.
  TRUE. Without gravity-driven convection, hot gases don't rise, so flames form spheres.
- ✗ FABRICATION
  Sound travels through the vacuum of space at roughly one-tenth of the speed it moves at on Earth.
  FALSE. Sound cannot travel through a vacuum at all, because there are no molecules to carry the vibrations.
Round 2 SCIENCE
- ✓ TRUE
  Honey recovered from ancient Egyptian tombs was still edible thousands of years later, thanks to its low moisture and natural acidity.
  TRUE. Honey's low water content and acidity choke out microbes, so sealed honey can last practically forever.
- ✗ FABRICATION
  Honey never freezes or hardens even far below zero, because its dissolved sugars prevent any crystal structure from forming.
  FALSE. Honey actually crystallizes and stiffens over time; cold speeds up the sugar granulation rather than preventing it.
- ✓ TRUE
  At a specific low pressure called the triple point, water can boil and freeze at the same time.
  TRUE. At the triple point, water's solid, liquid, and gas phases coexist in equilibrium.
Round 3 SPACE
- ✗ FABRICATION
  Mercury, being the closest planet to the Sun, is therefore the hottest planet in the solar system.
  FALSE. Venus is hotter; Mercury has almost no atmosphere to hold heat, so its night side turns freezing cold.
- ✓ TRUE
  Mercury has almost no atmosphere, so its surface temperature swings dramatically between day and night.
  TRUE. Without air to trap heat, the surface bakes in daylight and plunges far below freezing after dark.
- ✓ TRUE
  Mercury spins three times on its axis for every two orbits it completes around the Sun.
  TRUE. This unusual 3-to-2 spin-orbit lock means a solar day on Mercury lasts two of its years.
Round 4 NATURE
- ✓ TRUE
  A rainbow is actually a full circle of light; from the ground the horizon simply hides its lower half, so we see only an arc.
  TRUE. A rainbow is a complete circle — pilots and skydivers sometimes see the whole ring.
- ✗ FABRICATION
  A rainbow always shows exactly seven distinct colour bands, a count fixed by the physics of how light splits.
  FALSE. A rainbow is a continuous spectrum with no fixed number of bands; 'seven colours' is a naming convention, not physics.
- ✓ TRUE
  In the fainter secondary rainbow that can appear above the main one, the order of the colours is reversed.
  TRUE. The outer bow of a double rainbow runs its colours in reverse, from a second internal reflection.
Round 5 SPACE
- ✓ TRUE
  The International Space Station circles Earth about every 90 minutes, so its crew sees roughly 16 sunrises a day.
  TRUE. At orbital speed it laps the planet 16 times daily, giving astronauts frequent sunrises and sunsets.
- ✗ FABRICATION
  The International Space Station draws its main electrical power from a small onboard nuclear reactor.
  FALSE. The station runs on large solar arrays, not a reactor, converting sunlight into electricity.
- ✓ TRUE
  The International Space Station has been continuously occupied by rotating crews since the year 2000.
  TRUE. Humans have lived aboard without interruption since the first long-duration crew arrived in late 2000.
Round 6 SPACE
- ✓ TRUE
  Olympus Mons on Mars rises roughly 22 kilometers high, making it the tallest known volcano in the solar system.
  TRUE. It stands about two and a half times the height of Mount Everest above the surrounding plains.
- ✓ TRUE
  Mars has two small moons, Phobos and Deimos, named for the Greek figures of fear and dread.
  TRUE. Phobos means fear and Deimos means dread, sons of the war god who fits the planet Mars.
- ✗ FABRICATION
  Phobos is slowly spiraling away from Mars and will eventually break free to become an independent asteroid.
  FALSE. Phobos is spiraling inward, not outward, and is expected to crash into Mars or shatter into a ring.
Round 7 SCIENCE
- ✗ FABRICATION
  A penny dropped from the top of a skyscraper would kill a pedestrian standing on the sidewalk below.
  FALSE. A penny's shape and low terminal velocity mean it would sting at worst, not kill.
- ✓ TRUE
  Terminal velocity is the steady speed a falling object reaches once air resistance balances gravity.
  TRUE. When drag equals the pull of gravity, the object stops accelerating and falls at a constant speed.
- ✓ TRUE
  In a vacuum, a feather and a hammer fall at the same rate, as an astronaut showed on the Moon.
  TRUE. With no air resistance, all objects accelerate equally; Apollo 15 demonstrated this on the Moon.
Round 8 NATURE
- ✓ TRUE
  A saguaro cactus can live for more than 150 years and may not grow its first arm until it is several decades old.
  TRUE. These giants are slow-growing and long-lived, branching only after many years.
- ✓ TRUE
  A cactus carries out photosynthesis in its thick green stem, while its leaves are reduced to spines.
  TRUE. The spines are modified leaves; the fleshy stem does the photosynthesising.
- ✗ FABRICATION
  A cactus stores water by growing a large internal bladder that it fills from its roots like a tank.
  FALSE. Cacti store water throughout their thick, spongy stem tissue rather than in a single bladder-like organ.
Round 9 ANIMALS
- ✓ TRUE
  Some ants can carry objects many times their own body weight, and ants can link their bodies into living rafts to survive floods.
  TRUE. Ants are famously strong for their size and will interlock into floating, water-resistant rafts.
- ✓ TRUE
  Ants communicate mainly through chemical signals called pheromones, laying scent trails that lead nestmates to food.
  TRUE. A forager leaves a pheromone trail that other ants follow and reinforce.
- ✗ FABRICATION
  Ants are solitary insects that meet only briefly to mate before going their separate ways.
  FALSE. Ants are among the most social animals on Earth, living in colonies of thousands or millions with divided labour.
Round 10 HISTORY
- ✗ FABRICATION
  Albert Einstein failed mathematics as a schoolboy and very nearly abandoned his studies before switching to physics.
  FALSE — Einstein excelled at mathematics from a young age; he himself dismissed the failing-math story as nonsense.
- ✓ TRUE
  In 1905, his so-called miracle year, Einstein published four papers that reshaped modern physics.
  TRUE — the 1905 papers covered the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, special relativity, and mass-energy equivalence.
- ✓ TRUE
  Einstein was offered the presidency of the state of Israel in 1952 but politely turned it down.
  TRUE — he declined, saying he lacked the aptitude for dealing with people and official duties.

← All past cases