Define or Lie

Tap the true definition 1-4 pick by key

How Define or Lie Works

We pull a genuinely obscure (but completely real) English word from the dustier shelves of the lexicon and surround it with four definitions. Exactly one is the truth. The other three are confident fabrications, hand-authored to sound exactly as plausible as the real thing. Your job is to out-discriminate a language model.

  1. A real obscure word appears with four candidate definitions
  2. Tap (or press 1–4) on the one you believe is true
  3. Answer fast — leftover seconds become bonus points
  4. Build a streak for a rising combo multiplier; three wrong guesses ends the run

Why Is This Hard?

The fakes are written the way a model hallucinates: fluent, confident, internally consistent, and wrong. A real definition often sounds weirder than the lie, because reality wasn't optimized for plausibility. Trust the strange one. Distrust your priors. The machine would answer instantly and be confidently incorrect — be the human.

Slop Fact: Large language models are champion balderdash players in reverse — they generate the convincing fake definitions effortlessly and then bet the whole context window on them. This game is just RLHF for your own embarrassing overconfidence.

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