Two Truths, One Lie

A Skill Harbor house build: Two Truths, One Lie, the bluffing icebreaker classic, refereed by your own Muse inside a group chat you own. Players take turns as the featured player. Each featured player privately gives the referee three short statements about themselves, two true and one false, and the game turns on a simple pleasure: learning surprising true things about people you know, and finding out who can bluff with a plausible detail. It plays with 3 players minimum, 4 to 8 recommended, and it is asynchronous on purpose: collection runs 24 hours by default and voting 12 hours, so a turn takes hours and a full cycle, every player featured exactly once in the recorded rotation order, stretches over days around real life. Your assistant is the referee, and the sealing is the whole design. The three statements are collected in private, in a 1:1 thread with the featured player, who designates in that same private reply which statement is the lie. Before anything is published, the referee runs a written quality gate: all three statements must be plausible and comparably detailed, verifiable in principle, short and self-contained, with nothing sensitive (health, money, intimate life, conflicts, third parties). A sensitive or unverifiable statement, a pure taste or opinion nobody could be right or wrong about, is replaced before publication, privately, and the request gives only the gate reason: it never reveals, in any message, which statement is the lie. The replaced statement is kept nowhere and shown to no one. Only then does the referee shuffle the order, write the final statements and the key, which published statement is the lie, into a sealed state file, and publish the three numbered statements in the group thread. From publication on, neither the statements nor the key changes. Votes are private for a reason: a visible vote anchors the next ones. Every player except the featured player votes in 1:1, one number, changeable until the deadline, and the referee answers only "received". Silence at the deadline is an abstention. At the deadline, and not before, the referee reveals the lie, the detail of the votes, and the points in a single message. Scoring is fixed in advance: a correct guesser earns +1, a fooled guesser earns nothing, and the featured player earns +1 per fooled voter capped at 2 per turn, so one perfect bluff cannot win a whole cycle. An abstention earns the featured player nothing. A player who already knows a statement is true or false, because they were there or were told, declares it privately and abstains on that turn under the honour rule, with no reason ever given in the thread. A tie at the top of the final standings means co-winners. Honest prerequisites: installing the skill files needs nothing at all. Playing needs a Muse assistant and a messaging account you connect to it yourself, Messenger first, plus a group on it that you designate and that belongs to you; the referee writes from your own account, and every public message needs your approval before it is sent. If the host also plays, the collection instruction goes out on a template approved once, its filled versions are never shown to a playing host, and the limit is stated plainly in the announcement: secrecy toward a playing host is procedural, a matter of trust, not a technical wall. This listing is under the Skill Harbor House License v1.0: free to use, all rights reserved, not open source.