Who’s Bluffing? · a Play Along round
Three stories. One is true. The room decides.
Who’s Bluffing? is the game that turns your own people into the entertainment. Before the night, your team send me their true stories. On the night, three go up at a time, only one of them real, and every guest votes on their phone. Spot the truth and you score. Fool the room and you climb the Best Liar leaderboard, which is the award everyone actually wants to win.
Think Would I Lie to You?, with your colleagues on the panel and three hundred people voting.
How a round plays
How Who’s Bluffing? plays, minute by minute.
Your team submit their stories through a simple form before the event. I write the rounds from them, so the bluffs are about people the room actually knows.
Three stories go up
Priya once sold an ice cream to Sir David Attenborough.
Dev was an extra in a Bond film.
Sam has a black belt in judo.
One is true. I read them, or the people themselves do, and the room starts arguing.1The room votes
Ninety seconds on every phone. Tables lobby each other, people stare at Dev, and the vote count climbs on the big screen. Nobody sees the split until it locks.
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Here is the truth
The bars fill in. Forty-one per cent went for the ice cream, and the ice cream was a lie. The true story is marked, and your phone tells you whether you spotted it or got fibbed.
3The bluffers score too
Anyone whose story fooled the room collects a point for every person they took in. That total runs all night, so the quiet one from accounts can end up top of the Best Liar board.
4Standings and the Best Liar
Guest scores are grouped by table for the main leaderboard, and the Best Liar is announced at the end of the night. I have never seen anyone refuse that award.
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On the big screen
The real screens, not a mock-up.
Who’s Bluffing? runs on two screens at once: the big screen the whole room watches, and the phone in every guest’s hand. Both are my own software, built for live events and run from one control screen at the front.
Three ways to play
Three ways to play Who’s Bluffing?.
Every game I run can be played three ways, and I pick the way that suits the room, the timings and the layout on the night: as a show at the front, table against table, or with every single guest playing on their own phone. Mix them across an evening and nobody spends the night watching.
As a show
Three colleagues on the panel, the room as the jury
The classic panel show. Three guests come to the front, each with a story, and the room votes on their phones or by a show of hands. I cross-examine, the room heckles, and the bluffers have to hold their nerve. Brilliant with a senior team who are game.
Best for: awards nights and leadership dinnersAt the tables
Every table nominates a storyteller
Each table sends up one story of their own, true or invented, and the other tables vote on it. Tables score for spotting truths and for the bluffs that get past the room, so the whole table is in on the lie.
Best for: conferences and team away daysOn the app
Every guest votes on their own phone
The native version. Stories collected before the event through a simple form, three at a time on the big screen, ninety seconds to vote, and a personal verdict on every phone at the reveal. Scores grouped by table, Best Liar tracked across the whole night.
Best for: Christmas parties and whole-company nightsBuilt for the room
Same game. Two very different rooms.
I customise every game for the audience in front of me: the questions, the answers, and the way I present them. The same format is a completely different show for a room of graduates in their twenties and a room of chief executives, and it should be. I write for the people who will actually be there, then I speak into the listening on the night: I read what the room is giving back and change gear to match it.
Loud, fast and slightly chaotic
- Stories I would pick
- The gap-year one, the celebrity encounter, the thing that happened at the last party. Short, visual and easy to picture.
- How I host it
- I let the room interrogate the storytellers. Follow-up questions from the floor, thirty seconds each, then vote. It gets rowdy and that is the point.
- What lands
- Finding out the quiet one has the wildest story in the building.
Drier, cleverer, just as revealing
- Stories I would pick
- First jobs, near misses, the deal that nearly did not happen. Stories with a bit of weight, told with a straight face.
- How I host it
- Slower. I let the storyteller finish, then take two questions from the room and let the silence do some work before the vote.
- What lands
- A finance director who turns out to be an outrageous liar. It changes how a leadership team sees itself, in a good way.
1Written for your people
Send me the year’s stories, the in-jokes, the departments and the industry. The rounds are built from them, so the answers land in a way no off-the-shelf pack ever can.
2Speaking into the listening
The words on the screen are half of it. How I present them is the rest, and I pitch the pace, the teasing and the tone to the room that has turned up, not the one on the brief.
3If a different crowd turns up
Eight hundred events across festivals, awards, conferences and dinners means I have hosted every kind of room. If the mood is not what anyone expected, I change the style on the spot, and often the questions too.
In the running order
Where Who’s Bluffing? fits in the night.
Where it sits in the night
Once the room is warm, usually after the first course. It needs people who have relaxed enough to lie well.
How long
Three to four minutes a round including the reveal. Four or five rounds makes a block; one a course works beautifully.
Pairs well with
Open with Common Ground, then this, then close the night with The Final Few.
All fourteen games
Fourteen games. One host. One screen.
Five rounds the whole room plays on their phones, and nine big-screen games with teams at the board. All of it is my own software, run from one screen, so I can switch format the moment the room needs a lift. Tap any game to see exactly how it plays.
Common Ground
Vote with the room, score for matching it
How it plays →On your phoneThis page
Who’s Bluffing?
Three stories, one true, the room decides
You are hereOn your phone
The Final Few
A knockout quiz down to the last few standing
How it plays →On your phone
Side Bets
Play money on what happens next on stage
How it plays →On your phone
The Cut
Everyone answers, the lowest scores are cut
How it plays →Big screen
Family Fortunes
Two teams, one survey board, three strikes
How it plays →Big screen
Quiz Show
Categories, buzzers and picture rounds
How it plays →Big screen
Play Your Cards Right
Higher or lower on a row of giant cards
How it plays →Big screen
What the Blank
Fill the gap, match the room’s funniest answers
How it plays →Big screen
Guess the Phrase
A hidden phrase, one letter at a time
How it plays →Big screen
Category Clues
Describe it without saying it, against the clock
How it plays →Big screen
Scavenger Hunt
The whole room up, hunting and mixing
How it plays →Big screen
The Generation Game
The conveyor belt of prizes to remember
How it plays →Big screen
Bongo Bingo
Rave bingo with dance breaks and forfeits
How it plays →Every one of these can be played as a show, at the tables or on the app, and every one is written around your company before the night. Not sure which mix suits your event? Tell me the room and I will suggest a running order.
For the venue and IT
Nothing to install. Nothing to worry about.
- Guests play in their phone’s browser. No app store, no account, no personal data beyond a first name and a table.
- Runs on the venue’s Wi-Fi or on 4G. Tested with three hundred phones answering at once.
- One code for the whole night. Phones follow whichever game is on the big screen.
- The venue provides a screen and a sound system. I bring everything else and run it from the front.
What clients say
Kevin recently hosted a company corporate event and proved to be the consummate professional throughout the evening. He has the unique ability to read a room and keep everyone happy.
Kevin hosted our staff conference event this year which was fantastic. He brought an energy and enthusiasm with him and played a really important part in getting people engaged in the day.
Thank you Kevin for hosting our Christmas party in December 2025. The team had an amazing time. We really liked the intertwining of awards and the game. Everyone had a brilliant time and Kevin was fantastic.
Good to know
Who’s Bluffing? FAQs.
Is this Would I Lie to You?
It has the same heart: true stories, confident bluffs and a room trying to tell the difference. The difference is that the stories are about your own people, and instead of a panel of three voting, the whole room votes on their phones and the bluffers score for everyone they fool.
Where do the stories come from?
Your team. Before the event I send a simple online form and people submit true things about themselves. I pick the best, write the bluffs to sit alongside them and build the rounds. Nobody has to prepare anything on the night.
Do people have to stand up and lie?
Not unless they want to. By default I read all three stories myself and the room votes on which is true. If you have a few natural performers, they can tell their own and the game gets even better.
What is the Best Liar award?
A running total, across the whole night, of how many people each bluffer fooled. It is announced at the end alongside the table leaderboard, and it is the trophy people fight over.
How many guests does it work for?
Everyone in the room votes, so it scales from thirty to three hundred. The show version at the front works with any size of room; the phone version has been tested with three hundred voting at once.
Is it suitable for a work crowd?
Yes. The stories are chosen and edited by me before the night, so nothing goes on the screen that should not. It is sharp, not cruel.
What does it cost?
Fees are quoted individually for the date, the venue and the length of the show. Send the numbers and the running order and I will send a quote.
Enquiries
Find out who is bluffing at your event.
Tell me the date, the venue, rough numbers and the kind of crowd. I will confirm availability, explain how the story form works and send a quote.
