Fake News

One of These Really Happened

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Key features

  • Three headlines, one real: a new five-round Daily every day, from yesterday's news
  • A Real or Fake? finale: swipe each headline right or left
  • Every real story comes with its date, place and sources
  • See how you stack up: today's score chart, the leaderboard and how many players each headline fooled
  • Strange-but-true history in the Back Pages, with a new look at every rank
  • Daily Quests and every finished game pay Coins for a Newsstand of looks
  • Share your score, or dare a friend to beat it

One of these really happened

Every round of Fake News puts three headlines on the desk: one is a real, reported story, and the other two were made up. Find the real one.

The real ones are the strange stories that actually ran: an airport putting a time limit on goodbye hugs, a contest for the best seagull impression, a banana taped to a wall selling for millions. The inventions are just as plausible.

  • Five rounds a game, one point each. No clocks, no penalties.
  • Real or Fake? to finish: swipe each of three headlines right for Real or left for Fake. One, two or all three could be true.
  • Every answer comes with the story: what happened, when, where, and the sources to read it yourself.

Something new every day

  • The Daily: a fresh edition every day, made from the odd and wonderful news of the day before.
  • How You Did: see how your score stacks up against everyone who played today, which headlines fooled the most people, and where you sit on Today's Leaderboard.
  • Daily Quests: four a day, each paying Coins just for playing. Every game you finish pays Coins too.
  • Past Editions: catch up on the last week of Dailies.

More to play

  • The Back Pages: strange-but-true stories from history, one game at a time, with more added all the time. Rise through the newsroom from Copy Kid to Managing Editor, earning a new look at every rank.

Make it yours

  • The Newsstand: spend Coins on new papers, verdict stamps, press titles and masthead ornaments. Looks only, never an advantage.
  • The Scrapbook: star the most unbelievable story of each game and keep it.

Share your score, or dare a friend to beat it.