Fake News: A Drinking Game

Updated every day, this game serves up a random selection of actual, but hard to believe, headlines and satirical ones. Players guess if the headline is real or if it's fake. Get it wrong? You drink. OK, you don't have to drink. It's fun to play with or without alcohol. And with or without friends.

But there's comfort in both those things when the line between what's absurd and what's normal is so blurry it's practically no line at all.

The headlines are sourced from Reddit: one subreddit called "The Onion" which simply reproduces headlines from the satirical news site, and another subreddit called "Not The Onion" which serves up headlines so weird or farcical that they seem fake.

There's an educational value here as well: working the muscles that help us distinguish between truth and falsehood is a good thing for stuff like democracy and human interaction and the future of the species.

But most of all, it's good fun to be absolutely sure something is false only to find out it's true, or vice versa. And the laugh it generates is a sure sign that something important, that flicker of uncertainty that makes us doubt our own beliefs, is alive and well. And THAT little flicker of uncertainty is the only way humanity progresses.

Enjoy the fun of being fallible, and human.