Box of Lies

If you haven't heard of Box of Lies, then HAVE YOU BEEN LIVING UNDER A ROCK?!  Admittedly, I hadn't heard of it until our FLYP training in November, and as far as late-night television goes, yes - I do live under a rock.  I go to bed at 10:30.  The world could end and be resurrected again, and unless it pops up in my FB feed the next morning, I would probably have no idea.  That said, I'm usually pretty good at keeping up with Fallon.  

Anywho- I was getting off topic.  Do yourself a favor and take a few minutes to watch a few of the videos.  Melissa McCarthy and Jennifer Lawrence are good ones, as is Tina Fey - who helped test out the game.  If you're too lazy to go watch those videos (really?), then here's the basics:

1. The contestants sit across from each other at a table, with a barrier blocking them from seeing anything but each other's faces.

2.  They select one of the boxes lined up next to them.

3. They open the box, and then describe the contents of it.  They can choose to tell the truth or lie.

4.  The other contestant has to decide it they are lying or telling the truth.  If the are right, they get the point.  If they are wrong, the other contestant gets it.  They play until someone gets two points.

Sounds easy, right?  Well the thing I love about the show is they put some of the most bizarre things in the boxes!  Rubik's cubes in jello, an egg roll in a bird's nest, a Jane Fonda workout video in a loaf of ciabatta bread.  Stuff like that.  Really easy to trip people up if you tell the truth.  As you'll see in the videos though, sometimes people try to get even crazier with their lies and that's what messes it all up in the end.

SO - I decided to play this with my teens.  I went through my house grabbing all sorts of weird stuff and then raided the library too.  They loved it!  We had things like a lizard puppet wearing mardi gras beads, or two wooden troll dolls and a box of cake mix, a bag full of jellybeans with lip gloss, etc.  The problem was, they wanted to make the boxes, but couldn't do it if they wanted to play again.  I had all my stuff in one box, and then they'd see my stash and know if someone was telling the truth or not if they happened to see it while they were filling a box for someone else.

The next Fallon game I want to try?  Egg Russian Roulette.