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To ask you for your own WILTY stories?

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hepsitemiz · 09/06/2026 12:57

I like to organise dinner parties where we copy the premise of "Would I Lie to You?" If you're not familiar with this programme, each person reads out a story supposedly from their recent or distant past. The story they read out may or may not be true, and the other guests get to cross-examine the story teller and decide whether or not they believe them. The crucial thing is these stories are a mixture of funny and embarrassing.

Of course I tweak the format a little to suit a DP - we cannot do the "This is My..." round for instance, and spouses cannot interrogate, or vote, on their partner's stories.

Guests send me their true story a couple of days ahead, and I invent an equally ridiculous lie that is both entertaining and plausible. Then both truth and lie go into an envelope which the story-teller draws from: so 50-50 it's a lie. Some of the funniest details of a story come out in the cross-examining - if the story is a lie, the teller has to make up whatever details he can to make it seem plausible. As a teller you get points for passing truths off as lies, and for passing lies off as truths. The others get points for sniffing out the lies and endorsing the truths.

Since I've done this a few times, I'm running out of hilarious lies, since not everything can be recycled. For new lies, I like to draw on weird true stories from friends and relatives. One of my favourites, as an example, was when a friend was forced to run out into the street in her nightie at 8.30 am to retrieve her lacy knickers that were travelling quite fast past the neighbours' houses. The detail is that they had got caught on the back of a hedgehog who then continued on his usual early-morning foraging route. They landed on the hedgehog after she had shaken her counterpane out of the window after a very very late party, not realising there was underwear on there... the knickers wafted down to the flowerbed below where the hedgehog like to browse.

So this is where I need your help: new, hilarious stories. Things that may have happened to you, or to someone you know. Goodness knows we all need the odd amusing distraction these days.

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hepsitemiz · 09/06/2026 18:19

Another good one, @Overworkedandknackered 😉

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hepsitemiz · 09/06/2026 18:18

Thank you so much for those very funny, awkward stories!

Only some of the guests have done this before, and have asked me if I'm planning another one. We are all in France, so very few are familiar with the WILTY programme and all have loved the game. In France, we don't do corporate team-building days in the way that some of you are describing.

Mistaken identities can be very funny, @Harriet36 . A little in this vein, another friend's' story was that she was once serenaded at a house party by a man with a guitar who played "The Whole of the Moon" to her... Feeling a little self-conscious and being a bit drunk, she jokingly advised him not to give up the day job - only to be told that the guy was actually the lead singer and guitarist for the Waterboys. God forgive me but I found that funny!

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Overworkedandknackered · 09/06/2026 18:10

Gosh some people on here are so miserable, I think it sounds like fun and the OP obviously enjoys it so why piss on her chips?

I’ll give you a story, I was walking through our local town and saw a woman I recognised with 2 small children about the same age as my children, so I assumed she was a school mum and waved and did a little ‘hi, nice to see you’ thing as I walked past, she looked at me like I was I was a nutter. When I got home I realised she wasn’t a school mum, she was the star of the big show on ITV at the time and her face was on the front page of the ITV streaming site.

Noodge · 09/06/2026 18:00

ChicAutumnCrow · 09/06/2026 16:40

I have some lovely acquaintances but OMG that thought of them trying to play along with a ‘hilarious’ and complex lie is excruciating.

Me: So, why exactly did you think at that exact point, I know! I’ll just move this table with the precariously balanced three-tier wedding cake on it over there a bit, without asking anyone for help!

Friend: Erm I don’t know, I wasn’t there.

I guess this could happen if people didn't want to join in,but it sounds as if OPs friends do. I agree @TheRealWhacker . You got a lot of miserable responses at first. MN can be a bit 'fun sponge' at times.

Harriet36 · 09/06/2026 17:44

I think this sounds like a fun idea as long as everyone knows in advance - and it sounds like they do.
My story would be the time I met a TV personality in a bar, and she thought she recognised me. She asked after my children and insisted on buying me a glass of wine. She then asked me to join her and her friends for dinner. At that point, I declined, drank my wine and legged it.
The friend I was with kept asking me how I knew her, and why hadn't I told him about my friendship with her. He wouldn't believe it was a case of mistaken identity.

ChicAutumnCrow · 09/06/2026 16:40

I have some lovely acquaintances but OMG that thought of them trying to play along with a ‘hilarious’ and complex lie is excruciating.

Me: So, why exactly did you think at that exact point, I know! I’ll just move this table with the precariously balanced three-tier wedding cake on it over there a bit, without asking anyone for help!

Friend: Erm I don’t know, I wasn’t there.

Lemonyyy · 09/06/2026 16:23

I think it sounds really fun op - Def the sort of thing our friend group would do (currently planning a group taskmaster for a big birthday party next month!)

Obviously my brain has gone squidge but I'll have a think, I have definitely played this game before!

Yikes101 · 09/06/2026 16:11

It sounds fun to me but I can’t think of any stories for you.

TheRealWhacker · 09/06/2026 15:50

God mumsnet is so miserable at times. I think it sounds very fun OP especially after a few drinks and nothing like the crap corporate “two truths and a lie” 🙄.

FeliciaFancybottom · 09/06/2026 15:44

It sounds excruciating. Why not organise a dinner party where you eat dinner and just chat?

Hotandpointy · 09/06/2026 15:26

Are you sure your guests actually want to do this, again…?

AnonyMumAuDHD · 09/06/2026 15:19

Ohwhatfuckeryitistoride · 09/06/2026 13:26

Kindly, if you've done this a few times, the format has probably run its course. Once or twice a year maybe, but too much like hard work for a dinner party.

Agree - it’s a common warm up for corporate/training days too. I think people may groan (inwardly) at the thought of it.

Noodge · 09/06/2026 15:02

I think It's a really good idea OP, one I might steal from you in fact. I have only ever watched this if it has been on at someone's house, or if someone has shown me a clip, so I hadn't thought of it.

How about, I once ended up being mistaken for a guide of a tour and as I knew a fair bit about the tour area, I just went along with it.

Or, I once met up with an old friend that I had mistaken for a different friend, and kept trying to convince them of all these things we'd done together rather than admit that I had made a mistake

hepsitemiz · 09/06/2026 14:55

Thank you... I've done two of these parties over the last four years, if that's of any relevance. It was a great ice-breaker and truly appreciated, so I felt it was worth the effort.

I thought it might be fun for people to share their own wilty stories on here, but I can see I was wrong about that, so I apologise unreservedly for misuse of AIBU.

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MrsTerryPratchett · 09/06/2026 14:35

It sounds a lot of work for guests. And now outsourcing the work to MN!

JacquesHarlow · 09/06/2026 14:26

Ohwhatfuckeryitistoride · 09/06/2026 13:26

Kindly, if you've done this a few times, the format has probably run its course. Once or twice a year maybe, but too much like hard work for a dinner party.

Couldn't agree more, and to start a "AIBU" thread on this forum is pretty punchy.

StandingDeskDisco · 09/06/2026 14:25

You could try a murder-mystery dinner party?

Ohwhatfuckeryitistoride · 09/06/2026 13:26

Kindly, if you've done this a few times, the format has probably run its course. Once or twice a year maybe, but too much like hard work for a dinner party.