TVTruth or Dare? It is the question that a series of BVs are presented with in the new VTM program of the same name. But the game is no stranger to unknown Flanders either. We played the game several times during our childhood, but many people don’t know how the concept came about. Time for a history lesson!
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If you look at the questions that come up during a round of ‘truth, dare or do’ you would not expect that the game has a rich history, but nothing could be further from the truth. For example, the name of the game was first spotted in a British dictionary in 1677 (!). So, as you can guess, the concept originated in the United Kingdom. Although the British knew the game under a different name. So they called it ‘Questions and Commands’ or ‘Questions and Commands’.
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The rules of the original game were also a bit different from the version we know now, but the basic concept is generally similar. “The company you play the game with will take turns being presented with a series of questions to answer and a number of commands to perform,” it says in the description. So the idea itself was the same, but the player in question was not allowed to choose between an assignment or a question. He or she had to answer a question and carry out an assignment anyway, regardless of what it was about.
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British bourgeoisie
In the years that followed, the game became especially popular with the British bourgeoisie. This is evident from ‘The Mysteries of Love and Eloquence: The Arts of Wooing and Complementing. In 1685, the famous game was mainly played to impress a potential partner. So the game has been around for hundreds of years and the form we know it was created in 1711. In the British publication The Spectator, the term ‘truth, dare or do’ was discussed for the first time. “It’s a great tool for those who want to integrate some humor into a conversation,” it sounds, among other things. During that period, the game was also picked up en masse by British students.
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After its early rise, the game has never disappeared from the limelight and has become much more than just a game. In 2018, for example, the horror film “Truth or Dare” saw the light, a film in which a group of friends play a deadly variant of the game with each other. In addition, there are also various board games from ‘Truth, Dare or Doen’ in 2021.
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