Witness Stand

A sure-sounding witness testifies to every trivia question — but it lies sometimes, and catching the lie pays the most.

How to play

Each round a witness states an answer to a trivia question with total confidence. You decide whether to trust the testimony or challenge it as a lie. Trust a true answer for small points; catch a lie and name the real answer for the big score. Guess wrong either way and you lose points.

• Trust accepts the witness's answer as true.
• Challenge calls it a lie — then you must pick the real answer from the options.
• Catching a lie scores the most; trusting a lie or challenging the truth costs you.
• Play through a fixed run of rounds, building score, streak and accuracy.

Game modes

• Daily and Practice runs, each seeded separately.
• Easy, Medium and Hard difficulty, which change how often the witness lies.

Controls

• Desktop: press T to Trust or C to Challenge, click an option to name the real answer, and Enter or Space to advance.
• Phone & tablet: tap the Trust and Challenge buttons and tap an answer option — fully touch-playable.

Tips & strategy

• On higher difficulty the witness lies more often, so challenge more freely.
• Only challenge when you actually know the real answer — a correct catch needs the right pick.
• Protect your streak: when truly unsure of a likely-true answer, trusting is the safer bet.

About Witness Stand

Witness Stand is an original free browser trivia game that wraps a quiz in a courtroom of deception, rewarding you for reading a confident liar as much as for knowing the facts.

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