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True or false

A statement appears: true or false? Answer as fast as you can before the timer runs out. A mistake shows the correction, and the time to read it comes off your timer.

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Rules

How to play

Pick a theme and a duration. Each statement is true half the time: click True or False, or use the arrow keys (or the V and F keys). Every correct answer scores a point.

If you get it wrong, the correction appears for a moment. That reading time comes off your timer: better to think for a second than to make a mistake. At the end, see all your mistakes with their explanations.

The statements come from the five hundred Trivia questions and the data on the 197 countries: capitals, flags and populations. Thousands of possible combinations, never two identical games.

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