I always like I Never better than Truth or Dare, because dares always scared me.

That and "One of these sentences is true." Or whatever that's called.

Two Truths and a Lie, I think.

Oh, lord. I played "I Never" all the time in rugby, and a few times in Peace Corps (that's one way to get to know each other quickly. and get drunk quickly).

I knew the spade thing. I didn't know that phrase was ever NOT racist.

Poor "spade is a spade." It spent hundreds of years with the humble goal of having people avoid euphemisms and fancy language, only to get caught up in a controversy having nothing to do with garden utensils.

In my youth, "black as the ace of spades" was often used for anything very black. For example, "His clean shirt was black as the ace of spades when he climbed out of the coalpi.e." I don't know at what point spade slipped into the bad company of spic, raghead and their evil friends.

My *god* I loved I never. You get to totally frame yourself exactly as rapacious as you want to be, and learn shit about your friends.

My sister! My friends got to the point that they wouldn't play with me anymore. I still love it.

I also loved the drinking games "Questions" where you had to frame everything as a question immediately, and if you froze or said a statement, you had to drink. So of course you had to ask the most uncomfortable questions of people ever to throw them off.

I also loved the drinking games "Questions" where you had to frame everything as a question immediately, and if you froze or said a statement, you had to drink. So of course you had to ask the most uncomfortable questions of people ever to throw them off.

Did you get this from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead?

"Is there a God?"

"Foul! No non-sequiturs!"

Nope, actually. It's just a drinking game, AFAIK.

I knew spade was racist and thought it was common knowledge.

Ditto, and also ditto to knowing that "call a spade a spade" is NOT racist.

In college, "I Never" almost always had a lot of busting other people for their shit. Good times.

Our "I never", by the second time we played was straight up saying things that mean *you* had to drink, so basically one big smugfest with added inebriation.

I have no idea why it took us till the second time to get there. I assume most people just start playing it that way.

Two Truths and a Lie, I think.

That is quite possibly right. Then again, Quebec, so who knows what we called shit?

I think I played Truth Or Dare twice, and it ended in tears both times. So when they play it on TV for maximum angsty impact, I'm very "Yes--this."

Our "I never", by the second time we played was straight up saying things that mean *you* had to drink, so basically one big smugfest with added inebriation.

Oh, hell yeah! This included saying shit you knew you would have to drink to also, just to get other people fucked up and squirming.

Truth or Dare was never as fun to me, because truths were kind of boring, and most dare were boring like "Flash you tits at cars in the street" or "Go grab that guy's ass."

Um, ok? Done. Ya just waltz up to someone and say "I'm sorry, but this is a dare/winning me a bet, so I hope you'll humor me" and do whatever.

It's actually gotten me free drinks a few times in bars.

I never understood why people chose dare. You could always just lie if you chose truth, whereas dare you needed to perform.

I was super nosy, and didn't really have any interesting secrets, so I loved Truth or Dare, just for the information.