One Lie is a free daily logic puzzle in which every statement about a hidden numeric code is true except one. These are the questions people ask most often.
One Lie is a free daily logic puzzle. You are given several statements about a hidden numeric code, and every statement is true except exactly one. Easy gives you three attempts to find the code; Medium and Hard give you two.
Read the statements, work out which one must be lying, and use the remaining true statements to pin down the code. Enter the code and press ACCUSE. Full rules are on the how to play page.
Yes. A new case appears every day at midnight New York time (Eastern Time), and everyone in the world sees the same puzzle that day.
It depends on the difficulty. Easy gives you three; Medium and Hard give you two. After each attempt the board tells you how many statements your guess breaks, but not which ones. Once they are spent, the answer and the lying statement are revealed.
Easy is a 3-digit code with 4 statements and three attempts. Medium is a 4-digit code with 5 statements and two attempts. Hard is a 4-digit code with 6 statements and two attempts. All three are available every day and are scored separately.
No. One Lie has no sign-up and no login. Your streak and statistics are stored on your device and matched to it automatically.
Yes, completely. There is no payment, no subscription and no advertising.
Yes. Every case is playable in the archive once its day is over, with the same attempt limits and all three difficulties. The answer sits under each board, blurred until you ask for it. Nothing there affects your streak or the leaderboard.
Wordle is a guessing game with feedback that narrows the search. One Lie is a deduction game: every case has exactly one solution reachable by pure logic, so a careful solver can get it in one attempt without ever guessing.
Yes, and it is verified rather than assumed. Every case is checked by brute force against all 1,296 possible codes to confirm that exactly one code has exactly one false statement.
Nothing beyond themselves. Each digit is a number from 1 to 6, and digits can repeat, so a code like 144 or 3243 is perfectly valid.
Because exactly one statement in every case is false. That single lie is the whole puzzle.
See also: how to play · about One Lie.