Real foreign words. Absurd fake meanings. Choose carefully.
100 phrases from 50+ languages — Italian, Korean, Yiddish, Tibetan, Hawaiian, Inuit, Welsh, Bengali, even Easter Island Rapa Nui. Each comes with two possible meanings. One is real. One is a punchline. Pick wisely.
One real meaning. One plausible decoy. One absurd joke.
Saudade. Hyggeligt. Ikigai. The phrases are real. The decoy sounds like another idiom from the same language. The third is for laughs. Group has to pick the actual meaning.
From Mandarin to Maori.
European, Asian, African, Pacific, Indigenous languages all represented respectfully. Each round teaches you something genuinely beautiful or surprising about a culture.
The correct answer randomizes each game.
Sometimes A is right. Sometimes B is. Each play, the order shuffles so you can't game it. You actually have to read.