The study of 2,000 adults found more than one sixth put their hands up to sneaking a peak at their opponent’s playing cards or scrabble tiles during a toilet break.Īnd more than one quarter have used codes or ‘walkthroughs’ on a computer game. “It all feels very innocent at first but what’s the fun in fixing a win?”īrits admit to keeping spare cards stashed away to win a game with others confessing to nudging a friend on purpose to succeed during Twister. “The feeling of winning, especially when there is a prize, is always hard to resist. The poll was commissioned by, the fast-paced, team-based smartphone pub quiz which addresses the problem of players cheating their way to a win,Ī spokesman said: “There’s always a temptation during a game or quiz to sneak an answer or peak at someone’s cards – we just can’t help ourselves. It also emerged 28 per cent of the nation have won a pub quiz by using deceitful tactics. Over one third of ‘bad sports’ have found a way to cheat during a pub quiz, and more than one in ten have turned the tides of a Monopoly game with a light-fingered visit to ‘the bank’.
In fact, overall Just 43 per cent said they were completely honest in relationships, careers, quizzes and board games. Britons have confessed to being a nation of cheats.Ī study found more than half the population admit to bending the rules in their favour at one time or another in their lives.
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