How to Play
- Pick a level and press Start. A short 3-2-1 gets you settled.
- Each of the five rounds opens with a plain button that says Wait…. Keep your thumb close but off the screen.
- The button now starts to bluff. It may flash a different word, switch to a different colour, wobble, or even count down from three and then say "…not yet".
- The moment it turns solid green with a white GO!, tap it. Your time in milliseconds pops up on the button.
- After five rounds you get your average. A smaller number means a better result.
Rules
There is exactly one real signal, and it never changes: the same green, with the exact text GO! in white letters. Everything else is a fake. A legend under the game and a small chip above the button always show the real one.
Your round time is counted from the instant the real GO! appears until your tap. Anything slower than 1.5 seconds is counted as 1.5 seconds, and if you never tap, the round still scores 1.5 seconds.
Touching the button before the real GO! is a false start. It shakes, shows Fake! +0.4 s and adds 400 milliseconds to that round, but the round carries on and you can still score. Only two penalties are counted in any one round, so a nervous moment cannot wreck the whole game. Your final score is the average of all five rounds, penalties included.
Tips & Strategy
- Check two things, every time. The real signal needs both the right colour and the right word. Confirm the pair together instead of jumping at the first familiar shape.
- Read the punctuation on hard. "GO" without the exclamation mark and "G0!" written with a zero are both traps. The real one always ends in "!".
- Ignore the countdown. A 3-2-1 feels like a promise, but here it is just another trick. Wait for the green itself.
- Stripes mean no. Every colour except the real green has faint diagonal stripes, which also helps if you find red and green hard to tell apart.
- Accept the odd penalty. One fake tap costs 0.4 seconds. Hesitating for a whole second on every round costs far more, so stay alert rather than frozen.
Game Modes
Easy shows one or two clumsy fakes per round, where both the colour and the word are wrong. Medium throws in two to four, and some get only one detail wrong, such as GO! on red or NO! on green. Hard brings three to six fakes, including the sneakiest ones. Every round, the real GO! arrives somewhere between 1.5 and 5 seconds in.
Solo saves your best average for each level on this device. Two players on one phone split the screen into halves, with the top half turned round for the person sitting opposite. Both of you see the very same fakes at the same moments, so only nerves and speed separate you. On a laptop, press A (bottom) or L (top). With three to eight players, the phone goes round the group and each person plays the identical five rounds.
Play with Friends Online
Choose Play Online, open a room and send the link or code to your group. Up to eight players race at once on exactly the same rounds and fakes. Each phone times its own taps, so a slow network does not change your milliseconds. If a player's connection drops halfway, the host's phone closes the race once the time limit passes.
Fake Button FAQ
What is a good average?
A quick human reaction to something you see is roughly 200 to 300 milliseconds. Fakes slow everyone down because you have to check before you tap, so an average under 450 on easy, or under 550 on hard, is a solid result.
Why did my tap count as a fake?
Any touch before the real GO! appears is a false start, even on the plain Wait… button. Watch for the solid green and the white GO! together.
Is the real button ever a different shade of green?
No. The real GO! uses one fixed green every time. The game never uses a near-identical shade to trick you.
Do all players really get the same fakes?
Yes. The rounds come from a shared starting number, so every player in a duel, a pass-the-phone game or an online room sees the same script.
Does pausing to read the rules affect my time?
On one phone, opening the rules freezes the clock and the fakes together. When you close them, the round continues from where it stopped.
Last updated: 2026-10-01
