Pro-Russian Telegram channels are spreading photos of the board game “Try to explain”, which is sold in Ukraine. In it, players are asked to explain words on cards, in particular “Moskal (Russian) in captivity” and “deoccupation”.

However, in reality, this is a fake, as reported by the VoxCheck project. Using Google's reverse image search function, it was possible to find out that when creating the fake, the propagandists used the visual design of the Russian board game “Say if you can”. After all, the images of the characters in the fake game completely match the original cover. It is likely that the fakers printed the box with the fake game using the illustration of the real game.

Although there are indeed games called “Try to Explain” or other similar board games sold in Ukraine, there are no games with such visual design.

This is not the first fake concerning board games. For example, we previously analyzed how propagandists manipulated the board game “Risk” for their own interests.