Guides

Longer reads about the Florida Man phenomenon, how the game is built and how to get better at it.

• The best real Florida Man headlines, verified Fifteen real Florida Man headlines with the outlet, the year and a link to the article for each one, chosen from the most-upvoted stories in our library - and what makes them read as real.
• The Florida Man birthday challenge, explained How the "Florida Man plus your birthday" challenge started in 2019, why every date of the year has a headline, how to search properly, and how to tell whether the headline you found is real.
• Florida Man by the numbers What roughly 370 verified Florida Man headlines and the first days of play tell us - topics, years, sources, headline length, and how badly people guess.
• How to spot a fake Florida Man headline Seven tells that separate a real Florida Man news headline from one written by an AI, based on what players get wrong in the game.
• How we verify every headline The pipeline behind the game - where real headlines are collected, how they are checked and filtered, how the fakes are written and judged, and how pairs are retired.
• What is a Florida Man? Where the Florida Man meme comes from, why Florida produces so many of these stories, and what the Sunshine Law has to do with it.