The way I see it there are at least two possible ways to &quot;fight&quot; against this, that is if you&#x27;re on the liar&#x27;s side.<p>The first one is to offer to whoever is questioning you a &quot;local maximum&quot; victory, i.e. to pretend to hide a smaller lie compared to the bigger one you&#x27;re supposed to be hiding. In the case you mentioned, you could pretend to be &quot;covering up&quot; the fact that you&#x27;ve been cheating on your SO, hence all the non-concordances related to your past locations. When the guys questioning you finally realize that you&#x27;re lying on something, they&#x27;d think you had been doing so out of fear of not being seen as an unfaithful spouse, when in reality you want to blow things up (just to give an example). The downside to this strategy is that this fails when the &quot;admission criteria&quot; is 0 and 1, you&#x27;re either a liar, which means you&#x27;re out, or not, which means you&#x27;re in. The one mitigating factor is that almost everybody lies all the time.<p>The second strategy is to be so good at this as to believe in your lies&#x2F;stories you&#x27;re telling. This is a little sociopath bordering on schizophrenic, but I&#x27;ve seen some people doing it almost to perfection (granted, the stakes were not very high). The one weak point of this is that you have to know exactly when and how to push the on&#x2F;off switch.