Survey Says: a free online game show for friends, family or your team

The classic family game show works because every contestant is guessing what everyone else would say. This version needs no host, no studio and no survey data: your own room is the survey. Every question goes to everyone at once, and the answers people really give become the board.

How to play Survey Says online

1. Create a free room and share the link. It runs in the browser on phones and laptops, with no account and no download.
2. A prompt appears, such as "Name something you find in a kitchen drawer."
3. Everyone types a short answer at the same time. You have 25 seconds, and the answer locks in when you press the button. Nobody sees anyone else's answer yet.
4. The reveal ranks the board. Matching answers are grouped, the most popular answer climbs to the top with the names of the people who said it, and your own answer is highlighted.

Scoring

• Up to 400 points for matching others: your points are 400 times the share of the other players who gave your answer.
• 100 bonus points if yours was the most popular answer on the board. If two answers tie for first, both get it.
• Nothing for a one-of-a-kind answer. That is deliberate: a joke answer nobody else gives cannot beat the sensible one everybody does.

Three questions make a round, and the default is two rounds. The best player reads the room, which is the same skill the TV format rewards.

How matching works

People do not type the same words, so the game compares answers the way a person would. It ignores capital letters, punctuation, small words like "the" and "of", plurals and word order, so "Phone charger", "chargers, phone" and "the phone charger!" are one answer. Longer answers also forgive a one-letter typo. Short words must match exactly, so "dessert" and "desert" stay separate.

108 Survey Says questions

Every prompt in the game is fine to say out loud at work or at a family gathering: no drinking, dating, politics or anyone's looks. These are the ones the game draws from, so you can also use them in person with a whiteboard.

At work and school

• Name something people do on a first day at a new job.
• Name a reason people are late to work.
• Name a thing people complain about at the office.
• Name something that makes a meeting better.
• Name something that makes a meeting worse.
• Name a job kids dream of having.
• Name a reason to call in sick.
• Name something you hear in an elevator.
• Name something you do to relax after work.
• Name a thing people do on a video call they should not.
• Name something you see on a desk.
• Name something a teacher says.
• Name something people do on a lunch break.
• Name a thing that happens at a school assembly.
• Name something people do to look busy at work.
• Name a reason people get up from their desk.

Food and drink

• Name a food you eat at a barbecue.
• Name something you find in a kitchen drawer.
• Name a popular pizza topping.
• Name a snack you eat at the movies.
• Name a drink you order at a coffee shop.
• Name a breakfast food.
• Name a thing you buy at the supermarket every week.
• Name an ice cream flavor.
• Name a thing that is always in your fridge.
• Name a fruit that is hard to peel.
• Name something you put on a sandwich.
• Name a vegetable kids refuse to eat.
• Name something that goes with peanut butter.
• Name a thing people ask for at a restaurant.
• Name a thing you put in a salad.
• Name a way to cook an egg.
• Name a type of tea or coffee.
• Name a kind of sandwich.
• Name a thing people take to a picnic.
• Name a candy or sweet people love.

Travel and getaways

• Name something you take on a road trip.
• Name something you pack for a beach holiday.
• Name a place people go on a first date.
• Name an animal you see at the zoo.
• Name a holiday people look forward to.
• Name a famous landmark.
• Name a thing you do on a long flight.
• Name a place people go on holiday.
• Name something you do at a campfire.
• Name a place you wait for a long time.
• Name a thing that is annoying on a plane.
• Name a place people hide a spare key.
• Name a famous city.
• Name a thing you take camping.
• Name something you do on a road trip to pass the time.
• Name a thing you see at an airport.

Everyday life and just for fun

• Name something you do before bed.
• Name a famous cartoon character.
• Name something that is hard to wake up for.
• Name something you see at a birthday party.
• Name something that gets lost all the time.
• Name a thing people do while waiting in line.
• Name a sport you watch on TV.
• Name something you do when you cannot sleep.
• Name a thing you carry in your bag every day.
• Name something people forget when leaving the house.
• Name something you do on a rainy day.
• Name something people post on social media.
• Name a gift people give at a wedding.
• Name something people do at a party when they know nobody.
• Name a type of weather people complain about.
• Name something you wear in winter.
• Name a thing people do at the gym.
• Name something that comes in a pair.
• Name a game you played as a kid.
• Name a superhero.
• Name a thing you lose in the couch.
• Name a color people paint their walls.
• Name something that makes noise at night.
• Name a reason to stay home on the weekend.
• Name a thing you can do with a paperclip.
• Name something people say when they answer the phone.
• Name a thing you check before leaving the house.
• Name a thing you do when you are bored.
• Name a famous duo.
• Name a thing people take photos of.
• Name a kind of music people play at a party.
• Name something you do to stay awake.
• Name a pet people keep at home.
• Name something you do first thing in the morning.
• Name a thing you do when you win.
• Name a type of shoe.
• Name a reason to go to the store at midnight.
• Name a thing people collect.
• Name something you do on a Sunday.
• Name a thing you see at a wedding.
• Name something people put off doing.
• Name a thing that smells good.
• Name something kids do on the playground.
• Name a movie genre.
• Name a thing that makes you laugh.
• Name something that is red.
• Name a thing you do when you meet someone new.
• Name something that comes in a box.
• Name a thing you do on New Year's Eve.
• Name something you check on your phone first thing.
• Name something you do when it snows.
• Name a board game people play at family gatherings.
• Name a sound that wakes you up.
• Name a thing that is hard to get right the first time.
• Name something you carry in your pocket.
• Name a thing you do when you hear good news.

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Last updated: 31 October 2026