What Survey Showdown is
A survey question, six hidden answers, a whole board of your own to fill. Answers bank points, wrong guesses cost 3. Three boards — play a friend or go ranked.
The show this nods to makes one of you stand and watch; here the boards run in parallel. Every answer you find lands on your board alone, your opponent’s score ticks up in the corner without saying which slots they hold, and the round break lays both boards side by side to show who found what.
You type free text and the matcher meets you halfway. Case, accents and plurals are folded, every answer carries a bag of aliases — “loo” lands “Go to the bathroom” — and typing the heart of a phrase is enough, so “weather” lands “Cooler weather”. A miss costs three points, your score never drops below zero, and there are no strikes.
It is also one of the four ladder games. Queue solo and the seat opposite is filled at once — by the recorded run of a real player near your rating when one exists, wrong guesses and all — and every result moves you up or down the same Bronze-to-Legend tiers as the other three.
From our tables
750+ games finished
Games of Survey Showdown, played to the end on Table Party between 16 August and 24 September 2026.
4 minutes on average
How long a finished game of Survey Showdown really takes here, from the first move to the final score.
How to play Survey Showdown
- Find the six hidden answers. Popular answers score more.
- You BOTH get the whole board. Land an answer and it flips for you with its survey points.
- A wrong guess costs 3 from that board’s haul — a board never dips below zero, and banked boards are safe.
- Your rival’s board stays hidden — you only see their score move, until the reveal shows who found what.
- Sixty seconds a board, three boards. Most points takes the match.
How to win at Survey Showdown
Say the obvious thing first
The top answer is whatever a hundred people said first, so say it — the clock is the real opponent.
Type the heart, not the sentence
The matcher listens for the core of the phrase, so “weather” lands “Cooler weather” while you save five seconds.
Misses are cheap, silence is dear
A wrong guess is minus three; ten seconds spent polishing a guess costs more than that.
Answer the survey, not the question
The board holds what most people said, not what is true — the correct answer and the popular one are different skills.
Don’t trust the suggestions
The type-ahead is seeded with decoys as well as answers, so a suggestion is a spelling aid, never a confirmation.
A repeat is free
Re-typing an answer you already hold costs nothing, so guess freely instead of scrolling your finds.
Questions about Survey Showdown
Can my opponent steal my answers?
No. Both players hold the full six-answer board and a find lands only on your own. Mid-round you see their score move, never their slots — the boards are only compared at the round break.
Are there strikes or a fast-money round?
Neither. A wrong guess costs three points, zero is the floor, and the winner is simply the higher total after three rounds. A level total is a shared win.
How exact does my typing have to be?
Forgiving. Spelling is folded, plurals and a leading “the” or “my” are ignored, common aliases are accepted, and the heart of a phrase lands it — unless the fragment could mean two answers, in which case it lands neither.
How does the ranked queue work?
You are matched against the recorded run of a real player near your rating — replayed guess by guess, misses included — or a tuned synthetic when none exists. Ratings start at 1000 and climb six tiers from Bronze to Legend.
Is Survey Showdown free?
Yes. Every game on Table Party is free, with no accounts, no adverts and nothing to buy.
How many people do you need for Survey Showdown?
Exactly 2 — Survey Showdown is built for that number and no other.
Do we need to download anything?
No. One person opens the site and starts a room; everybody else joins by typing the room code on their own phone. Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for.
Can we play Survey Showdown over a video call?
Yes. Share the room code in the chat and play with the call running — everything private stays on each player’s own phone.
