Majority (Answer Wall)

About Majority (Answer Wall)

Majority is a small daily browser game built around the question of what most people would choose. Each day brings five this-or-that questions, the same five for every player, under a game number and the date. The questions are everyday ones: automatic or manual car, hardback or paperback, sausage roll or steak bake.

Each question is played in two steps. First you pick the option you would really choose. Then you guess which option most people picked. The reveal then shows the answer, usually from a published poll with a link to its source. Once at least ten players have answered a question, the split among Majority's own players is shown as well. A question with neither a published result nor enough answers yet is shown but not scored, and the game says so rather than making numbers up.

At the end you get a score out of the scored questions and a share line in the style of Wordle, one square per question: green for a right guess, red for a wrong one, white for one not scored. There is no account; your guesses and score are kept in your browser.

The game is run by Paul Bappoo as the demonstration app for Answerwall, an ad format in which a visitor skips an ad by typing a short answer to one question. In Majority that break appears once, after the third question. Answering it unlocks a bonus question taken from a published poll; skipping it unlocks nothing. The site describes the whole thing as an early test.

Majority suits players who like crowd and poll games such as Daily Herd or Choizzle but want something that takes a minute or two and asks only for a choice between two options.

How to play Majority (Answer Wall)

1. Open the game; today's date and five progress bars sit at the top.
2. Read the first question and tap the option you would really choose.
3. On the next screen, tap the option you think most people picked.
4. Read the reveal: the published poll result or the players' split, and whether your guess was right.
5. Repeat for all five questions; after the third, answer the short ad question if you want the bonus question.
6. See your score and copy or share the line of coloured squares.

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Tips

• Your own pick and your guess are separate: answer honestly first, then think about the wider public rather than people like you.
• Many questions are taken from published polls, so the majority is that poll's sample, often a national one, not the game's players.
• Questions with too few answers are not scored, so a score of 3/3 can be a full day's result.
• Typing a real answer in the ad break is the only way to get the bonus question.

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