Guess what the room will say

Majority Rules

You are not trying to be right. You are trying to think like the room.

Everyone writes one short answer and tries to match what most other players will choose. Match the majority and you score. Be the odd one out and you don't.

4–20 players
20-35 minutes

Create Majority Rules

Free to set up. Start with Majority Rules, then choose 3 games for A$10 or all 6 for A$15 before you pay.

A printed page of Majority Rules question cards

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How to play

Read a question, write one short answer, reveal together. That's the whole round.

Step 1
Read a question
One person reads a card from the deck, then passes it on for the next round.
Step 2
Write your answer
Write the short answer you think most people will choose. Names and titles can be a few words.
- Priya+1
  Pavlova
- Tom+1
  Pavlova
- Sam+1
  Pavlova
- Ava0 points
  Halloumi
Biggest matching group: Pavlova
Step 3
Reveal and score
Everyone shows their answer together. If yours is part of the biggest matching group, you get a point. If you're one of the odd ones out, you get nothing. First to 8 points wins.

Looking for generic questions first? See 60 free Majority Rules questions.

Some questions could only be about your group.

Most party games ask questions broad enough to work for anyone. Your deck mixes questions built from the names, places, favourites, habits and stories you give us with strong general questions, so the whole room can always match each other, even a newer friend who has never heard the story.

A printed Majority Rules question card about the guest of honour

You think you know the room. Then the answers land.

The gap is the game

What you would write and what the room writes are rarely the same. Every reveal shows how well you read them.

Newer friends are not at a disadvantage

You score by predicting the room, not by remembering the past, so a plus-one can beat the oldest friend.

Every reveal starts an argument

Somebody always ends up defending halloumi against a table of pavlova.

Questions

Is Majority Rules trivia or a test of how well we know each other?

No. There is no correct fact you need to know, and you do not need years of shared history to compete. You score by predicting what most of the room will write, so a newer friend or plus-one can beat somebody who has known the group for years.

How personalised is the deck?

Your deck has 36 questions. Details you share become questions when they make a good Majority Rules round, and the rest are strong general questions designed to keep answers easy to understand and easy to match. We do not force a personal reference into every round just to increase the count.