Majority Game

What is the Majority daily game?

Majority is a social prediction game built around five questions. You type a response rather than choosing from a fixed list, trying to anticipate the answer other players will give. Its original home is majoritygame.com, and Playlin credits the game to Eliass ElAlaoui.^[1][2][3]

The useful distinction is between your answer and your prediction. A prompt can invite an opinion, association or familiar example without having a single objectively correct response. The game evaluates how well you read the room, so knowing a more obscure fact does not automatically improve the result.^[2]

How a daily round works

Read the prompt, enter the answer you expect the crowd to choose, and submit it. Repeat across the daily five, then inspect the recap. The official help says small spelling variations and plurals can be treated as the same response; nevertheless, a short, recognizable answer is easier to communicate than a qualified sentence.^[2]

For an invented example, imagine a prompt asking for a food associated with birthdays. You might personally prefer a particular dessert while predicting that a more conventional answer will attract more responses. That is the decision to make before typing. This example is not a current Majority question, and it does not assert what today’s crowd has chosen.^[2]

Read the result as a crowd prediction

The recap shows your five responses alongside how the room answered, including how many majority picks you matched. Reactions add another way to respond to the answers. Treat the result as a picture of a particular room, rather than as evidence that an association is universally correct.^[2]

For sharing without spoiling a fresh deck, use a compact result card when offered, or share only your overall result. A screenshot containing the question and visible responses gives a friend more information than a score alone. Wait until everyone has played before comparing the actual words.^[2]

Archive, custom quizzes and the percentage game

The current official interface includes an archive of past decks, a Create a Majority option and a Guess the percentage mode. The archive explains that past decks open once and that the next date remains unavailable until local midnight. These are separate choices from simply replaying today’s five prompts.^[2]

A custom Majority lets a host write five questions and distribute one link. Friends can respond at different times, without gathering in a live room; the resulting board changes as the group answers. In the percentage mode, the crowd’s answer is already displayed and your task becomes estimating how large its share was, using a percentage control.^[2]

A practical prediction strategy

Before submitting, ask which level of specificity the prompt invites. A broad question usually calls for a familiar category member; an overly detailed response may express your knowledge while missing the shared association. Consider the actual people likely to be playing, rather than treating your own first association as a census of everyone else.^[2]

Keep the reasoning brief. Think of two plausible responses, choose the one you expect to be more widely recognizable, and move on. After the recap, compare where your assumptions differed from the room. That feedback is more useful than inventing a universal list of answers guaranteed to win future decks.^[2]

Majority or Moonshot?

Choose Majority when the attraction is predicting the common response. Moonshot deliberately changes the objective between common answers, unusual accepted answers and a requested rarity level. The two games can make a useful pair, but carry the round’s scoring objective with you: an answer that suits one format may be a poor choice in the other.^[2][4]