Majority

Majority is a free online majority vote game where the right answer is whatever everyone else said. Each day brings ten light, divisive questions: would you rather dilemmas, food fights, everyday habits and the internet's great debates. Is a hot dog a sandwich? Is cereal a soup? One horse-sized duck or a hundred duck-sized horses? You pick your own answer, then you guess what everyone thinks: which answer did most people pick? The game is a 1970s TV game-show set, and a tote board of warm light bulbs counts up the real split the moment you lock in. It runs in your browser with no download and a day takes about a minute and a half, which makes it one of our favourite quick games.

The trick is in the title: predict the crowd, not the truth. You might be sure that a hot dog is not a sandwich, but the question is what the room thinks, and the room often surprises. Every question has two to four answer plates and one nine-second clock for both of your picks: first you tap your own answer, which gets a red YOU tab, then the sign flips to "What did most people pick?" and you tap again. Then the reveal: each plate fills with lit bulbs up to its share of the vote, the winner's border runs a chase of lights, and a stamp says READ THE ROOM or MISREAD. Under every plate a thin yellow strip shows how the crowd itself predicted, so you also learn when most people are wrong about something as small as how to fold a towel.

Everyone gets the same ten questions each day, and the split you see is the real vote of everyone who played that day's ten. Early in the day you may be one of the first, and the board says so: you still see the first handful of votes and an early read, and checking back later shows how the room settled. At the end, a score card sums up your day: how many times you read the room out of ten, where that puts you against everyone else ("better than 78% of the room"), the room's answer to every question and the day's most divisive one. The share button turns it into a short line of dots, read and misread, that you can send to friends, a bit like a daily puzzle result.

Majority is not about a high score. Its own score only counts the questions you answered before the clock ran out, and the result that matters, how well you know your crowd, comes from everyone's votes. That makes it a relaxed, social this or that game for coffee breaks, group chats and settling arguments: nobody can be wrong about pineapple on pizza, but you can be wrong about everybody else. The questions are original, family-friendly and harmless, with nothing about politics or real people, and there are around two hundred of them in rotation, from the would you rather questions of a long car ride to definitions that start arguments (is a burrito a wrap?).

It plays the same on every screen. On a phone, tap an answer plate for your answer, then tap again for the crowd's; on a computer, click the plates or press 1 to 4 on the keyboard, and Space or Enter to move on after a reveal. You will find it among our casual games, casual games for adults, mobile games and PC games.