FAMILY FEUD 26

SURVEY SAYS...

A daily survey-guessing door where everyone on your BBS plays the exact same board — so the scoreboard is a real competition instead of a list of who got lucky. Three survey rounds, three strikes each, then Fast Money.

The board is built from your BBS name plus the date. No two boards run the same daily game, and a given date always produces the same questions — so a caller making up Tuesday gets precisely the board the early birds got. 14,600 questions in the bank: about five years of daily play before a single one repeats.

The Board

Click any answer to flip it back over.

We asked 100 sysops: name something you want in a door game.

X X X — and that's the whole game, really.

In Play

A Family Feud 26 survey round in progress: the question across the top, eight answer boxes with point values, score and strikes along the bottom. — a survey round — three strikes and the rest is revealed

The Family Feud 26 main menu, showing today's top three scores, the month leader, and the all-time points leader. — the menu — you see who you're chasing before you play

How It Plays

A question comes up with its answers hidden. Type a guess; matching answers flip over and pay whatever the survey gave them. Three strikes ends the round and reveals what you missed. Clear a whole board and take the sweep bonus. Then Fast Money: five questions, one answer each, hit the target and take the bonus.

The matcher is deliberately forgiving, and most of what it knows came from people complaining that it should have taken their answer. It handles typos and letter swaps, singular and plural (including person/people and wife/wives), verb forms (listening = listen, rapper = raps), hyphens, a few hundred synonyms, and category answers — typing gun hits an answer of "Weapon", rat hits "Rodents". It won't let anyone cheese the board the other way: typing "animal" does not claim a "Dog" answer.

One game per caller per day. Miss a day and you can make it up from the calendar; from the 23rd the rest of the month unlocks so callers heading out of town can play ahead. Every day scores exactly once.

Features

Daily board seeded from your BBS name — everyone competes on identical questions
14,600 questions; roughly five years before a repeat at default settings
Three survey rounds plus Fast Money, all configurable
Make-up days calendar and configurable play-ahead
Five scoreboard views: today, daily bests, hall of champions, best games ever, career points
Per-guess timers for rounds and Fast Money — on by default, and the sysop sets the seconds or switches them off
ANSI music with SyncTERM auto-detection; speaks both the SyncTERM and classic dialects, and remembers each caller's choice
Telnet IAC filtering built in — no phantom keypresses on raw sockets
Plain-text data files. No database, no runtime, no DLLs
Win64, Win32, Linux x86-64, MSDOS, and Raspberry Pi binaries included

Download

▼ FEUD.ZIP ▼ v2026.8.9 — Win64 / Win32 / Linux / Raspberry Pi / MSDOS question banks, config, and sysop.txt included

Sysop Quick Start

; unpack, edit feud.cfg (set BBSNAME), then for example:

; Mystic (Windows):
C:\BBS\DOORS\FEUD\FEUD64.EXE -DC:\BBS\TEMP%3\DOOR32.SYS

; Mystic (Linux):
/bbs/doors/feud/feud -D/bbs/temp%3/door32.sys

; Local console test:
feud -L

Reads DOOR32.SYS, DOOR.SYS, and DORINFO*.DEF. Set BBSNAME before go-live and leave it alone afterwards — it seeds the daily puzzle. Full setup notes, every config key, and troubleshooting are in sysop.txt inside the zip.

FAMILY FEUD 26 v2026.8.9  [Door Game]
Daily survey-guessing door. Everyone on
your BBS plays the SAME board each day -
real competition, real leaderboards.
14,600 questions = 5 YEARS no repeats.
3 rounds + Fast Money, make-up days,
play-ahead, 5 scoreboard views, optional
timers, ANSI music w/ SyncTERM autodetect.
DOS/Win32/Win64/Linux/Pi. No DB, no DLLs.
By Alexander Corris -- bbswordle.com