Friendsgiving Friendly Feud Game

Invite your friends over for a competitive game of Friendsgiving Family Feud, or should I say friendly feud? Use our already-created-for-you questions, answers, and PowerPoint templates to make playing as easy as the pie you’ll eat for dessert!

Friendsgiving Family Feud Game

I’ve been sharing Christmas family feud games for a while and even Thanksgiving versions but people have asked me for Friendsgiving ideas, so here’s my take on a Friendsgiving family feud game!

I asked my email list as well as my Facebook fans to give their first answer to a number of Friendsgiving themed family feud questions and the answers were kind of hilarious in some cases and a little shocking in other cases. All of the questions are themed around friends, friendships, and Friendsgiving!

The one thing this is not is a game of Thanksgiving family feud. I already have one so I specifically avoided any questions that were more Thanksgiving themed. If you want those questions, you can grab them in my Thanksgiving family feud post.

What is friendsgiving friendly Feud?

If you’re reading this post, you likely already know what Family Feud is. But if not, let me quickly enlighten you.

Family Feud is one of the best game shows ever. It started forever ago, took a break, and came back. The idea behind Family Feud is that you have two teams who are competing to guess the most popular answers to random questions. In friendly feud, you’re just playing with groups of friends rather than family!

The team who scores the most points at the end of the game wins money and the chance to go win even more money in the fast money round. 

You can watch the video below to see how we played the family feud game at home for Christmas!

Family Feud Game Supplies

The beauty of family feud is that you really need very little to play, especially if you download this PowerPoint template. Here’s what I recommend, but you could also substitute the buzzer with something like a pumpkin or spoon and just do whoever grabs it first. The buzzer is way more fun though so I recommend getting one of those! 

• A buzzer (these work great)
• Poster board (I like to have poster board on hand so a bulk pack like this works great)
• Colored card stock (or other construction paper works too)
• Thick black Sharpie
• Scotch tape or another type of tape (don’t use double-sided or it might mess up the words) 
• List of family feud questions (get the PDF at the bottom of this post)
• Scorecard (we typically use a dry erase board or another poster board) 
• Three red X’s (just print them out on a piece of white card stock) 

Playing at home is super easy and only takes a few minutes to put together! It’s not quite as simple as using the PowerPoints but still fun!

1 – Download the Friendly Feud questions

The first thing you need to do is download the Friendsgiving Friendly Feud questions and answers from the bottom of this post. Don’t show these to anyone other than the person hosting the game.

2 – Choose your Friendly Feud Questions

Once you have the list printed out, decide which questions you’re going to use for the game and how you want to set up your game. The way the gameshow typically works is in four different rounds.

• Round 1 – One question with six answers worth the regular number of points
• Round 2 – One question with six answers, worth the regular number of points
• Round 3 – One question with five answers, worth double the points 
• Round 4 – One question with four answers, worth triple the points 
• Fast Money – five questions, only one team plays (see more details below) 

You can make the choice whether or not you want to actually double and triple the points for round three and four, totally up to you!

You can also do more than four rounds of questions – you’re not trying to fit this game into a 30 minute TV show after all. There are 15 different Friendsgiving family feud questions to choose from. I personally like to do enough questions that everyone who is playing gets to go up for the face off!

3 – Make your Friendly Feud boards

The boards I use are super simple to make. You’ll just need enough poster boards for the number of questions you’re going to ask, or you can put them on the front and on the back of the boards to use half the number of boards!

Here’s how I make them:

1. Write the question at the top of the poster board then all of the answers below along with their point values.
2. Cover them up with strips of paper that are taped to the poster board. I always tape on top of the tape so that it doesn’t accidentally strip off the text if you tape on top of the text.
3. Add the number of the answer to the top of the paper (optional but helps with getting the right one)  

It’s super simple, but it works for me. And it’s actually pretty fun to take the sheets of construction paper off.

4 – Set Up your face-off area

The first part of each question starts with a face-off of one player from each team trying to be the first to buzz in and guess the top answer. We normally put a table or a bar stool at the front of the playing area and put the buzzer in the middle so that both players can easily reach it.

5 – Make your teams

Since I’m assuming you’ll be playing this at Friendsgiving, divide your friends into two even groups. I recommend teams of 4-8 players, just know that eight players will mean a bit longer of a game if you’re going to do eight questions (one for each person). 

While the questions in this game are all family-friendly, there are definitely questions that kids aren’t going to be able to answer (like cameos in the TV show F.R.I.E.N.D.S). I recommend doing a mix of kids and adults if you have both at your party and specifically choosing questions that you think kids will be able to answer!

Have one team go to one side of the room and the other team go to the other side of the room. They should be sitting close enough together they can talk to each other about answers as necessary and far enough away that the other team won’t hear them.

Once you have your teams, your boards, and your buzzer all set up you’re ready to play!

We typically play this game just like the gameshow so that’s what I recommend for you!

1 – Start with a face-off

Choose one person from each to come up and stand on either side of wherever you’ve set the buzzer to do the first face off. The host of the game reads the question and the two players facing off race to hit the buzzer and give an answer. Once they buzz in, they have to give an answer immediately (or in three seconds if you want to do a bit of a grace period).

The goal is to get the top answer on the board because if they don’t, then the other team gets a guess and can try and steal the question by getting an answer higher up on the board. If the first person to buzz in gets the top answer, the team can choose whether they want to pass or play the round. 

Pass if you don’t think you can get all the answers, play if you think you can. If a team passes, the other team has to play the round whether they want to or not. There’s definitely strategy to whether you choose to pass or play!

Change the person who does the face-off each round – just go down the line in the team so everyone gets a turn if you want!

2 – Play the round

Go to the person in the team immediately after the person who did the face off (so it rotates every time just like the face off) and ask them the same question, they have to give an answer in five seconds.

If their answer is on the board, remove the construction paper strip from the board and move on to the next person on the team. If it is not on the board, they get a strike.

Keep going down the line and asking players for answers on the board. If a team gets all of the answers uncovered, they win all the points for the round. If they get three strikes, the question goes over to the other team.

The other team can all confer as a team and come up with one single answer they think is on the board. If it is, they win the points for the round.

3 – Winning the regular rounds

After your designated number of rounds of play, the team with the most points wins unless you’re going to do fast money.

We typically stop there and skip fast money because you’re not really going to be doubling the prize or giving cash anyway but if you want to play fast money, I’ve included instructions below. I’ve also included some question options that would work well for Friendsgiving in the PDF.

If you grab my PowerPoints to use instead of the boards, they work the exact same way – they’ll just look a little different since they are digital!

4 – Friendly Feud Tie Breaker Questions

If you have a tie (very unlikely with the number of points in each question) at the end of the regular rounds, ask the teams to confer together and come up with the answer to one of the questions below. Whoever gets closest wins! 

• How many episodes of the TV show Friends are there? (236)
• What year did the term “Friendsgiving” first appear in print? (2007)
• How many words are in Taylor’s Swift’s friendship bracelet song “You’re On Your Own Kid?” (316)

5 – Playing Fast Money

To play the fast money round, a team must choose two players from their team to play. One player goes outside or in another room where they can’t hear any of their teammate’s answers while they play their turn.

Put 25 seconds on a timer and ask five questions to the first player at rapid speed. They only have 25 seconds to answer so read and answer fast. I recommend having someone from the other team writing down the answers or record them on your phone so you remember. After the 20 seconds is up, go through their answers (while the other person is still out of the room) and give them points for each answer. 

The fast money questions in the PDF have more answers than the normal game questions so that they will end up with points for more answers, hopefully helping them get the score they need!

Have the other person come back into the room and do the same thing with that person – only this time they have 30 seconds to answer. If they give the same answer as their teammate, tell them to try again. Once they’ve gone through all five questions, go through their points as well.

If the two players combined get a total of 200 points, they win the fast money round. 

You could always have an extra little bonus prize available if the team wins fast money. It’s always fun to see but not as necessary for a friendly feud game at home. 

Need more activities to do for Friendsgiving? All of these have questions or options that include things that would be perfect for Friendsgiving!

• Friendsgiving Jeopardy – all friend themed questions, great for Friendsgiving! And if you need more questions, we have a Thanksgiving Jeopardy game too!
• Thanksgiving floor game – there are entire categories about TV shows, friendships, and more! This is a must-play for adults!
• Thanksgiving trivia – lots of questions including ones tied to Friendsgiving!
• Thanksgiving outburst – this one has a ton of categories that could be great for Friendsgiving!
• Thanksgiving dice game – no one said you can’t play a gratitude game at Friendsgiving and this one is really fun!

Game FAQs

Friendsgiving Friendly Feud Questions

Now what you’ve all been waiting for. Here are the 15 questions I asked people about Friendsgiving to give you an idea of what type of questions are included. 

1. Name a celebrity who made a cameo in the TV show F.R.I.E.N.D.S.
2. Name a TV show that’s about a group of friends (other than F.R.I.E.N.D.S.).
3. Name an occasion when someone might want a best friend by their side.
4. Name a famous cartoon friendship duo.
5. Name a place that adults most often make friends.
6. Name a movie that features a group of female friends.
7. Name a song with the word “friend” in the title.
8. Name a reason someone might mute their friends’ group chat.
9. Name something friends might stay up late doing.
10. Name a famous celebrity friendship duo.
11. Name something people might argue about at Friendsgiving.
12. Name something people buy matching versions of with their best friend.
13. Name a popular nickname someone might call their best friend.
14. Name a reality TV show where friendships and alliances are important.
15. Name a reason someone might not get invited back to Friendsgiving next year.

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