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by jimmar 449 days ago
I entered "meat" and it matched "chicken" as a correct answer. "Ham" was also a correct answer that I failed to guess. In my mind, both "chicken" and "ham" fall under the "meat" category. If a guess is not specific enough to differentiate between two possible correct responses, I think you should mark it incorrect.
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I did the same thing, based on the notion that pizza was fine, I didn't think I needed to go more specific. It was odd to see chicken get replaced by my guess of meat, but I didn't think to try more specific meats after that guess.
very helpful - you're right in that chicken / ham are the same level of specificity so having meat as the right answer (and having chicken, ham, etc. count as correct) would make more sense here.
To be fair, some of the ways the real Family Feud groups answers are really weird and seemingly incorrect.
It's what people on the street say. I was watching Kimmel some weeks back and they asked people on the street "how chickens mate". And people were so oblivious (i.e. someone said copulation takes minutes) on basic facts of life, geography, etc.

Insta and TikTok have done a great deal of damage to the youth...

Interesting! Noted. Will look into improving the synonym match...
hah that's not too bad. mine matched poptart to pizza.
hahaha that's hilarious (... fixing this)