The Landslide Report: 25 Things the Crowd Agreed On This Fall

November 2026 · Crowd Data

Ask a hundred people an open-ended question with no options to pick from, and you'd expect a mess. Mostly you get one. But a few times a week, something else happens: nearly everyone types the same thing, independently, as if they'd rehearsed. We went through every daily Lyre game from September 1 to November 8, 2026 and pulled out the landslides.

The ground rules: 68 completed games, 680 questions, a little over 4,100 plays. Players answer in their own words and we group equivalent answers together — nobody is handed a list. We only counted questions with at least 60 players, and a "landslide" means the top answer took 80% or more of the room. Of 285 qualifying questions, 33 cleared that bar, and 9 cleared 90%. Here they are, sorted by how badly everyone agreed.

The 90% Club — one answer, basically no dissent

Name a famous telescope or space observatory → Hubble, 95%. 62 of 65 players. The other three split between two observatories and a mistake.

• Are you voting in November? → Yes, 95% (74 of 78). Take it with the grain of salt any self-report deserves, but the crowd at least intends to.
• Name a civil rights leader → Martin Luther King Jr., 94% (77 of 82). Five other names got one vote each.
• Name a streaming service most households subscribe to → Netflix, 94% (59 of 63). YouTube got two.
• One story to go up: elevator or stairs? → Stairs, 94% (72 of 77). Five people will wait for the elevator and they know who they are.
• Any interest in running a full marathon? → No, 92% (68 of 74). Six yeses. Good luck to them.
• Name an NFL team named after a bird → Eagles, 91% (72 of 79). Seahawks 3, Ravens 2, Falcons and Cardinals apparently don't exist.
• Should marijuana be legal at the federal level? → Yes, 90% (74 of 82).

The 85–89% tier — brand loyalty and bedtime

This is where the consumer landslides live. When the crowd has a default brand, it's not close:

• Music streaming service people are most loyal to → Spotify, 89%. Apple Music 3 votes out of 66.
• Restaurant chain with the best fries → McDonald's, 89% (66 of 74). Chick-fil-A 4, Five Guys 3. Not a debate.
• Name a bedtime story for kids → Goodnight Moon, 89% (57 of 64).
• Name a snack people cannot stop eating → Chips, 88% (59 of 67). Popcorn a distant 7.
• Name a reason babies cry → Hungry, 88% (66 of 75). Tired and the diaper situation tied at 3.
• Do you decorate for fall or Halloween? → Yes, 88% (58 of 66).
• Do (or would) you let your dog sleep in your bed? → Yes, 86% (75 of 87). The 12 holdouts have very clean sheets.
• Jordan or LeBron? → Jordan, 86% (61 of 71). Online this is a forever war. In a room of 71 people it's a rout.
• Toilet paper: over the front or from the back? → Front, 85% (58 of 68). Settled, finally.
• Name the best girl group → Spice Girls, 85% (58 of 68). Destiny's Child 5.
• Name a sport that takes years to master → Golf, 85% (58 of 68).
• Something people do at a movie theater that annoys everyone → Talking, 85% (57 of 67). Phones 9. Clapping got one vote, from someone who has clearly been through something.
• Be honest — do you give out candy on Halloween night? → Yes, 85% (62 of 73).
• Is it okay to wear the same shoes every day? → Yes, 85% (62 of 73).

The 80–84% tier — still landslides, just with a visible minority

• Name a weight class in boxing → Heavyweight, 84% (79 of 94). Lightweight 7.
• Name a country famous for its mountains → Switzerland, 84% (73 of 87). Nepal, home of the actual tallest one, got 11.
• City known for bachelor parties → Las Vegas, 84%. Nashville 7, Miami 3.
• Something people do during a commercial break → Use the bathroom, 83% (72 of 87).
• Is it okay to regularly go to bed before your partner? → Yes, 82% (60 of 73).
• Something you find in a doctor's waiting room → Magazines, 82% (76 of 93). Six people said "chairs," which is technically the better answer.
• Best board game of all time → Monopoly, 82% (49 of 60). Chess got two votes. Monopoly ends friendships and the crowd does not care.
• Something a Michael Jackson impersonator would need → Sequined glove, 81% (64 of 79).
• Best chess piece → Queen, 81% (62 of 77). King 8. Knight 3.
• Physical book or e-reader? → Physical book, 80% (66 of 82). This was the softest landslide on the list, and still four to one.

What the landslides have in common

Look at the list and a pattern shows up. The 90%+ questions are almost all category defaults: the one telescope, the one civil rights leader, the one bird team. The 80s are habits and preferences that feel personal but turn out to be nearly universal — dog in the bed, stairs for one floor, physical books. The crowd thinks it's quirky. It isn't.

For anyone who plays Lyre, this is the whole strategy. The average question this fall had a top answer worth about 49% of the room and ten distinct answers competing. On a landslide question, the obvious answer is worth nearly double that — so the game isn't about being clever, it's about recognizing which questions have a default and then having the nerve to type the boring answer. "Hubble." "Netflix." "Chips." Zero style points, maximum score.

The flip side is just as real. For every question where 85% said Spotify, there was one where the room split exactly in half on pizza-with-a-fork — we collected those in the coin-flip questions. Knowing which kind you're looking at is the skill. There's no right answer; there's just the room, and whether you can hear it.

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