Solo Mode and Custom Topics: Practice Rounds and Themed Boards

Multiplayer is the heart of a Feud night, but two features get far less attention than they deserve: Solo mode, which lets you play boards on your own, and Custom topics, which generate a themed round from a single line of text. Together they turn the game into a five-minute practice tool, a way to preview questions before an event, and a generator for boards about literally anything. Here is how they work.

Solo mode

From the lobby, click Solo Play. Choose between Classic (questions from the 8,700+ survey bank) and Custom Topic, pick 2 to 10 rounds, and start. There is no Face-Off and no opposing team — each round simply presents a board, and you type answers with the same 25-second timer and the same three-layer answer judge as multiplayer. Three strikes end the round; clearing the board banks every point.

• Scoring: your score is the total of every answer you reveal across all rounds. A perfect board is worth roughly 100 points, so a 10-round game tops out near 1,000.
• Pace: with nobody else to wait for, a round takes about two minutes. Ten rounds is a satisfying coffee-break session.
• Purpose: solo play is the fastest way to learn what survey answers “feel” like. Our strategy guide recommends it before your first competitive game.

Custom topics

Custom topics are available in Solo mode and, for hosts, in any multiplayer waiting room via Custom Questions (Beta). You type a short topic and an AI model writes a survey-style question with a board of answers and point values in the same format as the classic bank. The board is generated fresh each time, so the same topic can produce different questions on different days.

Writing a topic that produces a good board

• Give it a situation, not just a noun. “Camping” is vague; “things that go wrong on a camping trip” gives the model a clear survey to imagine.
• Keep it relatable. The model generates answers the way a crowd would; niche fandoms and inside jokes produce thin boards.
• Say who the crowd is if it matters. “What teenagers spend money on” and “what retirees spend money on” are different boards.
• Mind the tone. Light, everyday topics make the best game boards. Sensitive subjects tend to produce awkward answers.

Topic ideas that work well

• “Things people do the night before a flight”
• “Reasons a toddler is crying”
• “Excuses for being on your phone at dinner”
• “Things you hear at a football match”
• “Foods people pretend to like”

Accounts, stats and the leaderboard

You never need an account to play. If you do create one (it is free), two things happen: your nickname is reserved so nobody else can use it, and your results are recorded. Multiplayer stats cover games won and lost, rounds won and lost, correct and wrong guesses, successful steals and total points. Solo results are counted separately so practice runs never inflate the competitive leaderboard. Signed-in players can switch the leaderboard between multiplayer and solo views and sort by any column.

A five-minute practice routine

1. Start a 2-round Classic solo game. On each board, say your first instinct out loud before typing — then check whether it was the top answer.
2. Start a 2-round Custom game on a topic you know well. Notice how the generated top answers are still the boring, obvious ones.
3. Look at your final score and, if you are signed in, how it moved you on the solo leaderboard.
4. Now go and win a multiplayer game.