Examples of questions might be "Name a famous George", "Tell me a popular family holiday spot", "Name something you do at school", or "Name a slang name for policemen".

Whoever guesses the more popular answer in the survey has the option to play the question or pass it to the other family.

Per tradition, the audience yells each unrevealed answer in a choral response from lowest to highest.

The first family to score 300 points or more wins the game and goes on to play the Fast Money round.

One family member leaves the stage and is placed in a soundproof booth, while the other is given 20 seconds to answer five questions.

[7] Airing in a 6:00 pm timeslot, Family Feud was originally broadcast five nights a week from Mondays to Fridays; an additional episode was added on Sundays from February 2015.

[9] The decision to simulcast the show on Eleven and One was to gain as much exposure as possible during the first week of broadcast.

[10][14] Several media buyers and news websites criticised Ten's decision to merge the ratings.

One media buyer told news website Mumbrella that "It looks like Ten are trying to pad the numbers when they should just be honest.

"[11] Glenn Dyer of Crikey wrote that "it's not against the rules, but it is poor form" and believed that the move was "probably to try and boost the audience figures" for the show.

Dyer also questioned whether Ten being "scared of failure" is the reason they are "afraid to separate the figures".

[13] Ten's chief of programming officer Beverly McGarvey responded to the criticism saying, "There is no 'padding' of numbers at all.

"[11] David Knox of TV Tonight added, "Ten appears to have painted itself into a corner.

It has now run the simulcast for so many weeks that pens will be poised the minute it disappears and those numbers drop.

"[15] Ten's chief programming officer Beverly McGarvey said in 2015 that there were no plans to end the simulcasting, saying "People engage with Family Feud and it works as a triple test.

"[14] In January 2015 Ten announced that the show had given the network its biggest audience in the 6:00 pm weekday timeslot in more than five years.

[14][16] In an interview with TV Tonight, the Nine Network's head of programming Andrew Backwell felt that Ten were "getting a bit ahead of themselves" on calling Family Feud a ratings success in that timeslot as its ratings are derived from a simulcast on Ten, Eleven and One.

[19] On 22 May 2020, Network Ten announced a revived Family Feud 10-part prime-time special series to give back to frontline workers[6] which aired from Sunday, 16 August 2020.

All Star Family Feud was a spin off series which sees celebrities compete in teams to raise money for their chosen charity.

With a special theme for each episode, the contestant compete against the top 100 survey responses to win a prize on behalf of a listener.

In October 2014, Family Feud came under fire from various media outlets for asking the question, "Name something people think is a woman's job."