Mode one · most common answer
Wonderhop Sky asks a simple, uncomfortable question: what would everyone else say? You get seven survey prompts, 30 seconds each, and one job — find the answer the crowd reaches for first. Reading the room has never been this much fun.
Every day Wonderhop publishes seven survey questions: broad prompts with lots of plausible answers and no single correct one. In Sky, the winning answer is the one with the largest estimated share of people behind it. The game ships each question with a ranked popularity list, and your answer's position on that list is what scores.
The top answer is the prototype: the first thing most people say when the question lands. Rank one is worth a perfect 100 and a clear view from the top of Sky's altitude meter. The further your answer sits from the top, the lower the tier — even when the answer is completely reasonable.
Wonderhop scores a question by rank, not by how clever the answer is. Rank one earns 100 points, rank two earns 90, rank three 82, and the curve keeps easing down through 76, 71, 67, 63, 59 and 56 before settling at a floor of 40. A whole Sky game is therefore out of 700, and a perfect run means seven first-place answers in a row.
| Rank on the popularity list | Points | Tier |
|---|---|---|
| 1 (most common) | 100 | Perfect |
| 2 | 90 | Excellent |
| 3 | 82 | Great |
| 4–7 | 76–63 | OK to Great |
| Deep tail | 53–40 | Weak |
Sky works because we are far more predictable than we like to think. Asked for a type of dog, most people reach for the same handful of breeds. Asked for a hot drink, the same two or three words dominate. Our brains prefer the most familiar example — the one that shows up most often in films, menus, shops and conversation — and familiar examples are shared.
That creates a predictable pyramid on every survey question. A small group of prototype answers collects most of the votes, a middle band of sensible alternatives follows, and a long tail of unusual-but-valid answers sits at the bottom. Sky rewards choosing the pyramid's tip. Abyss rewards the tail. Both games run on the same board.
Asked to imagine a picnic on the moon, the answers that rise are the ones carried over from a picnic on Earth: a blanket, a basket, sandwiches. The winning Sky answer is the one that is obvious before it is clever.
Most people start with the same three ideas: a charger, a battery, a screwdriver. The plausible answer with the biggest share is the one that feels inevitable in about one second. That instant recognition is the signal Sky is asking for.
Playful prompts still have a pyramid. The tip is a colour strongly linked to dragons in stories and toys. The lesson is the same for every Sky question: answer with the first strong association, not the answer that shows off.
Your first instinct is measured against a crowd that also had a first instinct. In Sky, deliberation usually moves you down the list, not up it.
If the question is about fruit, pick the fruit on every supermarket poster. The most famous example is normally the most shared answer.
One concrete noun beats a description. The autocomplete and the judge both prefer the plain version of the thing.
Your favourite band, your hometown dish and your hobby are all real answers — but they are rare ones. Sky is not the mode for personality.
The category tag narrows the pyramid. Use it before you type: the most common answer in a category is often a single, obvious example.
Abyss uses the same seven survey questions as Sky, but flips the scoring: there, the rarest valid answer wins. That makes a good Sky answer a poor Abyss answer and vice versa. Learning to switch between the two is the real skill of the popularity boards, and it takes about four games to feel natural.
Sky is the most common answer game in Wonderhop. You get seven survey questions and, for each one, you try to give the answer the largest share of people would give. The most popular answer on the board scores a perfect 100.
Every question ranks its accepted answers by popularity. Rank one earns 100 points, then 90, 82 and a curve down to a floor of 40. Seven questions make a game out of 700, and the four daily games make 2,800.
Yes. Sky and Abyss share the same seven survey questions each day, which is why the same answer can be perfect in one game and the worst pick in the other. Only the goal changes.
Yes. A new survey board arrives every day at 00:00 UTC, and everyone in the world plays the same seven-question board. You can replay earlier boards from the free archive.
Yes. Zen mode turns the 30-second countdown off in settings. Sky still scores by rank, so a relaxed run is a real run.
Seven questions. Thirty seconds each. Find the answer everyone else gives.