How Decode the Ballot works

How rounds are made

The ballot wording is quoted exactly as voters saw it. The right answer comes from an official, nonpartisan analysis: the Texas Legislative Council's analyses for Texas, and the Legislative Analyst's Office and Secretary of State voter guides for California. The wrong options are written to be plausible readings of the same wording that the analysis rules out, so the round tests the wording, not trivia.

Fair play and player figures

• Every round has one known answer from a public record, with its source and the date it was checked.
• Answers stay on the server until you guess, and the server keeps the clock.
• Player percentages appear only once an item has at least 100 counted answers. They describe players of this game, not the public. It is not a poll.
• Each network counts at most 3 answers per item, only answers from US networks count, and hosting-provider networks never count. None of this changes your own score or streak.