This page documents information about Family Feud
. Many of the tricks demonstrated here are near impossible in real time and documented for the purposes of creating Tool-assisted Speedruns.
The following information is from Zanoab:
All the questions and answers are encoded in ascii. Using the second image as a reference:
Red boxes contain the question. I believe the first copy is used as a buffer for displaying the text.
Blue boxes contain the inputted answers. The first is the answer the computer will submit and the second is a buffer for the player's answer.
Green box contains the point value to display for each answer. Fixed size of two digits (or chars) each.
Black box contains the answers. Rules for parsing and reading below.
Here are the rules I figured out so far and have confirmed:
\x00 terminates the answer.
'\' terminates a possible answer (player can match the preceding or the following answer).
' ' (space) are mandatory spaces.
';' (semi-colon) are treated as optional spaces.
Upper-case letters (ABC) are mandatory except for special exceptions.
Lower-case letters (abc) are optional.
Consecutive identical letters (AA) may be omitted.