02 · Answer board
Name something that uses steam
The Family Feud answer is vegetables — 57 points, the top response on the survey board. Whether you're stuck on the classic question, the mobile game's version, or today's Krillion prompt, every accepted answer is below, checked against its source on October 18, 2026.
The full Family Feud board
- 01 Vegetables Steamed vegetables — broccoli, dumplings, dim sum baskets 57 pts
- 02 Clothes Steamed clothes — garment steamers and ironing with steam 15 pts
- 03 Rice Steamed rice — the stovetop and rice-cooker staple 11 pts
- 04 Clams Steamed clams — the classic white-wine bistro dish 6 pts
Source: familyfeudinfo.com answer database, question #130143 (“Name Something You Steam”), checked October 18, 2026. Points follow the show's own scoring — one point per survey respondent, which is why boards rarely total 100.
Why vegetables win
The question invites kitchen answers, and kitchens are full of steam: vegetable steamers, dumpling baskets, rice pots. 57 of the 100 surveyed people named a vegetable answer, which buries the more literal picks — steam engines and power stations — that first-time players love to shout. If your family is playing at home, the lesson from the board is to think kitchen first, history textbook second.
One honest caveat about variants: Family Feud questions get re-asked across decades, editions and app updates, so the exact board you face can differ. The list above is the board recorded for this question in the community answer database as of October 2026 — treat it as the strongest first guesses, not a guarantee for every edition.
Playing Family Feud® Live! on mobile?
Name something that lets off steam?
The app phrases it as “lets off steam” rather than “uses steam”, and the top community-verified answer there is an iron — the appliance, not the metal. Same kitchen-and-laundry logic as the TV board. Answers rotate as the app refreshes its surveys, so treat it as a first guess.
Source: AppGamer community answers (question posted July 2, 2019), checked October 18, 2026.
Playing Krillion (LinkedIn's daily game)?
Same prompt, opposite scoring: rarer answers score more
| Score | Tier | Common answers |
|---|---|---|
| 100 | One in a Krillion | Aeolipile (the ancient steam sphere), Pop-pop boat (2 answers in tier) |
| 85 | Deep Cut | Autoclave, Steam tram, V-2 rocket — and hundreds more (579 answers in tier) |
| 60 | Rare | Aircraft carrier, Bamboo steamer, Steam iron (58 answers in tier) |
| 30 | Schooler | Boiler, Pressure cooker, Sauna, Steam turbine (18 answers in tier) |
| 10 | Plankton | Iron, Kettle, Steam engine, Steam locomotive (4 answers in tier) |
Krillion ran this prompt on October 16, 2026. Tier data from a community-maintained answer archive, checked October 18, 2026 — unofficial and not affiliated with LinkedIn.
Why do the answers seem so weird?
Because the board isn't what you would answer — it's what 100 randomly phoned strangers said. The show's surveys are run by an outside research firm, and as Reddit's former-contestant and survey threads confirm, most respondents don't even know their answers are destined for a game show. That's how a question about steam ends up celebrating clams.
- — r/AskReddit: has anyone actually been surveyed? · confirms the surveys are real phone polls
- — r/todayilearned: the 100 people don't know it's for a show · respondents think it's an ordinary market-research call
- — r/NoStupidQuestions: does Family Feud really survey 100 people? · why the numbers look made up (they aren't — see the FAQ below)
- — r/gamegrumps: who the heck DO they survey?! · the internet's favorite reaction to answers like these
Planning a home game? Reddit players have had good results writing their own surveys first — one DM polled 100 D&D players for a custom Family Feud night — or you can borrow our curated Family Feud questions and answers list to run the real thing.
FAQ
- What is the top answer to “name something that uses steam” on Family Feud?
- Vegetables — worth 57 points, the top answer on the board. The full board reads Vegetables (57), Clothes (15), Rice (11) and Clams (6), per the Family Feud answer database, checked October 18, 2026.
- What are some things that use steam?
- Beyond the Family Feud board: a clothes iron or garment steamer, a kettle, a food steamer or bamboo steamer, a rice cooker, an espresso machine, a sauna, a radiator, a steam engine or locomotive, a boiler, and the turbines in power plants. In Krillion's daily game the most common answers are iron, kettle, steam engine and steam locomotive.
- Why don't Family Feud points add up to 100?
- Each answer scores one point per survey respondent who gave it — but only answers named by at least two people make the board, and the board only shows the top few answers. Everything the 100 people said beyond the visible board simply isn't listed, so the displayed points almost never total 100.
- Is “name something that uses steam” also a Krillion question?
- Yes — it appeared as a daily prompt in Krillion, LinkedIn's category-guessing game, on October 16, 2026. Krillion scores answers by rarity instead of a 100-person survey, so the same prompt has a different answer list; the tiers are laid out above.
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