Usually in the main round giving a wrong answer at any time earned a strike, however, if a team fails to get any survey answers on the board three times, then the other family will have a chance to steal the points/dollars from the other team and quite possibly get more than their opponents. However, it could work against them, for the other team can keep the points/dollars all while building a better lead than their opponents. Occasionally, if any family members takes way too long to give his or her answer, then the host would say to them "three seconds" for which they immediately need to give their answer right away quickly or they'll get buzzed for which in turn it means that the team will also get a strike as well. The "strike" is used as a big red "X" inside a rectangular-shaped box (