Author Topic: How the hell is this guessing right, this web game? (Read 15435 times)

ilbob · « **Reply #25 on:** February 06, 2009, 10:45:07 AM »

it got ruth bader ginsberg.

no idea how.

Laurent du Var · « **Reply #26 on:** February 06, 2009, 10:48:20 AM »

Charles de Gaulle in 11 questions.

It is cross referencing and often wrong I have found Jim Morrison
but couldn't find Brad Pitt, Madonna or Kurt Cobain...

The ghost told me that he was lost and if I minded starting anew
and has found Claudia Schiffer !

Pretty cool !

MicroBalrog · « **Reply #27 on:** February 06, 2009, 11:25:32 AM »

It guessed Ellen Ripley with 18 questions.

Shinji Ikari with 12 questions.

Werewolf · « **Reply #28 on:** February 06, 2009, 12:24:41 PM »

Beat it 3 of 3 tries.

It couldn't guess Archimedes, nor James Arness or me.

Not so hard to beat at all.

Balog · « **Reply #29 on:** February 06, 2009, 12:36:44 PM »

Quote from: Werewolf on February 06, 2009, 12:24:41 PM

Beat it 3 of 3 tries.

It couldn't guess Archimedes, nor James Arness or me.

Not so hard to beat at all.

It got him for me quite easily. You sure you answered the questions correctly?

Scout26 · « **Reply #30 on:** February 06, 2009, 12:39:18 PM »

Missed on G. Gordon Liddy and Henry V. Got Malcom Reynolds and Rod Blagoevich.

French G. · « **Reply #31 on:** February 06, 2009, 12:45:33 PM »

You former Marines on here are slacking, I beat it down with Chesty Puller. It picked Patton after 20.

CNYCacher · « **Reply #32 on:** February 06, 2009, 01:29:35 PM »

Quote from: Balog on February 06, 2009, 10:39:51 AM

What game is this?

Take any number 1-20.
Multiply by 9
Add the digits of your answer together to get a new answer. If your new answer is a two-digit number, add those digits together.
Subtract 5 from what you have.
Think of the letter that corresponds to your answer if 1=A, 2=B, etc.
Think of a country that starts with that letter.
Think of an animal that starts with the next letter.

Are there any Elephants in Denmark?

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #33 on:** February 06, 2009, 01:33:09 PM »

Quote from: Laurent du Var on February 06, 2009, 10:48:20 AM

The ghost told me that he was lost and if I minded starting anew
and has found Claudia Schiffer !

It's supposed to be a genie, like in Alladin.

Marnoot · « **Reply #34 on:** February 06, 2009, 01:36:06 PM »

Quote from: CNYCacher on February 06, 2009, 01:29:35 PM

Take any number 1-20.
Multiply by 9
Add the digits of your answer together to get a new answer. If your new answer is a two-digit number, add those digits together.
Subtract 5 from what you have.
Think of the letter that corresponds to your answer if 1=A, 2=B, etc.
Think of a country that starts with that letter.
Think of an animal that starts with the next letter.

Are there any Elephants in Denmark?

What about emus in Djibouti? Or eagles in Dominican Republic?

(Yes, I know nine times out of ten, people will think of Denmark and elephants first.)

Werewolf · « **Reply #35 on:** February 06, 2009, 02:26:53 PM »

Quote from: Balog on February 06, 2009, 12:36:44 PM

It got him for me quite easily. You sure you answered the questions correctly?

I answered don't know to the has any children question and whether or not he was married question but am quite sure I answered the others correctly.

Brad Johnson · « **Reply #36 on:** February 06, 2009, 02:50:45 PM »

Beat him. John Williams.

Bad

Scout26 · « **Reply #37 on:** February 06, 2009, 02:53:29 PM »

Quote from: CNYCacher on February 06, 2009, 01:29:35 PM

Are there any Elephants in Denmark?

No, but there are Egrets in Djibouti.

makattak · « **Reply #38 on:** February 06, 2009, 03:27:30 PM »

Quote from: Marnoot on February 06, 2009, 01:36:06 PM

What about emus in Djibouti? Or eagles in Dominican Republic? (Yes, I know nine times out of ten, people will think of Denmark and elephants first.)

Shouldn't that be Jaguars in Djibouti or Orangutans in the Domonican Republic?

(Also, apparently I immediately spell the more archaic "Ourangoutan" than the modern Orangutan)

GigaBuist · « **Reply #39 on:** February 06, 2009, 09:23:17 PM »

Quote

Pretty much each question at least cuts the list of probables in half.

Yep. With 20 yes/no questions you can narrow something down to 1,048,576 unique choices, provided that you've got a valid question to halve the set each time. There just aren't that many famous characters out there. Maybe 100,000?

It's pretty easy when you narrow down the set of possible answers like that.

FYI: It couldn't get Steve Prefontaine in 20 questions.

41magsnub · « **Reply #40 on:** February 06, 2009, 09:27:52 PM »

Dave Mustaine in 7... Wow

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #41 on:** February 06, 2009, 09:30:31 PM »

Why does it ask the same question more than once?

anygunanywhere · « **Reply #42 on:** February 06, 2009, 09:42:22 PM »

I won. It guessed George Washington in ten. Answer was Sam Houston.

Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas · « **Reply #43 on:** February 06, 2009, 09:42:45 PM »

Missed Ava Gardner and Claudine Auger, amongst others. Was close on Auger, though. Only forty-odd years off.

seeker_two · « **Reply #44 on:** February 06, 2009, 10:57:38 PM »

James Bond in 20.....but I also thought about the James Bond Jr. cartoon and the Bond video games....

Cyclops (X-Men) in 20....

Theodore Roosevelt in 16....

It melted down when I tried Shawn Spencer (Psych)....

Uncle Bubba · « **Reply #45 on:** February 07, 2009, 12:43:36 AM »

Quote from: Mr. Tactical pants on February 05, 2009, 11:59:40 PM

I was thinking of Huey Long, it gave me Harvey Milk. It's twenty questions. Process of elimination. After it had eliminated fictional characters, actors, athletes, artists, it asked if I was thinking of a politician. Then it asked if he was murdered, or if he was a head of state.

After it guessed wrong, it gave me a list of about twenty or thirty other people. Huey Long was not on the list, so I was asked to enter his name.

It might have been thrown off by my answers. It asked whether or not he was a criminal. I don't know much about Huey Long. I had the idea he was corrupt, so I said "Probably." That may not be a very good answer. Wiki says he was impeached, but not convicted.

Huey Long, known as "The Kingfish", was so crooked he had to have a couple of aides help him screw his pants on every morning. His son Russell was cut from the same cloth but managed to not get himself assassinated.

Boomhauer · « **Reply #46 on:** February 07, 2009, 01:25:05 AM »

Quote from: French G. on February 06, 2009, 12:45:33 PM

You former Marines on here are slacking, I beat it down with Chesty Puller. It picked Patton after 20.

I tried Chesty Puller, too. Somehow, it came up with MLK Jr, I think...

Damned if I know...

Anyway, it has issues with a lot of people playing at once...

Bogie · « **Reply #47 on:** February 07, 2009, 02:24:18 AM »

It has no idea who Oleg Volk is...

Jimmy Dean · « **Reply #48 on:** February 07, 2009, 03:38:28 AM »

it took it a while to get to Guy Fawkes, but it did guess right first time, after like 20-25 quistions I think.

Jimmy Dean · « **Reply #49 on:** February 07, 2009, 03:42:46 AM »

holy crap.

It got Rand Al Thor right from wheel of Time books by Robert Jordan.

quistions were pretty much

is he real?
is it a female?
does he fight?
with a sword?
does he use magical powers?
has he killed humans?
is he from america
is he from your country
is he an AI
is his hair white
is his hair black
is his skin white

and I think that that was about it....was impressed, I understand how it works, but still.....

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