The Akinator

[GogglesPizanno]

http://us.akinator.com/

This is pretty cool. Basically think of a person (real or fictional) and answer a series of questions and it tries to guess who you are thinking of. It is surprisingly accurate (almost scary in some cases).

[Previsionary]

good gravy, Goggles... I blogged about this last year. Way to be late. And here I thought you were always on top of things. Obviously, I was wrong.

[UnfluffyBunny]

well rik mayall it had to had a second guess, and the violator needed a third guess, but aside from that got everything I could think of in 1 go o_o

[doctorchallenger]

Deng Xioping needed 2 guesses, Georbells and Nehru in 1 each, and I stumped it with Fredrick JAckson Turner, but I will say I had to dig deep.

[Tawodi Osdi]

It beat me on Ronald Reagan and the poet Homer, but it didn't get Red Tornado, but I didn't go beyond the first round.

[GogglesPizanno]

good gravy, Goggles... I blogged about this last year. Way to be late. And here I thought you were always on top of things. Obviously, I was wrong.

Blogs... BAH!
You kids and your faceblocks and twisters....

[detourne_me]

Oh my good Lord! I've been searching for this for a few weeks now.  I forgot I fist got it from Prev!  It would really come in useful for a fun game for my Winter English Camp classes. Good thing I still have Monday and Tuesday classes to use it.

[Outcast]

Hehe..it couldn't guess my favorite character after 3 tries.

I didn't find the character on his list/database.

It's a fun site nevertheless..

[Uncle Yuan]

Hm, stumped it with Keith Ellison.  (MN 5th district congressman and first Muslim-American elected to congress)

I do wonder about the algorithm, In the 40 questions I answered "Is X dark skinned?"  "Is X black?" and "Is X white?"  I could make an argument for Q 1 & 2, but the third?

[The Phantom Eyebrow]

Nice site.  It got Thomas Covenant on the third round but I beat it with Griff Rhys Jones!

(I do wonder though if I answered every question correctly though, I don't really know that much about either of them)

[UnfluffyBunny]

took 2 attempts to get galen marek (starkiller) but got kyle katarn and admiral ackbar first try

[edit]
thought i'd trick it by using death from discworld specifically but it even guessed discworld on first ty -_-

[Panther_Gunn]

I just beat it with Brother Power!  Kinda hard to get more obscure than a character that lasted two issues, even though it did have a Who's Who entry.

By entering the name of the character if it loses, I see how it can quickly expand it's database, making it increasingly more difficult to win.

[stumpy]

Ha! That was fun.

It got Mark Twain and Gandalf pretty easily.

Stumped it with Brainiac 5, though it might have been tough because I answered No / Not Really to "is the character human" (though he's not) because it asked that more than once. Oddly it guessed anime characters twice despite me answering that it wasn't an anime character.

It guessed Lois Lane in two tries (the first guess was Family Guy's Loretta Brown).