He is known as Akinator, the Web Genius! :o
http://en.akinator.com
So basically, here's the little shindig in this...
In all essences, it's an automated online 20 questions. Try to think of any fictional or real character (Don't be too obscure though, no one will be able to guess Minor Character #5 or Jason from CP) and ask Akinator questions. It's actually pretty amusing. My first five characters to him were this:
(Green are the ones Akinator got correct, Red are the ones Akinator got wrong)
Luke fon Fabre (Tales of the Abyss)
Cecil (Final Fantasy IV)
Jade Curtiss (Tales of the Abyss)
Presea Combatir (Tales of Symphonia)
Ike Greil (Fire Emblem)
And some random ones...
Knuckles the Echidna (Sonic)
Daler Mehndi
Van Grants (Tales of the Abyss)
The Buddha
Motoi Sakuraba
Have fun, tolerate the loading times.
By the way, you can make him learn a character by answering all the questions he asks you, and then pressing No, and then typing the character's name.
lol he din get Keldric of Dawn of Mana but he got Pikachu, but he didnt get Espeon or Umbreon, but he got Arthas.
Quote from: UltaFlame on November 30, 2008, 12:43:18 am
lol he din get Keldric of Dawn of Mana but he got Pikachu, but he didnt get Espeon or Umbreon, but he got Arthas.
Glad you had fun with him Ulta.
He may not ask the right set of questions. You can always go for "More Questions" if you want.
My sister thought of Kirby and the set of questions he asked her led to different route than Kirby, but when I did my Kirby guess, he got it right (with the right set of questions).
And make sure to help Akinator by pointing out who the right character is by answering the questions accurately! :)
I did.
I tried Joanna dark- Perfect dark zero it worked
i tried Yuna -Correct
i tried Payne- spelt it wrong but correct
he god kaelthas on the second try
got Onyxia on second try too
never got Siuan Sanche.
This is quite fun Star! I love him :3
He got Achilles and Odysseus as well as Buddha and Jesus xD
this thing fails at literary characters. Fails five times in a row before i get bored.
he got Rand al'Thor pretty easily.
Quote from: winkio on December 18, 2008, 08:24:08 pm
this thing fails at literary characters. Fails five times in a row before i get bored.
Which five?
Godot, Vladimir, Beloved, Tea Cake, and Paul D.
I DONT KNOW THEM.
First from Waiting for Godot, 3rd and last from Beloved, 4th is from Their Eyes were Watching God.
yeah never heard of those.
I've only read one of those....
1000 posts?!
I effing pwnt his ass! I was thinking Tom Brady and he guessed Brett Favre!
i wonder if he can guess one of the characters from L4D... I'll do Witch.
It took it fore extra tries to get Rand for me,
It got-
Sena Kobayakawa: wrong
Hiruma: right
Paris Hilton: right
Black Mage (8-bit. He actually appeared in the database several times, so it was fair :P)wrong
There's a simple way of doing this ._. Pick a character and lie about every characteristic O.o If it can read your mind it'll know if you're lying :roll:
Anyways,
Claus Valca: Wrong
Welkin Gunther: Right
Monica(DC2): Wrong
I might just be a terrible describer ._. But Monica was in the database so idk :D and Claus was in the database after the 5th attempt :roll:
I think you guys give him too little credit though xD Of all the possible things he knows, he asks a perfect combination of questions to narrow your choices down to one person. Of all the things you could possibly think of, that he can actually get one out of three is amazing to me! It's all in the questions, and yet I have a sneaking suspicion that some of the answers you people give may be misconstrued in some manner xD Human error may be to blame for his mistakes. Try again and see what happens.
Possibly. If you're ever unsure of something just put "I don't know" or whatever that middle choice is. However, don't do it too much or else he will never get it. (Hey, cut some slack, he's only a piece of javascript/code that claims to be a mind-reading genie, just here to pass the time, what's wrong with that?)
And FAX, sometimes if you just put a single answer the whole time, you get a special answer like "The smart-ass that says no" or something like that.
@Diokatsu: Man, you beat me.
One thing though. Some characters may not appear because in actuality the people who submitted character questions about them (When describing who your person is to Akinator) are saying incorrect stuff about them. You just have to set things straight, you know? XD
So... hes just smart and doesnt read my mind :(
It's all about narrowing things down. He uses an algorithm I believe. It's like, if you play this with your friends then try to ask the best questions for narrowing it down. What gender, what nationality, what profession, are they famous, and are they dead are all great ways to help narrow the field. You can try strategies like such if you play twenty questions with your family!
Are they male?
Y/N
This removes half the characters of evar from existance
Are they real?
Y/N
Another huge split, let's say 1/4 is left
Are they from an anime/ Are they a pop star?
1/5
Are they blonde?
1/10
Etc.,
Then you just keep going down the line until you've narrowed it down to one possible response. So let's say it has an array for every trait, and in each array is all the characters that have that trait. Every answer eliminates or checks off an array. Then at the end, it looks for a response that appears in every checked array that doesn't appear in any of the eliminated arrays, and you've got your character. Since they're user-submitted though, I'm wondering how it'll deal with contradicting information.
Obama: Right
Mcain: Right
Yuna: Right
Bush: Wrong EDIT: NOW HE GETS IT RIGHT AFTER I POST HIM WRONG
Buzz Lightyer Wrong: Got green lantern
Master Chief: Right
Cartman: Right
Crash Bandicoot: Right
Spyro the Dragon: Right (After 19 questions @.@)
John A. Zoidberg: Right (After asking 25 questions, first he got Porky Pig :P )
Frodo: Right
Kelseir (forgot how to spell it): Wrong (though he was in the database)
Vin: Wrong (though she was in the database)
who's Vin?
click on yes for all of the answers, then no, then I dont know
Very impressive work they did. I like this one.
What it couldn't get:
Candide
What it could:
Philip de Franco
Rorschach (Watchmen)
Commissioner Gordon
Winston Smith (but only after 40 questions)