Defeat the Akinator!

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@RickJay

I beat it with Eddie Stanky, Jesse Barfield, and any number of other baseball players. For fun I tried a Stephen King character; Peter McVries from “The Long Walk.” Fail (77 questions in, it was actually getting further, which I find surprising.) Really, it’s easy to beat; just pick a famous person or character who is NOT part of something Internet folks are likely to be into. I am sure the Akinator knows every single character on Game of Thrones, The Simpsons, The Big Bang Theory, or a video game.

I’ve said this before but if anything I find the Akinator is one of the WORST 20-questions simulators I’ve ever played with, I’d assume because it’s now just guessing based on the repeated popularity of pop culture guesses and its owner isn’t bothering to improve it. Its algorithm is nonsensical. I started it up just now and the first question was “Is your character in Mission Impossible?” That’s not a very clever starting point.

I was unimpressed. I beat it with James Garfield (it guessed Abraham Lincoln), Rudyard Kipling, and to my surprise even Glorfindel (it gave me Legolas and then Haldir). Often it asks totally ridiculous questions based on what I told it previously. (Are you a character from Lord of the Rings? Yes. Are you from Belarus?:dubious:)