I also stumped him with Girmar, the girl martian played by Pia Zadora in “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians”.
Oddly, David Mikkelson from Snopes beat him. He had his wife Barbara in there twice, but no David.
I also beat him with Keith Moore, head librarian at the Royal Society, but he’s relatively new to YouTube (in Brady Haran’s Objectivity Channel). I also beat him with SF Debris’s evil Janeway, but I’m not sure that one was fair.
Also, I found it odd that Yahtzee Croshaw was listed as not a console gamer when he’s reviewed console games. Made it take a really long time.
I stumped him with Joey Smallwood, Prince Rupert of the Rhine, and Walter Scott, first Premier of Saskatchewan.
He recognized Eleanor from Eleanor and Park. Failed to get Jaelle n’ha Melora from The Shattered Chain etc Darkover books.
I’ve just defeated it with Lilith from the Gaia webcomic.
I haven’t found this. When I’ve played it seems to guess a huge number of rugby and cricket players.
It won’t load on either browser I’ve tried but back when I last did successfully load it a few years ago, it did quite often ask pretty early if I was thinking of a cricket player (and I couldn’t even name you one actual cricket player.)
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.
He got me the first time with Betty White. But I stumped him with Mark Spitz.
Preach it!
The problem is not a lack of maintenance. The problem is continual maintenance, performed by every Tom, Dick, and Harry with an internet connection.
I got him with Evil Ash from Army of Darkness, probably because it asked me if he sings, and, he did (Oh Susanna), but only in the director’s cut.
He likes to ask me if my character is from SpongeBob Squarepants. I think it must be using other data, like maybe my age and IP address location.
He did seem a lot better in the past. He seemed to always pick questions that narrowed down the field by half, like a good 20Q simulator should do.
I stumped him with Flaccus Terentius from The Emperors Guide to Tamriel
The last several times I’ve used it, it’s started out asking if the person I was thinking of became famous on YouTube.
25 questions to get Jake Chambers from Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. That’s kind of a lot, but I was gobsmacked when it IDed him, because I didn’t think he was anywhere close.
Stumped it on the second try with Zilpah (concubine of Jacob, Book of Genesis). It was repeating itself on a few questions, and around question 60, after it had been long established that my character was Biblical, it asked “Was your character known for his/her emo hair at one point?”, which I found pretty funny.
And now it’s not letting me play any more! Sore loser.
OK, it relented. Stumped it with another Dark Tower character: Brown, the hermit who Roland meets at the very beginning (or, well, you know…) About 50 questions in, it guessed another minor DT character, Sheemie Ruiz, but then fell off the Path of the Beam, I guess.
I stumped it again (at first) with Oderus Urungus from Gwar. Its first guess was Jim Morrison. It got it on the continuation, though.