This thing never fails to impress me time and time again.
Over the last three days it’s gotten almost everything I’ve thought of correct, including ones I thought would have been hard.
Just a few examples of what it’s guessed from me the last few days:
Humpty Dumpty
The Man in the Moon
Ron Burgundy (Anchorman)
Powered Toast Man (Ren and Stimpy)
Mr Hanky, the Christmas Poo (South Park)
Jim Ross
Tuco (Breaking Bad)
Mr Clean
The Archangel Gabriel
Snap (of Snap, Crackle, Pop)
Henry Bemis (from the Twlight Zone episode “Time Enough At Last”)
John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmitt
…and many, many more.
I’ve only stumped it about 5 times
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So play with it a bit and tell us what you’ve stumped it with…
…but not only that, give credit where credit is due: Admit what it impressed you with it getting too.
I stumped him with Sister Myria from the Warhammer 40k novel Faith & Fire.
It took 2 wrong answers (Cordelia Vorkosigan and Honor Harrington) just to get to the Sisters of Battle (as a generic group, thus another incorrect answer), then two more wrong answers (a Halo character, and one I can’t remember at all) before he gave up. She’s only appeared in one novel - maybe 2, I haven’t read Hammer & Anvil, yet, but she’s definitely not the main character in it, but still, he’s gotten relatively minor characters from much more obscure properties.
On the other hand, it got Horus (also Warhammer 40k) right off. Kinda figured it was going to guess him when it asked if he was a traitor. Heh.
I also stumped him with Whirl from Transformers. (He guessed Bender, then Shockwave, then Prowl (Animated), then Warlock (Marvel comics). So at least he was consistently in the robots, and guessed 2 different Transformers, even!)
His best showing yet: 17 questions to get Godzilla.
Then I stumped him with Megaguirus. (It asked variants of the same question like a dozen times…that could not have helped it - yes, she’s female; no, she’s not a woman; no, she’s not male; yes, she is a female; yes, she is female; yes, her gender is female; Oh, for pete’s sake, don’t you get it, she’s a female bug!!!)
Got him on Cowboy Bill Watts. May have confused it when I answered truthfully that the character is linked with football. Watts played at Oklahoma and also professionally, but is best known as a pro wrestler/promoter.
It’s not THAT amazing, really. 20 questions, done systematically, will narrow it down pretty damn quickly. It got Gunther from Friends in 20 in the nose, and to be honest that seems a little slow on the uptake.
I then tried Marlo Stanfield, from “The Wire,” and it took 24 questions, which is shockingly bad. About 15 questions in, the program just hopelessly lost its way and asked if the character “was an insect or arachnid,” after I’d already said it was human.
He guessed the Genie from Aladdin in five questions (he randomly asked if my character was a genie on the fourth question). Then I stumped him with Imhotep (he guessed Zoroaster on question 24).
Update: I finally told him I was thinking of Imhotep after 70 or so questions. I feel bad because he was on the list as “an Egyptian architect and god.” I had answered that he wasn’t a god several times.