20 questions

Sweet, I won! It failed to guess vioin resin.

I tried religion. It guessed it was an omelette. After some further questions, it suggested it might be surgery, betrayal, debt or anthrax.

Originally posted by Nordlys
I tried religion. It guessed it was an omelette. After some further questions, it suggested it might be surgery, betrayal, debt or anthrax.

Faith without a whale is but betrayal and anthrax!~

Maybe if you chose things for which people actually agree on their definition, then it might be able to perform better.

Just an idea.

Originally posted by Palynka
Maybe if you chose things for which people actually agree on their definition, then it might be able to perform better.

Just an idea.

When you play a chess game against someone who is very good at a particular opening, do you choose that opening because that might help your opponent to perform better?

Edit: But I am surprised that "religion" isn't even in the database, neither in the American nor in the British version.

Originally posted by Nordlys
When you play a chess game against someone who is very good at a particular opening, do you choose that opening because that might help your opponent to perform better?

Edit: But I am surprised that "religion" isn't even in the database, neither in the American nor in the British version.

Opponent? I didn't see it like that, but I guess that's fair enough.

This reminds me of the time I thought I had a perfect 20 Questions strategy and bbarr went all use/mention on my ass, and then laughed at me 🙁.

Palynka, how did you see it?

Originally posted by ChronicLeaky
This reminds me of the time I thought I had a perfect 20 Questions strategy and bbarr went all use/mention on my ass, and then laughed at me 🙁.

Palynka, how did you see it?

I just didn't feel I was playing a game against anyone so I wanted to give it a fair shot of finding it, all while making it difficult enough that I'd be impressed if it found it.

It's very easy to think of abstract concepts that it had no chance of finding.

Originally posted by Palynka
I just didn't feel I was playing a game against anyone so I wanted to give it a fair shot of finding it, all while making it difficult enough that I'd be impressed if it found it.

It's very easy to think of abstract concepts that it had no chance of finding.

I see. I'm not sure if I'd put things like love in that particular category of abstract concepts, though, since it's likely that lots of people have tried it (Noodles and I, for example, attempted it independently, unless she read my post before she tried it).