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Posted: 7/6/2011 3:49:25 AM EDT
Fun. Choose a famous person in your mind and answer the questions. It will guess it in under 20 questions. I did Neil Armstrong, Princess Di and Eric Cartmen and it got them all in under 20. bags



                               

                               

                               



                               

                               

                               




Link Posted: 7/6/2011 3:52:31 AM EDT
[#1]
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Fun. Choose a famous person in your mind and answer the questions. It will guess it in under 20 questions. I did Neil Armstrong, Princess Di and Eric Cartmen and it got them all in under 20. bags
                               
                               
                               

                               
                               
                               



Binary search pattern
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 3:59:04 AM EDT
[#2]
Took 26 questions to get Kevin Bacon
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 4:02:51 AM EDT
[#3]
Took 26 to get Mikhail Kalashnikov.
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 4:10:36 AM EDT
[#4]
Played with it before, pretty freaky, until you realize that the results are compounded from each visit to the site and when people enter the correct answers when it gets it wrong...
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 4:10:40 AM EDT
[#5]
It couldn't answer mine: Ben Gazarra! Got to 60 questions and I had to introduce him.

Got Walt Disney in 15.

Couldn't get Robin Wright in 25.

Nailed Tom Clancy in 20.

Sting in 20.
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 4:10:48 AM EDT
[#6]
26 to get Jack Kevorkian

It's first guess was Tupac Shakur
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 4:11:35 AM EDT
[#7]


Took 14 to get to Jesus Christ.  

Link Posted: 7/6/2011 4:12:35 AM EDT
[#8]
26 to get to John Clark, but it guessed Jack Ryan at 20.

Mr. GreenJeans from Captain Kangaroo in 20. And I didn't think the questions were at all relevant.  Weird.

Michael Valentine Smith in 20 with reasonably relevant questions.

Not sure how it discerned The Sundance Kid over Butch Cassidy, but it asked about 6 questions after the pattern, "is your character part of a duo?"
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 4:14:15 AM EDT
[#9]
Took less than 20 to get Dalai Lama.
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 4:15:53 AM EDT
[#10]
Leonard Nimoy in 16.  15 it asked if the character was from Star Trek, 16 it asked if he had pointed ears, then it went off on some tangent asking if he was in Disney films and such.

Helps that he has already been run over 1300 times.

36 to get to "Friday" from the Robert A. Heinlein book of the same name, that one has been played 105 times.
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 4:19:24 AM EDT
[#11]
Took less than 20 to get Dalai Lama.
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 4:20:25 AM EDT
[#12]
on question 346 and it still hasn't picked me
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 4:25:25 AM EDT
[#13]
35 to get Alexander the Great
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 4:30:19 AM EDT
[#14]
24 to guess Francisco d'Anconia.  It did guess John Galt at 20 though.
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 4:31:28 AM EDT
[#15]
18 to get Homer Simpson

12 to get Erwin Rommel, which actually impressed me since I figured this was mainly a celebrity thing

Went way out on a limb and decided to try it with a distant but infamous relative.  At 19 it guessed Adolf Eichmann, which was close but wrong, then Erwin Rommel at 26, also wrong but closer...Michael Wittman at 40...Still close, still wrong...I think it was leaning towards Hitler around 47-48, guessed Reinhard Heydrich at 50...Hermann Fegelein at 59, which is closer still but also WRONG....

Still going, I bet ARFCOM could guess it before this thing.

ETA: At 62 it came up with Heinz Guderian, which is wrong....Then gave me a list of 13 suggestions, all of which were wrong...Guess I'll have to teach it now, heh.
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 4:31:50 AM EDT
[#16]
Quoted:
on question 346 and it still hasn't picked me


Link Posted: 7/6/2011 4:34:11 AM EDT
[#17]
75 questions to guess Goatboy.

Wierd.
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 4:34:37 AM EDT
[#18]
29 to get Chris Costa





Link Posted: 7/6/2011 4:35:17 AM EDT
[#19]
30 to get Jim Bowie
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 4:35:30 AM EDT
[#20]
Jimmy Hoffa - 20 questions.
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 4:40:19 AM EDT
[#21]
18 for Bob Dylan
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 4:46:54 AM EDT
[#22]
Took 20 to get Eric Bana.




Link Posted: 7/6/2011 4:47:13 AM EDT
[#23]
Robin Olds (Triple Ace, Veteran of WW2, Korea, and Vietnam, Mastermind of Operation Bolo, featured on 'Dogfight' on the History Channel at least twice...) - @ 19 questions it came up with Eddie Rickenbacker, Chuck Yeager at 24, James Stewart ( Actor ) at 29, General Curtis LeMay at 39, Francis Gary Powers at 47, Paul Tibbets Jr. (BG Ret.)
( Enola Gay Pilot ) at 59, Francis Gabreski ( Francis Gabreski, WWII and Korea fighter ace ) at 62...

Apparently Brig.Gen Robin Olds was already KNOWN to this thing, which even made the excuse of being close....
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 4:47:33 AM EDT
[#24]
Took 15 to get Ron Jeremy.
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 4:48:44 AM EDT
[#25]
24 for The Stig, guessed Piers Morgan at 19, after that all the questions were dead on for The Stig.
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 4:50:49 AM EDT
[#26]
It took 39 tries to guess Jake Blues (of The Blues Brothers).
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 4:50:54 AM EDT
[#27]
Well it only took 19 to guess 'Cameron', even though Fox axed that show after a season and a half, so I guess it's not totally stupid:




Jack O'Neill from Stargate - It guessed the power rangers at 19 and finally got him at 25, after asking about vampires and Star Trek...
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 4:51:51 AM EDT
[#28]
After 70 questions it could not guess my character and had to suggest it.

I won
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 4:55:18 AM EDT
[#29]
It took 25 questions to get Ian Anderson.

27 questions to get Vlad Tepes.

Ha!  Stumped it with Major Sylvain-Eugene Raynal, CO of Fort Vaux during the Battle of Verdun.

10 questions for Marie Curie.  Strangely, two of the questions asked whether my character was female.
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 4:57:57 AM EDT
[#30]
question 13 for robin hood.
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 4:58:19 AM EDT
[#31]
40 for david koresh
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 4:58:27 AM EDT
[#32]
30 guesses to get John Kennedy Toole.
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 4:59:30 AM EDT
[#33]
Got Nancy Wilson (from Heart) in 26... I'll admit, I was amazed
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 5:03:22 AM EDT
[#34]
30 questions to get to Drazen Petrovic.
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 5:04:20 AM EDT
[#35]
It failed!

I was thinking General Umberto Nobile, it gave me Enrico Fermi.

Got to 24, no success, and crashed.
_________________________________________________
("Do not fail me again, Admiral!"––The Darth, (w,stte), "TESB")
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 5:04:59 AM EDT
[#36]
3 for 3
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 5:05:21 AM EDT
[#37]
24 to get Mr. Bean.
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 5:09:05 AM EDT
[#38]
guessed elvis in 14 and was wrong
continued
guessed jerry garcia in 20!

wow

Link Posted: 7/6/2011 5:11:31 AM EDT
[#39]
After a bunch of questions I received a 404 page not found message. Apparently Attila the Hun was too difficult.
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 5:12:16 AM EDT
[#40]
Quoted:
Took 26 questions to get Kevin Bacon


took 26 for Bucephalus (Alexander The Greats horse)

Link Posted: 7/6/2011 5:12:31 AM EDT
[#41]
Exactly 20 to get Richard Feynman.

ETA: 26 to get Leonhard Euler, guessed Gauss at 20.
Didn't get John Garand, 20 to get JMB.
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 5:13:48 AM EDT
[#42]
Quoted:
on question 346 and it still hasn't picked me


Link Posted: 7/6/2011 5:13:48 AM EDT
[#43]
I broke it.



Couldn't guess Kyle Lamb.




Link Posted: 7/6/2011 5:17:43 AM EDT
[#44]
26 for Patton
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 5:17:55 AM EDT
[#45]
It couldn't guess my character, and asked me to supply the name.




Link Posted: 7/6/2011 5:23:09 AM EDT
[#46]
David Bowie in 20.





Trey Anastasio in 19.





Hunter S Thompson in 18



Jerry Garcia in 14



Phillip Seymour Hoffman in 31
Speed

 
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 5:25:59 AM EDT
[#47]
Damn.

I gave it a couple slow pitches with Napoleon and Mario Andretti, which it handled fairly easily.

I was impressed it got Sergey Bubka.
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 5:28:31 AM EDT
[#48]
After 61 questions I had to tell it was General Sterling Price.
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 5:38:23 AM EDT
[#49]
it got John Moses browning in 9, but gave up at question 61 for John Ringo
Link Posted: 7/6/2011 5:38:51 AM EDT
[#50]
I had to tell it about Mark LaRue.
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