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skeletor
skeletor Original post #1
Aug 21, 2011 at 11:59 PM
Try this out:

Akinator, the Web Genius

and keep on answering the questions.
Krow
Krow #2
Aug 22, 2011 at 12:06 AM
:shock:

It freaking guessed Space Marine!
Ronnie11
Aug 22, 2011 at 12:12 AM
LOL..it guessed it right..nice one
Krow
Krow #4
Aug 22, 2011 at 12:13 AM
After 40 questions, it gave me a list of options and the answer was there the second time I tried.
Ishu Gupta
Aug 22, 2011 at 12:14 AM
It even guessed Akinator (The genie on that site). :shock:
Liverpool_fan
Aug 22, 2011 at 12:16 AM
For me it guessed:
Roy Hodgson (after guessing Harry Redknapp first)
Hillary Clinton
Katy Perry
Emmanuel Eboue
Rafa Benitez
Captain Planet

Couldn't guess:
Pascal Cygan ( :lol: )
Faun
Faun #8
Aug 22, 2011 at 12:48 AM
On second try it guessed it right !

Neato.

wtf, it guessed it right in first try for another one.


....

Defeated when the choices are not so popular.

Great, guessed it right
*en.akinator.com/photo0/400x400/partenaire/p/412956__153502507.jpg
Ronnie11
Aug 22, 2011 at 2:01 AM
care to mention what it guessed? :p

Iron Man
black widow
cobie smulders
neil patrick harris
luis suarez
Incredible hulk

could not get milla jovovich
eggman
eggman #10
Aug 22, 2011 at 2:22 AM
Couldnt guess ZooZoo

Bu could guess Towlie (from South park) and Titus (from TV series ) and Tobias Funkie (Arrested Development)

Great site :)
azzu
azzu #11
Aug 22, 2011 at 5:30 AM
Freaking awesome ,
guessed Dexter , Leonardo di caprio but cudnt guess Jhonny quest
gagan007
gagan007 #12
Aug 22, 2011 at 10:09 AM
I had this app for Symbian, I didn't know it has a web version too :)
Skud
Skud #13
Aug 22, 2011 at 10:13 AM
Guess correctly Brian Lara after 20 questions. Now trying with Atul Bedade. ;)

It guessed: Virender Sehwag.

Partially Right! Guess if Bedade was born 10 years later, he would have been Sehwag. ;)
S
Aug 22, 2011 at 10:23 AM
It guessed Johnny Depp, Britney spears.
Piyush
Piyush #15
Aug 22, 2011 at 10:36 AM
guesses were

matt damon
leonardo di caprio
bruce wills
will smith
arnold shrw@#$%^negger

hugh jackman<-- correct one
abhidev
abhidev #16
Aug 22, 2011 at 11:35 AM
yea ...it guesses very well...guessed eminem, catherine zeta jones, sylvestor stallone....will tru with someone who is not so famous...I wonder what logic do they use to find answers...

it failed to guess Marathi actor 'Dada kondke'.....it answered as Raj kapoor.......
doomgiver
doomgiver #17
Aug 22, 2011 at 3:08 PM
:shock:

It freaking guessed Space Marine!

you are a WH fan too!!!

it guessed the emperor, but it took a while and a wrong guess :p
nims11
nims11 #18
Aug 22, 2011 at 3:38 PM
guessed game characters like cloud strife
and Tifa lockart (from FF7) right. !!

guessed PS3 when i thought of my PSP. ;)
Arsenal_Gunners
Aug 22, 2011 at 3:54 PM
Twenty Questions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Heh,got Kermit the Frog after 30 questions and 1 wrong answer.
Got trolldad easily.Impressive.
JojoTheDragon
Aug 22, 2011 at 6:13 PM
WTF! It guessed right. :D

But the second time it failed. I was thinking of DeathSpank and it showed John Shepard
sujoyp
sujoyp #22
Aug 22, 2011 at 6:49 PM
gussed aishwarya roy and rani mukharjee :D very nice gussing
motobuntu
motobuntu #23
Aug 22, 2011 at 7:24 PM
It's amazing, guessed Baba Ramdev, Anna Hazare and Priyanka Chopra.
Zangetsu
Zangetsu #24
Aug 22, 2011 at 8:55 PM
Nice find ico..

the algorithm is good...
common sense we can create the logic of it easily
harryneopotter
Aug 23, 2011 at 1:00 AM
great ...guessed Chuck, Hatake Kakashi, and Rock lee (in third try ...coz i lied :p )
Faun
Faun #26
Aug 24, 2011 at 1:48 AM
*i1113.photobucket.com/albums/k513/Hazefyer/Akinatorgay.jpg
mavihs
mavihs #27
Aug 24, 2011 at 3:23 AM
guessed Boa Hancock(One Piece)!!!
esumitkumar
Aug 24, 2011 at 4:49 PM
excellent link
ajai5777
ajai5777 #29
Aug 25, 2011 at 2:46 AM
Wow..Impressive..

Elisha Cuthbert
Rachel McAdams
André Villas-Boas
Viktor Reznov
Caterina Sforza
:shock: :shock:
Alok
Alok #30
Aug 25, 2011 at 3:17 AM
I tried it long ago on my mobile as a java game.
I guessed-
Sachin Tendulker
Johny depp
Tom Hanks
Steven Spielberg
Sonu Nigam
Ben Kingsley
lywyre
lywyre #32
Sep 6, 2011 at 4:20 PM
Rajnikanth
Soniya Gandhi
Narayan Moorthi
Vijay Mallya

And for LOL:
*img849.imageshack.us/img849/3388/barrely.jpg
escape7
escape7 #33
Sep 13, 2011 at 9:50 PM
Couldn't guess 'Inspector Steel'

I added it to the list though. Next time it should be guessed.

edit: It couldn't guess 'Doga' either... Looks like the database lacks Indian Comicbook Characters :)
harryneopotter
Sep 14, 2011 at 2:18 AM
just as it missed nagraaj when i tried ... added :p
Rahim
Rahim #35
Sep 14, 2011 at 6:35 PM
It guessed right! Sonia Gandhi.
Sujeet
Sujeet #36
May 9, 2012 at 3:17 AM
LOL.!!!
37 questions an dstill wrong answer!!!
Twice.LOL
Genie came up with Kristen Stewart on First Try and Megan Fox on 2nd.
It was Scarlet Johnson!!:p
With that many question i can draw anyone's KUNDLI!!!:p
utkarsh73
utkarsh73 #37
May 9, 2012 at 8:58 AM
Amazing..........
Guessed Prince of Persia within 20 questions and Ezio Auditore da Firenze in just 12 questions.

Again it guessed Sam Fisher within 15 questions.
theserpent
May 9, 2012 at 9:36 AM
Amazing it guessed Sheldon cooper :)
Desmond
Desmond #39
May 9, 2012 at 10:16 AM
Had an Android version of it. Pretty neat.
S
Sam777 #40
May 9, 2012 at 11:07 AM
wow! it even guessed Leon from Resident Evil.
asingh
asingh #41
May 9, 2012 at 11:44 AM
Beat it. Could not guess Jester from UT3.
KDroid
KDroid #42
May 9, 2012 at 12:01 PM
Guessed Lisbeth Salander in 20 questions.Defeated it. Couldn't guess Mikael Blomkvist.
koolent
koolent #43
May 9, 2012 at 12:20 PM
Could not guess Sir Thomas Alva Edison

Could not guess N7 too :p
reddead
reddead #44
May 9, 2012 at 12:57 PM
got right on common names like sachin tendulkar,srk,manmohan singh....

couldn't get shane watson.....got bret lee and ponting.....

and some questions are really funny:lol:
Sujeet
Sujeet #45
May 9, 2012 at 1:04 PM
Anyone willing to give a beating to it , try not to reply in Yes or No:p
the question list will run into hundred and still the answer will be nowhere close to what you would be thinking of.
*img403.imageshack.us/img403/7/roflxa.jpg
ROFLCOPETR:rofl:
Lost To RamdevBaba:p
RCuber
RCuber #46
May 9, 2012 at 1:21 PM
Yes.. impressive.. but could not guess..
Bumble Bee - showed Optimus Prime- still impressive.
Linux Torvalds
and some other characters..

must say.. Genius
Anorion
Anorion #47
May 9, 2012 at 1:22 PM
Akinator guessed Machete and Hulk before cracking Zohan

*i.imgur.com/1jUky.jpg
also wrong
skeletor
skeletor #48
May 9, 2012 at 1:30 PM
LOL.!!!
37 questions an dstill wrong answer!!!
Twice.LOL
Genie came up with Kristen Stewart on First Try and Megan Fox on 2nd.
It was Scarlet Johnson!!:p
With that many question i can draw anyone's KUNDLI!!!:p
Anyone willing to give a beating to it , try not to reply in Yes or No:p
the question list will run into hundred and still the answer will be nowhere close to what you would be thinking of.

ROFLCOPETR:rofl:
Lost To RamdevBaba:p


You're answering the questions wrong. :p

Ramdev was guessed very swiftly in less than 15 questions.
Sujeet
Sujeet #49
May 9, 2012 at 1:55 PM
^^
None of the questions were answered wrong in First Post....
In Ramdev baba case i resorted to answer "probably" and "maybe instead" of Direct No or Yes.:wink:

Lol.
he asked if he is from India.I
answered Yes.
then it asked is he american :shock:.
Anorion
Anorion #50
May 9, 2012 at 2:00 PM
^yea, noticed many such questions, think it is confirming its hunch, so you just have to click "no", which just confirms its hunch, many times the last 2-3 questions before it answers are like this, if you click "yes", it starts asking questions again
did we all feed in Ramdev Baba? or were you guys just checking if it worked? it got Ramdev Baba when I tried pretty soon
but it had to go through Rama and Krishna before hitting on Shiva
Sujeet
Sujeet #51
May 9, 2012 at 2:06 PM
LOL.
I think he is fed up with me:mrgreen:
From last 15 minutes i am getting this message :p
*img137.imageshack.us/img137/8376/rofl2l.jpg
D
dingdong #52
May 9, 2012 at 2:25 PM
It could not guess rakhi sawant.:D
G
May 9, 2012 at 2:54 PM
it guessed pawan kalyan, mahesh babu and katrina kaif :)
ajai5777
ajai5777 #54
May 9, 2012 at 6:07 PM
Eva carnerio :shock: :shock:
It didnt ask anything related to sports and I thought I was going to win and the first guess itself was correct :shock:
Sujeet
Sujeet #55
May 9, 2012 at 6:44 PM
Lol.
IT guessed Tom,Marcus Fenix,Hitman,Shepherd!!!!
nICE.


Who owns this site.???
I want that algorithm!!:mrgreen:
Tough it learns from user input only and i have roughly figured out the way it works.!!:p
RCuber
RCuber #56
May 9, 2012 at 7:04 PM
Guessed Alcatraz form Crysis 2
pranav0091
May 9, 2012 at 7:56 PM
Holy mother of god. That guess is way better than my friends'.
bear grylls. 2nd attempt.!!

But couldnt guess ellen page.

Or isaac brock.

Looks like its just learning names like a search engine and then associate each character with a rank for each of his/her attributes.
B
batman #58
May 9, 2012 at 8:19 PM
Cool one..
Sujeet
Sujeet #59
May 9, 2012 at 8:43 PM
Mini Google.:p
KDroid
KDroid #60
May 9, 2012 at 9:27 PM
Defeated it again! It could not guess Lord Hanuman! :D However, he was close! He guessed Lord Ganesha!
skeletor
skeletor #61
May 9, 2012 at 9:41 PM
Defeated it again! It could not guess Lord Hanuman! :D However, he was close! He guessed Lord Ganesha!
You answered a few questions "weirdly". Give right answers, it will guess. :)

When I answered questions, it straightforwardly asked me - "is your character a monkey?" :)
Nipun
Nipun #62
May 9, 2012 at 10:09 PM
Guessed someone from Modern Warfare, when my character was Dimitri Rascalov(GTA 4). :(

LMAO it guessed noob in second try

EDIT: Its in his characters list. So maybe I gave wrong answers? :(
A
May 9, 2012 at 11:30 PM
It's based on analysis of answers given by correspondents. So each failure and success makes it more precise.
tkin
tkin #64
May 10, 2012 at 12:13 AM
Nice find ico..

the algorithm is good...
common sense we can create the logic of it easily
Prediction based algorithm running a tree search most probably, the database(hence the tree) must be f'n huge.
Sujeet
Sujeet #65
May 10, 2012 at 12:26 AM
Prediction based algorithm running a tree search most probably, the database(hence the tree) must be f'n huge.

Exactly.
And that f'n Database is built mostly on User inputs!.
Every time one runs it, it gets smarter and larger.
KDroid
KDroid #66
May 10, 2012 at 1:53 PM
You answered a few questions "weirdly". Give right answers, it will guess. :)

When I answered questions, it straightforwardly asked me - "is your character a monkey?" :)

My input made it precise, ico.
toad_frog09
May 14, 2012 at 3:07 AM
LOL...I am using this to see the pics of random Porn Actresses of Indian Origin.
funskar
funskar #68
May 14, 2012 at 3:48 AM
Bhagat singh
eminem
dhoni
Anish
Anish #69
May 14, 2012 at 7:37 AM
It told "Bravo, You defeated me"
And I thought of Srinivasa Ramanujan
D
dingdong #70
May 14, 2012 at 5:59 PM
It could not get rakhi sawant when i had tried.Dont know now if it can.:D
Reaper_vivek
May 14, 2012 at 9:09 PM
Guessed Shepard and Iron Man right, they weren't too tough...

Bt it guessed Katrina Kaif in the 3rd try, it was supposed to be Amy Jackson, I knew it wouldn't pass that..

Update : I played further to get Amy right, but "Bravo, You defeated me"
Anish
Anish #72
May 14, 2012 at 10:04 PM
I got this when playing for the second time : LOL
*i.imgur.com/2zREN.png