Can you beat Akinator?

http://uk.akinator.com/#

o_O

holy fuck. i did beowulf, augustus caesar and gizmo and it got them all, and way too quickly.

it got tim smith of cardiacs after a load of REALLY vague questions and one incorrect guess (elvis costello)#

o_OOOO

i think the beauty of this thing is that every time someone plays it, it gets better and obtains a wider database

struck out on joel cairo. thank the lord tbh, was creeping me out.

didn't have one-time Charlton hero Chris Powell! :D

This thing took wayyyy too long to figure out Paddington.

wtf! it was nowhere near augustine of hippo and then it pulled him out of the bag. it was like 'is he indian?' no 'is he jewish?' no 'Augustine of Hippo'. wtf?!

It got Mr. Hat pretty quick but it asked in two different ways if he wore a hat, which made me laugh.

This is like the 20 questions thing my kids own and I guess how the algorithms kinda work but it's pretty mind-blowing when it guesses Leopold Bloom from some quite vague questions.

I beat him with Stephen Pastel.

it didn't have Xenophon. feel like i can relax now.

Ha NV the first time I picked up that 20 questions game my friend thought of 'pussy' and it asked for its final question, 'Is it pussy willow?' ("Does it bring great joy to many people?" "Yes.")

lol

I just beat this guy with Félix Guattari so I can sleep soundly now.

this is fucking amazing

asking him about obscure characters it wouldn't have in a million years isn't "beating" anything, guys

a) "obscure"
b) it adds to the database so it can improve in future
c) he told me I beat him

....aaaaand after a slip-up involving neal morse, it gets an ilxor

took him 40 q's and three guesses to get werner herzog!

like it was all vague for 12 questions and then it asked if he had a mustache, and then it knew it was john holmes!

^^^yeah this shit is like whoa

Noodle you are either an annoying college freshman or an legitamately sick adult agoraphobe if you don't think Félix Guattari is obscure

it got king buzzo in 20 questions!

o lollllll after it beat me for Ishmael I was going for Moondog, and it guessed Scatman John. Although I suppose a beard doesn't count as a moustache. I'll try again...

Charles Manson - decidedly not Moondog.

didn't even get Danny Dyer

got tarzan, dubya and crumb
stumped it on andy capp

got gen patton, margaret thatcher, kylie minogue, j0hn darn1elle, whiffed on christoph waltz

http://i46.tinypic.com/k2bvuu.jpg

Rong again, Akinator. Not every indie songwriter I think of who does not wear a beard, is not black, and plays folk songs is J0hn D, sheesh

....aaaaand after a slip-up involving neal morse, it gets an ilxor

― 102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 01:32 (29 minutes ago) Bookmark

this was obviously j0hn d btw

htf did it get mullah omar?

got Dean Moriarty from on the road. started asking shit like does he drive a car? and i knew he'd get it.

he didn't get erlend loe tho'

asked if he was of scandinavian origin and i thought he may have known it. bud sadly not.

did not get Abdul Dostum though

lol ok who put Lou1s Jagger (Dyson Musician) on this thang

this thing is sick. played it a year ago or so and can only imagine it's gotten harder to beat since

stumped him with Charles Bovary

Just stumped it with Kathleen Hanna.

Wait shit - it got her on the second round. Damn.

Beat him on:
Asmus Tietchens
Joe Meek

Got Hieronymus Bosch but beat him with Enrico Palazzo.

this is shit. it asked if player is of british origin and then suggested ole gunnar solskjaer.

he doesn't know teddy sheringham very well

also thought craig charles was julian barratt (this was after the question: is your character black - partially)

beat him w/ Phil Drummond

what about Bill Drummond

he got stuart murdoch of belle and sebastian very quickly but guessing that's because all internet nerds did it

r kelly, on the other hand took 3 goes.

and needed the question "has your character ever been accused of being a paedophile"

This is all fun and all until it has a big enough base to find Sarah Connor- if you catch my drift.

it got Falkor the Luckdragon in 12 questions, kudos

two games:

akinator got jesus (the son of god) in 18 questions

akinator did not get mike the headless chicken (famous headless chicken) in 50 questions - TAKE THAT, INTERNET!

nor did it get doggy poo (animated stool)

i think the trick is to suggest things that do not obey the normal rules for things of their kind and are extremely obscure

it got chairy (excitable furniture) in 20 questions

i set it 'tracey jacks' from the blur song of the same name and its final guess was major tom, another character from a song

which is itself pretty impressive

did not get little otik/otesánek (hungry wooden tree child)

looooool clicking 'i don't know' over and over again gets you 'the one nothing is known about' then if you carry on clicking 'i don't know' you get 'broccoli dog' then if you carry on clicking 'i don't know' you get 'mrs x' then if you carry on the the end you get 'i don't know man' and then in the table of options i saw felix guattari so i clicked on him and thus noodle vague's work is done

now i kinda have to go to bed

did not get M.O.D.O.K. (mobile organism designed only for killing)

why aren't you asleep already!!!

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/4986/broccolidog.jpg

that is why

broccoli?!!

I tried Drew Daniel. I got Perez Hilton.

Dear Akinator, please stop thinking every non-American in a band is Stuart Murdoch. Cheers!

Beat him with Lord Fanny of The Invisibles.

best one so far was akinator guessing "harry potter" for "richard d james" - that was a real tea on the monitor moment

it didn't even guess Walter Smith or Tony Mowbray

Akinator does not know regional American conductors

yet it knows ilxors?

haha okay now I don't feel so creeped out by the J0hn D guess, I didn't see that LJ already tried him

there was no Neil Morse slip-up though...

Okay, had my first holy shit moment with this just now. Got Bubbles from The Wire in surprisingly few questions and what was asked was not heading in that direction AT ALL.

so first he guessed Imogene Heap, which made me lol

gave him another chance and he guessed Roisin Murphy, which holy shit how???

Like I did MF Doom and it was way off then suddenly went right to "Does your character wear a mask?" and "Does your character sing about food a lot?" so I knew where that was heading... the Bubbles one just popped out of nowhere.

beat it w/ alfred chester

holy shit i did that jim varney character earnest and it got it!!

Beat it with Janet Weiss, although the third guess was Carrie Brownstein. First guess was D'arcy and second was Linda Perry, lol.

went for xgau and its final guess was leonard maltin

this thing just guessed nick cave even though i said over and over that my 'character' was a black african person

LOL I tried it with Harry Caul (from "The Conversation") and it gave me Dirk Diggler.

went for xgau and its final guess was leonard maltin

― 102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic)

horseshoes and hand grenades

Is he famous on the internet? probably partially
Does he sing? Yes
Is he a writer? probably partially
Is he fat? No
Is he British? Yes

Answer:
http://i48.tinypic.com/wa0r2q.jpg

It guessed Frankie Boyle, Philip Glass and Obelix but failed on Gruff Rhys (said it was the singer from Feeder FFS)

haha!

It got Stephen O'Malley, i take it back, "he" is good.

http://i47.tinypic.com/2gv6buw.jpg

It knew Shaggy 2 Dope way too quickly.

Meg White?
(xpost)

this is best when it asks seemingly dead end questions but then still gets it right first time.

got gucci mane real damn quick, with no obviously gucci-specifying questions. except maybe the one about "is your character famous because of the internet? yes." still, kinda terrifying.

akinator was soundly defeated by plies however.

question 14: is your character from the Fallout series?

beat him with: Jason Pierce
Oliver Reed
Mac from Superchunk
Jon Pertwee

He got:
Thom Yorke
Tesla
Ian Curtis (in just 13!)
Vonnegut
Kundera

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK

he got the MCP in 30

i beat him with Robert Patrick, but he got the lego man in 40 questions.

i have no choice but to burn down the server.

oh and i beat him with Tracey Walter, too.

beat him first try with PG Wodehouse

I have to be careful not to spend hours and days doing this, but I did beat him with Oja Kodar.

for Sergio Aguero it has asked me if our mothers knew each other and was he in Charmed????????????

When there's know way in hell he'll get it, it seems only merciful to click "go on" and tell him more about the person.

Beat him handily with August Kleinzahler.

And I haven't even looked past my deask, actually. Oja Kodar is on a poster over my head, and August Kleinzahler wrote the book sitting right behind my keyboard. This guy ain't shit.

Aw its timing out for me.

Mmm he sleeps too much

Eh beat him w Wyndham Lewis easy

beat him with milton

Managed to get James Bond, but only after incorrectly guessing Howard Marks.

Failed on Genesis P-Orridge, but then when I looked at the details it was expecting the answer to "Is your character a woman" to be 'probably'!?

it got pynchon, which was fun cos of all the 'don't knows'

Also guessed Ralf Huetter, but only after guessing Dieter Bohlen...
http://dbliedtner.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/bohlen.jpg
...not really like Ralf at all.

Beat it with Frank Beard (it guessed Stewart Copeland, Steve Forrest, then Neil Peart)

Every time I "beat" it, the name of the person is not on the list of close matches, but after typing it in it's on the list of names it knows - does this mean my answers don't agree with what previous players have said about those people?

Failed on Genesis P-Orridge, but then when I looked at the details it was expecting the answer to "Is your character a woman" to be 'probably'!?

"Probably" doubles up as "partially", which I guess is why someone clicked it.

(Just beat it w/Georges Perec, wasn't sure if "is your character Eastern European?" was worth a "partially" or a "no" - guy was native French son of Polish immigrants. Think I went for "partially" in the end since I had already said he was French about 3 times)

Beat it with Simon Napier-Bell (it guessed George Martin, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Patrick Moore)

Beat him with "Alfred Pennyworth". His first guess for Alfred was "emo"! :)

Beat it with Tuomas - it guessed Luntek (some Polish minor celebrity), Techno Viking, and Andrew Bravener (some guy on Youtube)

Got Jeff Stelling on the third go but I dunno if I unfairly threw him off by saying he was a journalist

a run of bad luck. akinator got a string of latin american novelists and poets, the man in the moon, the vagina, and stanislaw lem without great difficulty. akinator was not able to get the penanggalan, but that seems cold comfort.

He didn't know Mauno koivisto, a former Finnish president, but he knew Urho Kekkonen, the president who preceded him. I guess that's because Kekkonen was a more prominent figure.

He's not getting Esteban Buttez.

"Spring Heeled Jack", my arse!

He didn't get King Boy Pato, guesssing instead Winston McCall from Parkaway Drive, Trent from Punchy, and (who could forget?) Anonymous (anonymous)

got Chris Benoit in the end after many questions (has your character ever murdered anyone) was a good clue..

Beat him three times with Torquil Campbell, Miracleman and Mark Eitzel. The first two were listed, Mr Eitzel not.

beat him with J.M Coetzee.
(he thought of Pamuk and Eric Hobsbawm)

He does know Corto Maltese, but not Corto's best(?) friend Rasputin.

He got Ned Raggett.

Writer,Dandy,Philanthropist,Narrator,Submariner,Bon Viveur,Internet Superstar,Journalist,Librarians Assistant,Sideburns

seriously? Neds on there?

He got varg vikernes in about a dozen guesses. Is your character a singer? in a rock band? is he involved in metal music? is he scandinavian? has he killed someone? lol

It gets rob halford by asking if hes homosexual.

ok fucking hell it gets ned raggett after 20 extremely vague questions

on the first guess

"Is your character famous thanks to watersports?" uh

(This was for Greg Louganis; so far he's guessed Michael Phelps, Mark Spitz, Kelly Slater and MICHELLE KWAN)

i tried ned and he didn't guess him after 40 questions. I think you lot are pulling my leg.

post a screenshot

He got Ned on the second attempt (at first he guessed Randall Munroe)

http://i49.tinypic.com/10xwtwy.jpg

argh this thing

Was your character fat?
Was your character aggressive?
Did your character play bass?

LOL! I cant believe there's even a photo. Ned truly really is the most famous guy on the internet.
xposts

It got Dusty Springfield on the second go after first guessing... Freddie Mercury (both were singers, homosexual, English, and are deceased)

(xpost) you can put yourself into the database - just answer the questions as they apply to you, then enter your name.

I know someone from DFFD put Doom Dom on it, he said on the thread about it.
If you're not one of the few ilxors who know who I'm talking about then you're very very lucky!

Isn't this basically the same as the old "Guess The Animal" computer game? http://www.animalgame.com/play/faq.php

Hah! I beat the Akinator (who apparently doesn't know Raymond Chandler)

I said to someone last night that I had this on my Apple IIe, and it was called "Animals," and my "fun" uncle and his friends had a ball drinking beer and making up the weirdest wrongest things in their addled brains and feeding it to the computer until the game was almost unplayable. This version of the game, when it gave up, would ask you to enter your own questions. Oh, it was a mess.

"Does it have a hose coming out of it's ululatory cavity?"

("Strange Brew" was big with them at the time. Everything had a goddamn hose.)

beat him with J. G. Thirlwell and Tod A. from Cop Shoot Cop.

he got ned and varg vikerness after 20 questions tho

the best miss so far was Stephen Stapleton, where the second guess was David Tibet (!) so i figured it was in the bag and then the final guess was Ian Anderson. loooool

I'm still lolling at "is it Michelle Kwan? no it's Greg Louganis"

st. jerome. stumped.

Beat him with Geir Jenssen (aka Biosphere).

It got louis in 25 questions but poor LJ doesn't have a pic.

akinator thinks I'm Ian MacKaye!

okay now it guessed "a friend of yours" and posted this picture:

http://uk.akinator.com/photo0/a/ami.jpg

uh

now it guessed "you":

http://uk.akinator.com/photo0/v/vous.jpg

which one of you is fucking with me

I beat it with Elizabeth Fraser! And she's on the list 3 times (once as "elizabeth frasier", lol)

It gave me bjork and annie lennox o_0

got The Man from The Road after 20 questions

hey dan would you say that you play the piano?

not really

i wish one of those was lj's pic
xposts

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA I went for Glenn McGrath and after about 14 measly, vague questions it plumped for Shane Warne

I love you, Akinator

so far on the path to dan i have gotten Max Bemis of Say Anything, some goth looking dude named gerard way, and chris rock

okay I don't know what is worse, getting called a monkey or getting called the lead singer of My Chemical Romance

Ah, the rocky path to Dan...

got Glenn on the third try after Andrew Johns

loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool gerard way = dan

Who's Gerard Way?

I tried to be clever, and beat it with "My Imaginary Girlfriend", for which it guessed "a lesbian", Sigbjørn Johnsen (politician), and "Your wife to come".

... Really, Tuomas?

here is a clue: all of the information to answer that question is on this thread

lol gerard way = dan hahahaha

Could be worse Dan, it could say you're Geir Hongro.

loooooooooooooooooool

handy tip: NEVER say 'no' to 'is the person famous' or it's all 'right generic person in your life'

errrr that's kinda obvious ignore me

I tried to get to Dan, but it suggested Jermaine Jackson, Sean Kingston(?), and Saul Williams, and gave up.

to get find you lj i had to click no to you being famous. same with ned. i couldnt find you guys cos I said yes or partially.

can i assume jj has put dan on it and vice versa?

my jaw actually dropped when it got jay gatsby in like 5 vague questions

hahahaha

The last time I tried myself, it gave me TAY ZONDAY

oh youre never gonna believe what other ilxor i found on it.

(hint: norwegian)

hahaha

Hey wow, now I got Dan, he was the third guess!

Clicking repeatedly on "no" to see what happens results in the guess "Someone who kept clicking on No to see what happens".
Clicking repeatedly on "yes" results in the guess 'Some Guy Who Always Presses "Yes"'.

haha wait

lol i havent looked for dan. im still laughing at finding a certain norwegian (Is he a rapper? Is he scandinavian? is he human? A: Partially) and it got him! LOL

luke wakefield -> jaakko jarvinen -> ryan north

alas, poor tuomas

trying myself, so far i have Joshua Radin, Paul Masvidal from Cynic, and Tom Hinchy (EyeBallNeck)

Tuomas you so did not get me

I am trying myself again and I got SAMWELL

hahahaha okay so maybe I am in there; I just attempted to add myself and noticed an entry for "Dan Perry (Drummer for Gay Dad)"

tried for dan got akon

Haha, now it suggested Marilyn Mansons for Dan!

RESULT! I got myself!

lol it thinks John is Bill Hicks

How do you add pics to this thing?

looooooooooooool he just guessed "Cole Christine (douche)"

loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

"the boy you love but who is not your boyfriend"

wtf Akinator, I said I did not love him

It got Rolf Harris first time, damn...

hahahaha okay so maybe I am in there; I just attempted to add myself and noticed an entry for "Dan Perry (Drummer for Gay Dad)"

lololol. I havent found you yet.

who could have done such a thing to dan

searching for garm leads to madonna, guaranteed

first guess: ihsahn

second guess: garm

and with some pretty goddamn vague questions!

does dan wear heavy makeup and involved in industrial music?

"two girls one cup" is in there - I was thinking of something else, and fortunately there was no pictures.

Doess your character wear glasses or have a nickname linked with animals? yes or no?

yes to both got Samwell (what what in the butt) wtf is samwell?

next guess tay zonday after i said yes to famous on the internet

(xpost) he's a singer - "What What (In The Butt)" is one of his songs.

40th question was Is your character funny? I said partially and he got
http://i50.tinypic.com/2ykkfpt.jpg

http://i46.tinypic.com/148omk0.jpg
LOL

How can i find John?

Does your character live in America? Yes Yes
Is your character real? Yes Yes
Is your character an actor? No No
Does your character have children? No No
Is your character a singer, or does he work with a singer (as a songwriter, producer, musician...)? No No
Is your character famous? Yes Yes
Is your character linked with sports? No No
Is your character still working? No No
Has your character died ? Yes Yes
Has your character killed humans? No No
Is your character a writer? Yes Yes
Is your character known by science-fiction fans? Yes Yes
Was your character working in the 80s? No No
Does your character have a moustache? No No
Is your character a woman ? No No
Is your character a film director? No No
Does your character have a long beard? No No

From this it managed to get H.P. Lovecraft! How is that possible! It really is magic!

hahaha i just found me, awesome

how do i answer to find you?

"Has your character ever been trapped in an object?"

uh waht

xpost idk, it was asking some bizarre questions so its kind of unpredictable? i am probably know for beards is the only one im sure i got right

is your character real? yes
is your character a singer, etc etc? yes
does your character play in a rock band? no
is your character a girl? yes
is your character american? no
is your character asian? no
is your character english? yes
has your character been a member of a famous band? no
is your character blond? no
has your character ever been married? i don't know
is your character white? no
does your character have short hair? no
does your character have children? i don't know
is your character brazilian? no
was your character famous in the '80s? yes
is your character called by his full name? no
is your character between 20 and 25 years old? no
is your character a member of a legendary band? not really
has your character already died once? no

i think of...sade (correct answer)

I think of...

j0hn d after 30 questions, which included the trapped in an object one and one about being associated with roses.

this thing kind of rules tbh

guess after 20 was daniel johnston

i dunno who Christian Weston Chandler is but i found him looking for you John. After Kevin Eubanks(tonight show band), Matt Wachter and moot (creator of 4chan). and funnily enough I dunno who they are either.

heh

Character to find valid : Hal Incandenza

Question Answer given Answer expected
Does your character live in America? Yes Yes
Does your character really exist? No No
Is your character from a TV series? No No
Is your character from a video game? No No
Is your character an adult man? No No
Is your character a female? No No
Is your character an animal? No No
Is your character a human being? Yes Yes
Is your character famous thanks to cinema? No No
Is your character found in a novel? Yes Yes
Does your character have a sister? No No
Does your character fight against monsters? No No
Is your character despised by a lot of other characters? Probably not ?
Does your character go to school? Yes Yes
Does your character have a older brother? Yes Yes
Is your character linked with sports? Yes Yes
Is your character rich? Yes Probably

17 questions

I ant find you at all john.

lol, i was trying to do ta-nehisi coates and got ned raggett as guess #2

He's getting really good
Is he a writer? Yes
Has he been into music a long time? Yes
Is he associated with metal music? Yes
http://i45.tinypic.com/t6ytl1.jpg

i tried chuck eddy and it didn't get him :-/

on december 12, 2009 Akinator becomes self-aware

did you say he was under 50 and was married had children wears glasses and has a beard?
xp

i did!

maybe the other questions you got were a bit too vague. Try again, he is on there!It doesnt often ask if hes into metal as well as a writer, when it does it always gets him.

Character to find valid : Ellis (Left 4 Dead 2)

Question Answer given Answer expected
Does your character live in America? Yes Yes
Has your character really existed? No No
Is your character an adult man? Yes Yes
Is your character from a video game? Yes Yes
Does your character fight against monsters? Yes Yes
Does your character belong to a foursome? Yes Yes
Is your character black? No No
Does your character wear a hat (cap, crown,...)? Yes Yes
Is your character old (over 50 years old)? No No
Is your character a military man? No No
Is your character old? No No
Does your character use guns? Yes Yes

only person i cant find is john justen

it thought he was ned earlier

i am a mystery

xpost hahaa

throw in singer/musician/bass player/guitar player and it might get you there? idk

also i am alive, but not "young" or "old"

i did all those!
btw i did dan again and it guessed "Steve Urkel" wtf is that?

john do you belong to a foursome? trio? 5 in your band? solo? i think this is what is letting me down.

Seriously kerr, you dont know who urkel is?!

it thinks you're ted leo. At least I know who he is.
Trayce, nope, asked in chatz and ive never heard of the tv show everyone said he was from. Maybe it wasn't shown here? Or I just never saw it. I thought I knew most 80s comedies shown here but i guess not.

ffs i still cant get John, I'm not going to bed until I do damnit.

no he is NOT Sufjan Stevens!! Dan what have you got him under!!

is john married? maybe that's where im getting it wrong.

it says youre isaac brock now

nope, not married

i just tried to make a series of responses to get to "l0u1s j4gg3rs vacuum cleaner", and it got me to l0u1s himself! in 20 questions!

Gotcha!!
I knew Dan wasn't playing fair.

Is your character married? dont know
Is your character an indie musician? Yes
Does your character play guitar? Yes
Is your character a writer? Dont know.
Is your character famous on the internet? yes
is your character female? No
does your character wear make up? Yes
Does your character wear female clothing? Yes
does your character play bass?
is your character homosexual? Yes
http://i48.tinypic.com/j0gvmd.jpg

haaaaaaaahahahah

im learning a lot about myself today

i suppose I should've realised whatever he put in wouldn't be quite the truth.

beat him with Svidrigailov from Crime and Punishment. was already in the database, too.

Roffle... I did John Safran and it actually got it right after one false start - without even knowing he was australian or jewish (at first).

Had never heard of Thomas Kinkade!

Just for the record I said absolutely nothing about John's makeup proclivities when I added him.

I tried to do myself and got Dan Savage! Best day of my life.

Jeepers, second guess was Bill Bryson. Should have quit while I was ahead.

It got Lucille Ball but at first it said "Patricia Heaton" o_0

I have Easter egged the site w/ a little Henry action btw

Trying for Passantino...got Jagger as the first guess.

Here's the third guess for Dom:

http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/8623/picture1ex.png

My mate beat him on John Aldridge, but it knew who he was when he typed it in afterwards, so I suspect he answered one of the questions wrong earlier on.

Just for the record I said absolutely nothing about John's makeup proclivities when I added him.

lol but you said he wore female clothes and was homosexual LOL

oh dear lord king boy pato has added Dom Passantino. It took 16 guesses after it asked is he a writer(yes) is he hated?(yes) is he european?(yes) is he english(no) is he famous due to internet? (yes)

lol but you said he wore female clothes and was homosexual LOL

look I cannot be held responsible for Akinator's assumptions

rofl

Got: Greg Oden, Daria
Didn't get: Tennyson (guessed Wordsworth), Troilus (guessed Achilles)

(TBF it might have got Troilus if I hadn't said "no" to the question abt "Greek origins" - I guess you have to answer as most ppl would)

The age questions for sportspeople kinda suck - it's gonna get an incredibly strong "yes" weighting for 'is this character aged 20-25' for, say, Adrian Peterson, that it's gonna have to unlearn in a few years.

How do you add questions and pictures?

Character to find valid : Hal Incandenza

Interesting. I just used him without knowing that you did it earlier. It took way longer and one incorrect guess (Holden Caufield).

How do you add questions and pictures?

I don't think you can for either. I assume whoever is behind the game adds pics as new characters are added to the database if there's top google hits for the characters name. Ned is obviously famous enough for AMG while LJ isn't.

HAHA I BEAT IT

TONY MICELLI BITCHES

http://polistars.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/tony-danza-towel.jpg

it got my first 3 pretty quickly (Link, Bruce Forsyth, Madonna) but it took him three attempts to guess my Popeye

if i knew i could try "my popeye" i would have

ha! finally beat it with miki berenyi

(v. v. disappointed i wasn't in it)

i've added myself and still can't get myself FAIL :-(

no offence but who are you? I've only seen you posting round here recently (did you post before under a different name)

I don't think you can for either. I assume whoever is behind the game adds pics as new characters are added to the database if there's top google hits for the characters name. Ned is obviously famous enough for AMG while LJ isn't.

Weirdly though if you click 'added questions' you get a list and the usernames of ppl who added them!

I beat it with Tim Quirk.

ha, he guessed Pete Best for Lol Tolhurst

haha also guessed Kevin Rowland and Alan Wilder

and Topper Headron

hahaha had to go through Robert Plant to get Martin L Gore

wtf This came up while i was looking for dizzee rascal. was this you dan? Fess up!
http://i47.tinypic.com/358o0mh.jpg

hahahaha that was not me but I wish it had been!

This is going to get more and more innacurate as everybody on the internet adds themselves, their family, their neighbour, their neighbour's dog, etc., etc., right?

innacurate

inaccurate - inaccurate spelling

I think 20q got consistently worse as time went on, but this seems to have a better algorithm.

i did myself and got ira glass (though xhuckx and ned were alternate suggestions)

I beat it with Alice Longworth.

I beat him with "a stick"

teenage and american lol
xposts

haha it got Manuel Rodríguez.

didn't know who shane mcconkey is (was RIP)

Soon the akinator will be full of every ilxor

It didn't get Jimmy Saville, one guess being Tim Westwood.

Soon the akinator will be full of every ilxor

http://i50.tinypic.com/6s5dgw.jpg

see anything?

my favorite experience with this was when I tried Bez:

- Is he in a rock band?
yes
- Does he play guitar?
no
- Does he sing?
no
- Does he play bass?
no
- Does he play drums?
not really
- Does he play keyboards?
no

Okay hold on

did he get him?
xp

lol, i was trying to do ta-nehisi coates and got ned raggett as guess #2

This is seriously one of the best compliments I have ever received.

dude i thought this ned raggett business was a joke and the thing got it after 7 questions

lol hes getting better!

xpost - I think it took two tries. There was a short, coincidental lag after it went through those instruments, which made it seem as if the algorithm were eying me skeptically. But, you know, unless it's going to ask me about dancing or hand percussion, the answer to whether Bez does anything is just gonna keep being no

Do you think it will ask if he operated the guitarists pedals so it can distinguish between Bez and Cressa?

I suppose bez did appear in a reality tv show in the uk so that could help.

other than the fact noone actually remembers cressa apart from his mum

Will it guess Barry Mooncult?

It missed Helen Thomas, although Madeleine Albright was a good guess, I suppose.

I hate when it gets things on the first guess (Asterix).

I wish there was a photo of Ned's face when he saw this thread.

it missed David Kilgour although im not surprised

bit weirded out by how fast it got "Stay Puft Marshmallow Man" and "Mitsuharu Misawa"

I wish there was a photo of Ned's face when he saw this thread.

It was suitably confused.

I imagine it looked like this:

http://www.mediabistro.com/agencyspy/original/Confused.jpg

...maybe not so nasal.

i'm going to liveblog Jon Gosselin 4 u

1: does your character live in America?

yes

2: Has your character really existed?

yes he's reallllllly existed man

Got DFW super fast, but I never know what "is this character into politics" means - dude wrote a book about McCain! Why is the expected answer 'No'?

3 is your character a singer?

no

4 is your character an actor?

this is tough... i choose not really

5 is your character a woman?

nope

6 is your character linked with sports?

no

7 is your character famous thanks to television

yessss

8 is your character still working?

err... not really?

9 is your character famous from a TV series

yes

10 is your character fat?

kinda

11 has your character played in a tv show that takes place on a beach?

lol no

12 does your character have a son

oh you betcha

13 does your character have black hair?

yesss

now it's just toying with me

14 does your characters name apear in the title of the TV series?

yes

15 is your character asian?

he's half filipino so that's like 1/4th asian ..? where's jaxon? i'll put partially

16 is your character a comical actor?

getting colder... wtf?

no

I think of...

Jon Gosselin

16 questions.

FIN

Gosselin's mother, a native of Hawaii, is Korean American, and his father was of French, Irish, and Welsh descent.[3]

whoops... sorry Jon!

Minimal akinator descriptions of people:

Chris Paul: Unmarried American basketball player, not linked with magic, who won a medal at the 2008 Olympic games and has no tattoos.

Shakespeare: English male writer, not always dressed in black*, who lived in neither the 20th nor the 19th century, and a book of whose has been adapted for the screen.

*: After some thought I realised this eliminated... Laurence Sterne!

Shakespeare: English male writer, not always dressed in black*, who lived in neither the 20th nor the 19th century, and a book of whose has been adapted for the screen.

^^ Does this mean it doesn't have Defoe?

didn't get Carter from nightingales but managed optimus prime

Defoe stumped it, but it did have an entry ready to add the info to.

I'd have thought that gay, black male criminal who uses guns on a TV series would be enough for it to guess Omar Little, but first it had to ask me if the show were animated. Then if he wore a coat.

beat it with: félix fénéon, several minor wot characters
lost with: shigeru miyamoto in mb 12 qns (like 80+ ppl already played with him)

Just beat it twice in a row w/

Gabriel Fauré, and
John Singer Sargent

beat it with Chris Marker

it guessed godard, besson, and milan kundera wtf

It thinks John Justen is Chad Kroeger (Nickelback) now

now Paul Banks (Interpol Singer)

I also beat it with me and vainly put my name in.

It gave me Anna Wintour, Segolene Royal and one other and did not get Carine Roitfeld.

uh the 'one other' was "your boss"...

is momus in it?

beat it with Gordon Burns

That sounds like a worse than Tuomas thread.

Beat it with Phileas Fogg; gave it 10 more questions, still didn't get it right

it guesses chris evans if you answer that he has ginger hair and if people hate him.

I beat akinator with Lee Atwater. I suppose his infamy and minor celebrity was not enough for him to be listed.

beat it on the first try with Eddie Hazel, who he guessed was John Coltrane lolz

favorite question: is your person in love?

it got eddie hazel after guessing jimi hendrix and arthur lee which is pretty fair

Got : Gulliver Foyle from The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
Didn't get : Mary Henry from Carnival Of Souls

Beat it with Philip Jose Farmer, D. Boon and R. Crumb. (It picked Philip Roth for the last.)

I'm probably picking characters that are way too obvious (Seinfeld, Jason Bourne, Alvy Singer, Robin the Boy Wonder), but it's batting 1000 so far. Time to dig deep.

It got Stuntman Mike super quick. Damn, this thing is good.

got: Dolly the cloned sheep (though it guessed Mother Teresa in the first round, and I'ma not even gonna try to make sense of that)
didn't get: Mary Hopkin

It got Pat from SNL, but I finally stumped it with Strong Guy from X-Factor. Boo ya.

It got Todd Rundgren with a frighteningly low number of really vague questions. Weird.

got: Dolly the cloned sheep (though it guessed Mother Teresa in the first round, and I'ma not even gonna try to make sense of that)

hahaha

Is he European? Yes.
English? Yes.
On TV? Yes.
something to do with cooking? No.
cars? No.
animals? Yes.
Is he older than 50? Yes.
Is he sarcastic? No.

David Attenborough!

Is he European? Yes.
English? Yes.
On TV? Yes.
something to do with cooking? No.
cars? No.
animals? Yes.
Is he older than 50? Yes.
Is he sarcastic? Yes.
Is he a comical actor? No.

David Attenborough!

Just beat it with Scott McDonald, but it got Artur Boruc on the 20th question (one of which was, after establishing he was a European goalkeeper who had played at the 200 World Cup, "does your character appear in a manga?")

Didn't notice someone had already done Jeff Stelling on here. It took about 25 questions to get him, after first guessing Terry Wogan.

Couldn't get Dean Gaffney, it guessed Declan Donnolly and Jeremy Kyle

Got SuperHans off a pile of really vague stuff, but didn't get Becky Granger from Coronation Street.

It got Jack Duckworth

Awesome game!

lol at "has your character killed humans" when they worked out I was talking about an ex-footballer working for a TV channel. So, obviously, it guessed Frankie Boyle. (was Charli

e Nicholas. I win. Again)

I have no idea what happened there.

didn't get: Anastasia Krupnik, Drew Daniel, St. Anselm of Canterbury, Jean Genet (!), Felix Gonzalez Torres, Agnes Martin. But it did get yer wan from lost in translation after the vaguest questions

Didn't get Alex Katz

Hang on, I just had "is your character gay" "no" "is your character homosexual" as two consecutive questions. It also keeps asking things like "is your character from a Balkan country" after I've already said they are from Australia.

It got Anton Du Beke after 30 questions, but the first guess was Barry Scott from the Cillit Bang adverts.

It also keeps asking things like "is your character from a Balkan country" after I've already said they are from Australia.

To get people for whom users answer incorrectly, it can't trust the answers its given absolutely (for instance, it got Nadine Coyle even though I unthinkingly said 'yes' to "is this person English". So if the only thing separating your Harry Kewell from its Hristo Stoichkov is that you said 'yes' to 'are they australian', it needs to check, and it knows that "are they from a Balkan country" is a good way of doing that?

It got Iolo (from Ultima) after 15 tries, but it missed Phil Judd, Robert Silverberg, Nikki Sudden, Andrew Plotkin, Graham Nelson, Ally (from Photopia) and Black (from Jigsaw). I think I made the thing dump core after the last few tries, so I had to stop.

Haha CGLD - I tried Primo Varicella!

beat it with peggy olsen, it guessed ally mcbeal

34 to get Werner Herzog now, and it seemed like it was so close... "Is your character a film director" "Is your character German" - then goes off into "Is you character linked with videogames" and wastes nine more questions.

beat it with oscar robertson

beat it first time out with W. Edwards Deming

I beat him with Curtis Mayfield(!) and Orpheus(!!).

beat it with chris ware

And yet it totally guessed Jimmy Corrigan the other day...

"Is your character a film director" "Is your character German" - then goes off into "Is you character linked with videogames" and wastes nine more questions.

Right? This thing wastes questions like Americans waste food. And it seems to ask the same questions or contradictory questions ("Is your character green?" "Yes." "Is your character orange?") all the time. Still, it's beat me on a number of seemingly obscure attempts (I toughened it up after my first few attempts, which it guessed all too quickly).

It may have guessed Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan, but it didn't guess the original Jimmy Corrigan, aka The Spectre.

I beat it with Brian Krakow.

Right? This thing wastes questions like Americans waste food.

Check 'details' after its guessed - if the "expected answer" was blue, it was trying to learn the answer to a question even though it already basically knew who yr dude was.

Beat it with Patterson Hood

Beat it with Carver from the Wire

haha i beat it with matthew yglesias, its final guess was ned raggett

OMG this thing

First tried Lady MacBeth (trivial), then Marty McFly (once it asked "does your character play the guitar" only 14 questions in, I knew I was beat), was floored when it correctly picked The Undertaker after 30 questions and one wrong guess.

It got Misawa and Liger in one guess, dude

I bought the app from iTunes and suddenly today it started asking the questions in French; there is no language selection option so I'm not sure what to do...

yeah, it was saying rejouir for a long time

i think the key is thinking of people like Jean Baudrillard.

M****** D. R*******
i was thinking of david tibet last night. at first it got osama bin laden, but then it got dt on the second try.
about a minute ago

I thought it would be fun to play this game in 2016, but

http://i.imgur.com/TXdUj5m.png

every goddamn time

http://i.imgur.com/VQaWd51.png

tbf I'm impressed that it only took him 25 questions to come up with Shkreli. "Is your character bad" was the clincher.

Just schooled him. He doesn't know many speedrunners apparently.

Stumped him with David Axelrod the musician.

He doesn't know Stanislaw Lem stuff very well either.

Took 46 questions to get Shostakovich, although tbf there were a few answers I didn't know and didn't feel like looking up.

Beat it with Amiri Baraka

something seems broken though, it asked questions that were effectively the same multiple times.