Akinator The Genius

[Moss84]

hxxp://www.akinator.mobi/us

Think about a character, and Akinator will guess him/her. This is pretty cool.

[Neon_Chaos]

It failed to guess Paul Giamatti.

[Sun Tzu]

It successfully guessed Dom Cobb.

Bastard.

[path12]

Wow. It got Ignatius J. Reilly as well.

[OldGiants]

It didn't think of Scrooge McDuck either.

[Sun Tzu]

It took 24 questions, but it eventually nailed "Michael" from The Deer Hunter.

[cuervo72]

It got Snidely Whiplash, but after 30 questions.

[dolfin]

It didn't think of Scrooge McDuck either.

It got my Uncle Scrooge

[Draft Dodger]

it got Wimpy in 18 questions

[Draft Dodger]

wow, Greedo in 15. Impressive

[SteveMax58]

It took 24 questions (and 1 wrong guess) but eventually got Gleek.

[Draft Dodger]

Lucy Pevensie in 17. impressive

[molson]

It took 36 questions and one wrong guess but he eventually got the lead character in the Flight of the Navigator.

[SteveMax58]

He gave up on The Creeper. :)

[PilotMan]

30 questions to get to Natalie Portman's character in Where the Heart Is.

[Mustang]

24 to get to Taarna from Heavy Metal.

It didn't find Hanse Davion (however, was in the DB so.. I might have missed a question)

[JAG]

26 and one wrong guess to get Jon Snow. The wrong guess was Eddard Stark after 20 questions so not too bad (and the questions got much more pointed after the wrong guess). On the other hand, the genius asked me if the character lived in America with two separate questions.

[molson]

only 14 questions to get Johnny from Karate Kid.

[I. J. Reilly]

Wow. It got Ignatius J. Reilly as well.

Well, I am a pretty big deal.

[Mustang]

Jesus Christ in 10. (Just seeing how quickly it can guess common characters). Darth Vader in 12 and himself in 12. (Akinator was used around 360,000 times and Jesus 75K so.. I'm guessing Akinator might be the most used character)


Oh.. and I don't want to go off on a tangent of Jesus as a 'character'...

[CU Tiger]

Took 58 qustions to get Stampy from the Simpsons.
And only 24 to get Danny Ford.....

[Comey]

18 questions to get Tim the Enchanter. But it failed to get Simon Bishop (Greg Kinnear, As Good As It Gets).

[EagleFan]

Nathan Drake in 18.

[MikeVic]

Abed from Community in 20-something, but guessed Fez incorrectly first.

[McLovin]

I defeated the Akinator with Mark Duper !

[StLee]

Jareth, the Goblin King, in 17 questions.

[cuervo72]

It got Fagin under 20, and Vanessa Doofenshmirtz right around it. Pretty good.

[cuervo72]

Damn, Sagwa in 19.

[Raiders Army]

He got Rupert Boneham, but not Commander Cain (original one) nor Matt Kennedy Gould.

[SteveMax58]

He got Earthquake in 22 questions. Pretty solid.

[ColtCrazy]

Indiana Jones, Huckleberry Hound, and Lumiere each in under 15 questions. Very cool.

[cuervo72]

Quark and Carlton Banks both quickly. Yogurt a little longer (high 20s).

edit: it took nearly 40 to get American Maid, who had only been played 18 times. Guessed Wonder Woman at 20 though.

[Eaglesfan27]

Hmmm, am I the only one who can't seem to view that page?

[Draft Dodger]

we've thrown Jango Fett, SkippyJon Jones and one of the cats from the Hunter series. it ultimately got them all.

[stevew]

Hmmm, am I the only one who can't seem to view that page?

Take off the hxxp

[Eaglesfan27]

Thanks. 3 days of call this week combined with house hunting all day today has my brain fried.

[Eaglesfan27]

Got Karl Childers of Slingblade in 24 questions. Impressive.

[Eaglesfan27]

Dola -

And it got Rand Al'Thor in 19 questions.

[Izulde]

Lolita in 16 questions. Nice.

[Izulde]

20 questions and one wrong guess for Quinn Fabray. Should've been 8, but it got caught in an is character real loop that threw it off track.

[Izulde]

It gave up on Rodrigo from Othello after like 68 questions, so I added it to the database.

[Izulde]

Becky Sharp from Vanity Fair in 36 questions. Wow.

[SackAttack]

Holy crap. It got Laharl from Disgaea in 15 moves. Given how generic the questions it was asking were, I completely did not expect that.

[Sun Tzu]

The fact that "Stampy from the Simpsons" in any number of moves is impressive.

[Izulde]

Celes Chere in 17 questions. Yes I'm on a blonde female kick. :P

[Groundhog]

Bruce Campbell in 17.

[dubb93]

Powdered Toast Man in 17. Nailed Randy Savage, Worf, and Spider-Pig quickly as well.

[Izulde]

Finally stumped Akinator on a character that was in the database, Haggar the Witch from Voltron.

[cuervo72]

Sloan Peterson - 20
Phillie Phanatic - 18
Rico (Penguin) - under 20
Simka Gravas - did not get
Ricky Ricardo Jr. - 19

[Izulde]

Smaug in 17.

I really am quite impressed with this thing.

[pbot]

Lloyd Christmas - 19 questions.

[Izulde]

Jim from American Pie in 19. Nicely done.

[pbot]

Lightning McQueen - 12

[cuervo72]

Bill McNeil - 29 questions. It got it after the question "Is your character still alive?" :(

[hoopsguy]

Lt Colonel Nathan Jessup in about 20 questions, after incorrectly guessing Frank Abignale about 5 questions earlier. Played just under 300 times.

19 questions for Bill Simmons, played over 1,000 times.

29 questions for Mr Sinister from X-Men comics, after a wrong guess (around 20) for some character from Crash Bandicoot. Played just under 300 times.

Beat him on "One Armed Man" from Fugitive, although the character was in the database.

18 questions for Michael Irvin, played just over 400 times.

So based on my extremely small sample set, this program does better with sports players than movie characters. Of course, that could also owe to me having more definitive answers to the questions asked about real people as opposed to movie roles where I had to speculate from time to time (more "probably/probably not" answers).

Picked one I thought would be easy, and it was - 16 questions for Don Draper, played over 3,000 times. I knew it was ending soon when questions like "is he a womanizer" and "does the show take place in New York" came up :)

36 questions for Mr. Slate, thought the jig was up after question about character being "barefoot" came up but took a couple more after that. Played 302 times. I'm wondering how hard it is to come up with a character that has been played single digit times.

[fpres]

Buckaroo Banzai in 32 Q's

[lighthousekeeper]

Snorks (around 24 questions) actually I was going for Casey Kelp of the Snorks, but it guess the generic Snorks as the answer.

[fpres]

Red Shirt (Star Trek) in 37 Q's. Nice.

[fpres]

Peri (Perpugilliam) Brown from Doctor Who in 21 Q's. I'm truly impressed.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Wife & kid are now playing

Zelda Fitzgerald took 28 (and a missed guess of Erma Bombeck)
Three-Dog (from Fallout 3) in 19
Big Daddy (from BioShock) in 15
Guy Montag (from Fahrenheit 451) in 21 (the 1,134th try)

[Izulde]

Mew in 12 questions, one of my lowest totals yet.

[Tigercat]

Got the Slurm queen from futurama in right around 20 questions, James Buchanan in right around 10. Feels weird being this impressed over something that is 90% pop culture oriented, but it is impressive.

[Izulde]

Holy shit. 17 for Brandi from Storage Wars.

[Izulde]

Dennis Rodman - 13 questions
Horatio Nelson - 16 questions
Mr. Rochester - 24 with one wrong guess
Dan Marino - 16

A bunch of others I've forgotten.

So far the only two it's missed on where the database already had the character entered was Haggar the Witch from Voltron and the Wu general Taishi Ci from Romance of the Three Kingdoms, where it was in the right ballpark on all of its guesses, but couldn't quite seal the deal.

[stevew]

Shit....it found Joel Anthony.

[Izulde]

Added a third stumper: Catherine Barkley, who was third on his list of next guesses.

[mckerney]

Commander Keen in 18 questions, Commander Video in 39.

[mckerney]

It did not know Joe Garrelli.

[SteveMax58]

Wow...can't believe Ann Darrow had only been played 31 times.

Took 51 questions but it asked a couple of them multiple times and a few which were complete opposites that didnt make sense. Like I answered Yes to it being a female, but it asked me if the character was an adult man. It also asked me at least 3 times if the character lives in the United States, or is an American citizen, and does the character live in the same country as I do. I thought that was kinda silly.

Overall...pretty cool though.

[spleen1015]

I didn't count how many questions, but it guessed Fox Mulder first, then it correctly guessed Jimmy McNulty.

[ColtCrazy]

14 questions to get Arthur Dent. Wow.

[fpres]

30 questions to get to Carly Foulkes (T-Mobile Girl), after guessing Flo (Progressive Insurance Girl) on Q #17.

[ColtCrazy]

Stumped it on Ryo (Tiny) from Battle of the Planets...although twice he did guess other characters from the series, that one wasn't in the data base.

[fpres]

Leon Trotsky in 14 Q's

[miked]

Wowza...about 15 questions for Jeriba 'Jerry' Shigan (Louis Gossett Jr. in Enemy Mines).

[JAG]

Stumped him with R'hllor (not in database) and Nate Newton (in database). Got Jor-El in 26.

[Wolfpack]

Eric Staal in 20
Mike Wazowski in 19
Lorenzo Charles in 40
Jack Ryan in 23
Alfred Pennyworth in 20
Alan Rickman in 25
Stumped it with Kevin Duckworth (though apparently it knew of him, but I guess my answers kept him from going in that direction)

[Sun Tzu]

Wowza...about 15 questions for Jeriba 'Jerry' Shigan (Louis Gossett Jr. in Enemy Mines).

Daaaawich.

[larrymcg421]

Josh Lyman - 20
Jeremy Goodwin - Did not get
Eric Taylor - 27 (Guessed Danny Tanner)
Hoban "Wash" Washburne - 19
Bender (Futurama) - 13
Orko - 17
Neville Longbottom - 13

[ColtCrazy]

16 for Elizabeth Bennett.
19 for Del Griffith
13 for Hong Kong Phooey

Going to try some British characters next.

[ntndeacon]

it did not get Gutman from the Maltese Falcon, though it was in its lists

[oykib]

37 questions for Aqualad. It guessed wrong twice.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Took 27 to get Jim Ross (guessed Bob Costas at 21)

[britrock88]

I went for it with Harold and Maude. I was impressed that it got to Maude in 19. Harold, though... it took 38 questions and 3 wrong guesses (including the accusation that I wasn't thinking of anyone at all!).

[stevew]

Didnt get Mason from Surviving the Game. It was in there, so I may have answered a few questions wrong. Did get Jodie Fosters character from Panic Room.

[ColtCrazy]

Okay, British TV character time...

19 to get Basil Fawlty (Fawlty Towers)
27 to get Mr. Humphries (Are You Being Served)
29 to get Rik (Young Ones)

Impressive.

[Eaglesfan27]

I stumped him with John Carter (ER.) It kept focusing on characters from House even though I said it was a show that was off the air which I found amusing.