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83344
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Monday
He got Sanguinius!
He didn't get Arkio.
He got Ragnar Blackmane =O
He did not get the Omnissiah
He got Justicar Alaric
He got Leman Russ
He got Abaddon the Despoiler
He got Kal Skirata (Second try however)
He got Wario
He got Dilbert
He got Illidan
He didn't get Lord Gearhart
He did get Michael J. Caboose
He did get Deathwing
He got Andross (3rd try though)
This guy is good...
Post by
Squishalot
Given 40 questions, the database can narrow down a huge number of possibilities - even if you take the larger proportion of results for each question, you can theoretically reduce the possible sample by 25% each question, 40 times over.
Anyway, he came pretty close - I used Captain Henry Gloval from Robotech, and his final guess was Rick Hunter. Though I guess, in fairness, it's confusing seeing as Gloval is Russian, whereas Bruno Global from Macross is Italian.
Edit: Lol... "Question no. 10: Is your character from the Final Fantasy game series?" The next 10 questions simply ruled out Tifa, Lulu, Aeris, Yuna and Garnet and co, one by one...
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Adamsm
Heh, he couldn't get Vanyel Ashkevron, even though he had him on the list.
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Squishalot
Heh, he couldn't get Vanyel Ashkevron, even though he had him on the list.
That probably means that either you, or the community generally, don't answer the questions correctly :)
Didn't get Jillian from Erfworld.
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Adamsm
Heh, he couldn't get Vanyel Ashkevron, even though he had him on the list.
That probably means that either you, or the community generally, don't answer the questions correctly :)
Didn't get Jillian from Erfworld.
Hey now, I answered them all correctly, the thing is just semi-easy to stump; it also offered up a character from Forgotten Realms, Eragon, and the Witcher.
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414992
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Squishalot
Heh, he couldn't get Vanyel Ashkevron, even though he had him on the list.
That probably means that either you, or the community generally, don't answer the questions correctly :)
Didn't get Jillian from Erfworld.
Hey now, I answered them all correctly, the thing is just semi-easy to stump; it also offered up a character from Forgotten Realms, Eragon, and the Witcher.
It's the community's fault then. "Does your character fight demons?" As if the community response for Rinoa is "Don't know". :P
If it's easy to stump, and it asks questions that appear repetitive (eg, "Is your character's hair colour blonde? -> Yes" "Is your character's hair colour Red?" ?) then it's because it thinks you've answered something differently to what it expects.
Wow, picked up Vaarsuvius in 12 questions, though that's entirely unexpected when the response to "Is your character female?" is "I don't know", twice, no less.
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414992
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Squishalot
Here's a challenge - what's the character that's resulted in the genie guessing it the fastest?
Vaarsuvius (from Order of the Stick) took just 12 guesses to get. Can anyone beat that with an even more obvious character?
Mickey Mouse also took 12 guesses to get, as did Brittney Spears - I'm beginning to think there's a minimum.
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Squishalot
Here's a challenge - what's the character that's resulted in the genie guessing it the fastest?
Vaarsuvius (from Order of the Stick) took just 12 guesses to get. Can anyone beat that with an even more obvious character?
13 for Pikachu
12 for Barack Obama
12 for Bugs Bunny...
12 seems to be the limit.
12 for the Devil (i.e. Lucifer) - the questions after it worked it out were absurd:
5) Is your character in the Bible? Yes!
6) Is your character famous for having created the world? No!
7) Does your character have horns? Yes!
Ok, he's onto it!
8) Does your character have bobbed hair? ... wtf?
9) Is your character associated with snakes ? Yes! That's more like it!
10) Does your character have green skin? ... or not...
11) Does your character do reviews? .... O_o;;
12) Does your character have yellow skin? .... please let this be the last question...
It appears that even if they know with 100% likelihood, the process is required to ask fact-finding questions anyway to try to build up confidence in the data it's obtained about the characters.
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MyTie
I won with 'the protagonist' from Crystalis
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Interest
LOL I stumped him with Richard from Sword of Truth.
Blah. Got me on the second try.
Stumped with Ajihad from the Inheritance Cycle.
Yet he can get Eragon. That's kinda...depressing.
Post by
Heckler
We had to build one of these (except ours was simply 'Yes' or 'No' questions) using binary search trees in Java in one of my programming classes, it was pretty interesting =)
If it works at all like ours, then the quickest answer should take ~Log-base-2(total number of Characters in the database) guesses; and it also means the more characters get added, the further down it moves. If 12 steps is the quickest, you might venture a guess that there are at least 2^12 = 4096 names in the d-base (although its probabaly
much
higher due to the fact that you can pick from 5 choices in his, and not just 2 like ours).
I stumped him with Valentine Wiggin (Ender's sister) and Malakili (the Rancor handler from Return of the Jedi), but they were both in his database =D He got Wedge Antilles really quickly.
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Interest
Got him with an Advance Wars character.
HAHA.
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