'Akinator' Knows All

[FlyTexas]

Akinator still has a perfect record with me although it really struggled with the American actress Dorothy Lamour. We went through a few rounds of questions before it finally got that one right. Another one of my characters gave it a run for its money. At one point it asked (completely out of the blue) if my character likes potatoes...it then said my character sounds like his daughter.

Brian

[BAe146]

I stumped it twice.

Donald Douglas- It kept guessing Howard Hughes, William Boeing, Bill Lear, Kelly Johnson

G.E. Smith- It went through a lot of different musicians, but never a blues guitarist, even though that was one of the questions.

[Chris Trott]

It took two tries for it to guess Jeremy Clarkson for me even though it kept asking all the right questions after the 5th question. Oddly enough, the 3rd question (after "are they a movie actor" and then "are they on TV") was were they on a show about cars. It went sideways as it kept wanting to pick "Captain Slow" and "the Short One" based on its questions. Funniest one (and most true) - "Is this person full of themselves?" First pick was Tiff Needell of all people.

I'll try some semi-obscure historical figures and see how it does.

EDIT: Stumped it on the first try with William F. "Bull" Halsey, Jr.. It guessed (in order) - Boobs (yes, Boobs), Adm. Chester W. Nimitz (very close), Gen. Douglas MacArthur (getting colder), Col. John W. Browning (really?), Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. (right era, wrong service, wrong theater), Audie Murphy (frozen), and Gen. Omar Bradley (right era, wrong service, wrong theater).

Funniest part was it asked if my character was involved with the sea (yes), was a sailor or pirate (yes - sailor), but only its second guess was actually a Navy man. Oh well.

[Paul K]

He got Hitler and Neil Armstrong right very quickly, but only got Dmitri Shostakovich on the second try, Stravinski being his first guess. He's still thinking about Mr Patel at the newsagents.

[delticbob]

Narff, narff Gotcha.

Tried our 'friend' on Rin Tin Tin & she/he/it offered Lassie.

Bob

[simondix]

Narff, narff Gotcha.

Tried our 'friend' on Rin Tin Tin & she/he/it offered Lassie.

Bob

Barking up the wrong tree was he? Obviously dogged by the wrong answers.

[Tako_Kichi]

Narff, narff Gotcha.

Tried our 'friend' on Rin Tin Tin & she/he/it offered Lassie.

Bob

Barking up the wrong tree was he? Obviously dogged by the wrong answers.

Ohhh, that's a bit ruff!

[simondix]

Yeah, life's a bitch!

[TobyV]

Hmmm, someone young obvious and American it got straight away, I completely stumped it with "Patrick Moore" and another British actress it took a few goes to get. Not bad though, not bad. Amazing that you can really (from whatever set of questions and individuals it has) narrow people down that quickly with relatively broad questions.

[Garry Russell]

it's similar to the font finder software that eliminates, question by question, various aspects to finally come up with something nothing at all like what you wanted