It can read your mind!

Posted by Balding Chimp on Nov. 30, 2007, 7:42 p.m.

Ever play a toy so smart you would swear it was posessed? That describes the handheld toy 20Q pretty well. (Don't own one? Not a problem….you can play a simulated version of it for free online…link to follow…)

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This is the model I have. Comes in different colors, but this thing is fantastic at figuring out what you are thinking of.

I am sure everybody has played, if not at leat heard of the game 20 Questions. One person thinks of something and the other person asks a serries of questions trying to narrow things down to guess what you are thinking of. Well, this little toy is WAY smarter than you can imagine!

Now you won't get an answer like "You were thinking of a Casio CTK-551 Keyboard….or something so picky. But the answers this thing will throw at you will shock you most of the time. I would say it has like 90% to 95% accuracy when it comes to the things I throw at it.

The online version you can play for free here….but make sure you don't play the default game that the page goes to…. read on….

http://www.20q.net

From there click on "Other Games" in the upper right.

On the next page select the round looking toy in the upper left. This is basically the same as the real toy, only with a couple extra buttons. Be as "honest" with your answers as possible or pick the best answer you think will fit…..and prepare to be amazed!

I had someone's jaw drop when it correctly guessed "Are you thinking of a pet rat?". My brother was in shock when if correctly guessed "Are you thinking of a slinky?". Yep…I have tried this thing over and over, and it's accuracy is really unbelievable. Even if it were wrong, many times it is so close you would still give it credit.

I have had it guess correcetly things like "Is it a bottle of window cleaner?, Ist it a pyramid?, is it a Rubik's Cube?…etc…"

I find it incredible that it has so many answers in memory…let alone, knowing which questions to ask to get that answer. Sometimes it may take it going to 25 to 30 questions to get the answer, but that is still VERY impressive for such a small little machine.

Comments

Jabberwock 17 years ago

I beat it on the color yellow, though.