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Not exactly what you're looking for, but something similar and quite bluffing regarding choice prediction : https://en.akinator.com/game

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Both 20q and Akinator failed to get what I was thinking of in under 20 questions: A fuel cap.

Now that I mention this and others are trying it, maybe the result will be better though!

I tried akinator with chap stick (on my desk), it got it after 50 questions. I think it's much better with people than objects.

It seems to have become quite bad with people too. I think it's been overloaded and has too many things to consider now. I tried to get it to guess George VI, and despite telling it he was dead for over 20 years it asked me if he had over 100,000 subscribers or had 'collaborated with Shawn Mendes', this was within the first 15 questions.

It used to almost always know at 20 questions, not it feels like it goes to at least 25 even when it knows the answer

Akinator specifically says to pick a fictional or non-fictional character. I don't think a fuel cap meets the criteria.

Except the part in the theme selector that asks you if you want to select between Characters, Objects and Animals.

https://en.akinator.com/theme-selection

Except when accessing on mobile and it doesn't and the theme selector redirects to home.

I was thinking of a shower head, but 20q disagreed with me on whether it comes in a box and some other minor stuff. So yeah, not very impressive. Akinator, on the other hand, knew my uni algorithms teacher.

I tried "flying shuttle" and Akinator completely flubbed it. For characters, "Thomas Cranmer" also really mystified it.

Some of the questions I'm staring at trying to figure out what the answer it expects is. "Is your character British?" is hard to answer for Thomas Cranmer, since while he is English, he lived at before the Scottish king inherited the English throne, let alone the Act of Union that created Great Britain. Or for the flying shuttle, "does it move?" left me with a response of "what do you mean by 'move'?"

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