20Q Twenty Questions Game
By Bartoni in Toys. November 8, 2006
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Based on the old 'animal, vegetable or mineral?' game '20 Questions', this little ball of electronics attempts to guess what you're thinking -- and usually does. We've no idea how it manages it, something to do with artificial neural networks maybe? It's all very, very clever.
The idea of the game is to think of anything, absolutely anything from a teapot to your uncle, then answer the questions the 20Q throws at you as honestly and accurately as you can. The twenty questions will be answerable with either "yes", "no", "maybe" or "don't know". After 20 questions it will attempt to answer, if it's correct you lose.
The original was a Christmas hit last year keeping all family members entertained well into the Christmas holidays. Version 2 claims to be even smarter and more accurate than the original. Which sounds impressive as version one could answer most of what you threw at it, including hard to define things like love and infinity.
A thinking 20Q
Well worth the £8, as almost everyone I've shown it to has wanted one. These could easily sell for double the price!
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