The amazing Akinator

[Harry]

This worked for me using Lizzie as the character. However, when I tried Dicken's David Copperfield, it guessed Oliver Twist. Close. Try it.

http://www.akinator.mobi/

[kssunflower]

This looks fun. Will have to try to stump it when I have more time.

[Yooper]

I was able to stump it with Andrew Borden, but the name is certainly less recognizable than Lizzie.

[Harry]

It worked for me with Ted Williams.

[Yooper]

Stumped it again with Eddie Mathews!

[Yooper]

It guessed correctly for Frank Lloyd Wright, Amelia Earhart, Albert Einstein, and Sherlock Holmes.

[twinsrwe]

Thanks for the link, Harry! This is not only fun, but interesting as well.

This worked for me using Lizzie as the character and assuming she WAS the killer. Then I answered the questions, using Lizzie as the character and assuming she WAS NOT the killer. Both scenarios resulted in the answer of Lizzie Borden.

This also worked for me using the character of Charlie Manson, Princess Diana, Michael Jackson, John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe.

I almost stumped it with Ted Bundy and Ed Gein.

[Harry]

Amazing indeed!

Just got these unlikely 3. Bugs Bunny, Yogi Berra and John Wilkes Booth.

[Yooper]

I almost stumped it with Nathan Bedford Forrest, but it guessed correctly on the third try.

[Tina-Kate]

Very cool Harry!

I tried with Hawley Crippen. It took the thing quite a LOT of guesses, but he did eventually get it.

[twinsrwe]

Well, he correctly guessed Otis Redding, The Black Dahlia, Chief Crazy Horse and Abraham Lincoln.

However, I stumped him with Keith Carradine and Mary Phagan. He asked 61 questions on both of these characters and could not come up with the correct answer!!!

All I can say is, whoever created Akinator is a PURE genius!!! It intrigues me that he will ask the vaguest of questions, and then a couple of specific questions to find the answer.

How does he do this???

[Yooper]

I imagine it is done using process of elimination, step by step. A famous person is needed. First question is male or female, eliminating about half of the population. Dead or alive narrows it further along with how long dead. Field of endeavor, real person or fictional character, etc.

[Fargo]

I kept getting all the same questions until I enabled my cookies.

It took 18 questions to get it when I said I didn't know if she had killed anyone., Lizzie was the first pick.

When I said she never killed anyone (as I do believe) IT took 39 questions and at least 3 wrong answers to get Lizzie

[Fargo]

I tried it again the same way, this time he was stumped 61 questions and 5 wrong answers.

Finally he gave me a list of names to choose from Lizzie was one of them.

Some of the questions this time were different, he asked if she had to do with teaching and if she had to do woth childeren, so I answered yes because of Lizzie's sunday school teaching. That might have thrown him off course a bit.

Towards the end he looked like he was thinking so hard that he might blow a gasket.

[twinsrwe]

Towards the end he looked like he was thinking so hard that he might blow a gasket.

That's what he did when I stumped him with Keith Carradine and Mary Phagan. His expressions were pretty funny!

[Harry]

Very cool Harry!

I tried with Hawley Crippen. It took the thing quite a LOT of guesses, but he did eventually get it.

Great choice, Tina-Kate! A true crime buff murderer.

[Angel]

I stumped it with "Charlemange"