Akinator, the web genius who's developer must've been one very bored guy.

[Veret]

It got Femshep, Dr. McNinja, the Black Hat Guy from XKCD, and Gnome Chomsky (the gnome from Half-Life), but then took two tries to get Erin Stout. Tsk. I'm gonna go see what it knows about Tim Langdell now.

EDIT: Victory! Langdell was in the database, but Akinator was completely unable to guess him. Notable incorrect guesses include Bill Gates and IcyFrog.

 

[Thespian]

It sucks at anything from a book. Anything.

Nah. It got Robert Neville and a few obscure novels I read.

 

[Kargathia]

I was pretty pleasantly surprised that he guessed Kukichiyo on his first guess, but stumped it with Gudrun. Guess his normal public doesn't really enjoy early German literature. (Truth to be told: I can't blame them)

He got James Maynard Keenan on his third try, which somewhat surprised me - figured he'd be more known than that.

EDIT: he neither did get Pope Julius II - but he did guess pretty quickly that I was talking about a renaissance pope. Sadly he went offtopic after trying Clement VII.

He's very good at popular culture, but it's not that hard to beat him if you start on the stuff that's probably unknown to the average 15-25 year old.

 

[CarlMin]

I've found Bolt on it like a thousand times. I love it!

 

[BonzaiPro]

I stumped it my using a little known Youtube Let's Player. Every other time I tried, it got me!

 

[Kopikatsu]

...It guessed Nathan Drake. SHEEEEEEET.

That thing is damn impressive. Bookmarking it.

HA! I fooled him with Hugo Strange. He said Two-Face.

Edit: ...Aaaaand then I answered five more questions and he got it right. CURSES

 

[redisforever]

Wow, impressive stuff! It guessed everything so far!

 

[NezumiiroKitsune]

I cannot believe it got Regulus Black. I'm going to have to be very cunning.

It's quite impressive, but so was 20Q. It's just a huge database with associated answers that becomes more sophisticated with use. Makes you smile non the less though. I'm going to play with it some more, I'll post if I manage to beat it.

It got Lauren Faust after 30.

Theon Greyjoy 22.

How it got Sansa Stark after just 20...

The Great God Om took it 37!

 

[nin_ninja]

It sucks at anything from a book. Anything.

You kiddin. It got Wheel of Time characters, iRobot characters, even characters from the Halo books.

 

[Martyr4thecause]

Alright I checked it out, and was frankly amazed. I'm a huge halo fan and I though the expanded universe novels may be obscure enough to fool it. It succeeded at guessing fred, kurt, kelly, linda within two guesses, got Albert Einstein first try, but I finally defeated it using Ash: The 12 year old Spartan 3 graduate leader from ghosts of onyx . The three guesses it used were a) your own unique character [wrong] b) Fred-104 of Halo [wrong] amd c) Kurt-051 of Halo. Then he congratulated me on winning and I told him about the character Its not so hard

Gotta give it credit though, It took me five tries to win, so its about 80% accurate v.s. unimaginative users

 

[Kopikatsu]

HA. I finally won. For some reason, he couldn't guess Lara Croft.

She was in the short list of 'Is your character here?' that's given if you 'beat' him, though.

 

[Raizekage]

Yea I remember this thing, it's awesome.

So far it's guessed correctly:

Naruto Uzumaki
Charlie Harper
Tsunade
Jake Harper


hmm It's not guessing Diora Baird. Something like 35+ questions and it keeps guessing incorrectly.

Edit: It admitted defeat with Diora Baird.

 

[Xanadu84]

Ooh, just did one that he had no idea on.

Fred, the Mind Flayer from DDO.

 

[FMAylward]

It sucks are getting the correct person from Rune Factory. It got one on the 3rd guess and didn't get the five others I tried, 3 were on the list at the end, one wasn't and one had special circumstances meaning she was "half" on the list.

I would try some more but it either guessed them or they were also on the list of possibles.

 

[Raizekage]

Well 60+ questions and two defeats later it still can't guess Diora Baird. lol

 

[GiantRaven]

I really like how it can ask one specific question and you know it's working it's way straight to what you're thinking of.

Is your character gay? - My answer: possibly

The next two questions:
Is your character heavily muscled?
Is your character know for working with cars?

Curse you Akinator!

 

[Xorph]

Holy crap, it got the Hive Tyrant from 40k in 2 tries (its 1st guess was Alien Hominid), Noel Vermillion from Blazblue, Sissel from Ghost Trick, and the Brotagonist from Persona 4. I'm all out of semi-obscure characters D:

 

[Loop Stricken]

Ah yes, this again.

Well, he guessed Vinyl Scratch.
And Taiga from Toradora!
And Stocking from PS&G
And Ciaphas Cain [HEADING=1] HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!![/HEADING]

 

[Raizekage]

It couldn't guess Lugia from Pokemon. Some of the question sequences seem severely flawed.

It would ask me if the character was from the Pokemon series, I would say yes, and then later it would ask me if the character was in a novel. I was like wtf?

 

[hopeneverdies]

Son of a fuck, it guessed Nepeta on the first try.

The last ten questions it even knew I was referring to Homestuck.

I stumped him with Cans.