What makes this game engaging is mainly the fact that you have to think about the right answers on Akinator’s questions, and the suspense of whether he finds out about your clever choice.Īpart from that, there are some engagement-related aspects where ‘Akinator’ is good, but not great. What’s your analysis of this game’s engagement? In my case, it guessed ‘Scar’ from Lion King and Aristotle right away, and Helmut Kohl at the second attempt.įor the sake of scientific inquiry, I gave Akinator randomly generated answers, and after guessing that I was thinking about Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelsohn, or Johannes Brahms, it asked some confused questions about my character’s hairstyle and origin and finally settled on ‘someone who is inappropriate for young audiences’.Įven though Akinator seems to be omniscient, he is forgiving of our patchy knowledge, and accepts answers like ‘I don’t know’ and ‘maybe’.Īlright, let’s continue this ‘scientific inquiry’. When it has enough information, it makes a first guess of the character, and if it doesn’t succeed, it asks some more questions before making another attempt. The success rate of Akinator is impressively high, at least in my samples. It does so by narrowing down the possible candidates through a series of yes-no (‘polar’) questions in the style of ‘ 20 questions’. I was shocked when the Akinator knew “Demacia.' Even the Akinator is down on memes.Akinator is the name of a genie that tries to guess which character the user is thinking about. The last character gets two screenshots because I feel they are both completely necessary, due to how iconic he is. So here are '15 examples of awkward moments when you know the Akinator knows League of Legends champions:' When the program has the question, “Does your character belong to the ‘ League of Legends’ game?” you learn you have no chance of sneaking one past it.ĭue to how specific these questions were I screenshoted a bunch of them on my phone after it asked me if the character was from LoL and decided to make a post out of them. This time around I was typing in some League of Legends champions and some of the questions the Akinator was asking were so damn specific that I could just tell that the AI knew exactly what character I was thinking of.

You can try it out on the web for free but you can also download the app on iOS, Google Play, and WP Marketplace. The genie doesn’t seem to know sports figures all that well though. I’ve stumped him a few times most time the AI is freakish. He is a ’20 questions’ sort of game that will eerily figure out what ever character you’re thinking of – from ANYTHING.

For those of you who don’t know who the Akinator is… he’s a web genie.

Akinator the web genie game