A to Z Blog Challenge 2021 – Letter Q – 20 Questions
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It’s that time again for the April A to Z Blog Challenge. I’ve done this one for quite a few years, and it’s always fun.
This time I decided to go with the miscellaneous type posts, which some days will be whatever I want, and other days will be a resurrection of my older posts that pretty much no one or very few ever saw.
So, here we go with Letter Q …
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20 Q (the game)
Based on a parlor game called Twenty Questions, Robin Burgener, in 1988, invented a hand held electronic game he called 20Q. He was experimenting with using AI – Artificial Intellegence.
When you turn this game on, it will ask you to think of something for it to guess. It has a display screen that you can read it’s questions, and buttons you can push, to log in your answer, either yes, no, sometimes, or unknown.
This ‘toy’ will ask you a series of 20 simple questions. As you keep answering the questions posed, the device will build on them, to ultimately guess what you were thinking about.
In between the questions, it will make funny comments to you. On the package it comes in it states that it can read your mind. One of the comments it makes, is that it is spooky how it knows what you are thinking.
It is not programmed. It somehow ‘learns’ from every answer you give, and every time turns out different. Most of the time it guesses right!
I have two of these 20Q games, and have been amazed at how it can even do this. It occasionally does miss the answer, and will make a funny comment about how you can’t win them all.
I think it is a bit weird to be holding a sort of ‘mini brain’ right there in my hand. Like it says…it’s spooky!
That sounds like a fun game to have.
Thanks, Lauren! It is fun, and so strange how it really most times guesses what you’re thinking of, no matter what it is. 🙂
Thanks for helping with my scavenger hunt!
Thanks, Paula! Glad this helped! 🙂
This sounds so cool.
Thanks, Sadje! I’ve really had fun playing around with the ones I have. 🙂
You’re welcome 😉
I think we had one of those once. It is kind of spooky how it knows, but actually, given how much Siri or Alexa know what we want before we ask sometimes, it shouldn’t surprise us.
Thanks, Janet! I need to get mine out again – probably needs a new battery. So strange how it works. We don’t have Alexa but sometimes I mess around asking Siri something on the phone. 🙂
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