Twenty Questions - Game 100

[Foxcastle]

Twenty Questions - Game 99

1 Henry Hill / cdngooner
2 Colonel Kurtz / VillageIdiot
3 Kieffer Moore / damo666
4 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Hamish
5 Anne Frank / Trigfea63
6 Dalai Lama / Hamish
7 Woody / Ginge86
8 Queen Elizabeth II / aardvarkarmy
9 Mahatma Gandhi / Octavious
10 Trish Stratus / VillageIdiot
11 Judas / VillageIdiot
12 HG Wells / VillageIdiot
13 Pable Escobar / Doug7878
14 Vanna White / cdngooner
15 Napoleon Bonaparte / Ferdack
16 Confucius / Doug7878
17 Olivia de Havilland / SenatorNyxen
18 Allan Calhamer / Jaguar
19 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez / cdngooner
20 Johnny Rotten [Lydon] / Doug7878
21 Thomas Jefferson / cdngooner
22 Steven Sondheim / Doug7878
23 Milton Friedman / Jaguar
24 Muammar Gaddafi / dammo666
25 Guy Fawkes / Jamiet99uk
26 Lois Lane / Saw725
27 Mewtwo / SenatorNyxen
28 Agatha Christie / damo666
29 Tim Berners-Lee / Hamish
30 Martina Navratilova / Szpoti
31 Robert Burns / damo666
32 Nicolae Ceausescu / Hamish
33 Audrey Hepburn / SenatorNyxen
34 Rosa Parks / Doug7878
35 Natalie Portman / SenatorNyxen
36 Weird Al Yankovic / VillageIdiot
37 Chiang Kai Shek / Ferdack
38 Leonard Bernstein / Tolstoy
39 Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca / dargorygel
40 Neville Chamberlain / Hamish
41 Jafar / Jamiet99uk
42 Robert The Bruce / damo666
43 George Sanders / SenatorNyxen
44 Robert Bork / Jamiet99uk
45 Sally Ride / Doom427
46 Cloud / SenatorNyxen
47 Ellen Ripley / Szpoti
48 Ferdinand Porsche / Hamish
49 Roald Amundsen / Szpoti
50 Walter White / Jamiet99uk
51 Ferdinand Foch / Dargorygel
52 Faramir / Ferdack
53 Victor Frankenstein / VillageIdiot
54 Walt Disney / Doug7878
55 Zapp Brannigan / Sploack
56 Rich Sanchez / Doom427
57 Jeanne d'Arc / Hamish
58 Alan Turing / Doom427
59 Frank-N-Furter/JECE
60 The Waco Kid / damo666
61 Omar Khayyam / DougJoe
62 Robert Preston / VillageIdiot
63 Sue-Ellen Braverman / Szpoti
64 Gaia / damo666
65 Bette Davis / Jamiet99uk
66 Katy Perry / Szpoti
67 Nicolaus Copernicus / DougJoe
68 Ada Lovelace / Hamish
69 Sergey Bubka / Szpoti
70 Isabel la Católica / JECE
71 Blas de Lezo / VillageIdiot
72 Douglas Southall Freeman / Jamiet99uk
73 Ric Flair / VillageIdiot
74 The Grinch / Hamish
75 Kofi Annan / damo666
76 Gerry Adamas / JECE
77 Sancho Panza / Hamish
78 Steve Redgrave / damo666
79 Sergei Diaghilev / Village Idiot
80 Harry Houdini / DougJoe
81 Bill & Ted / Hamish
82 Eric Carle / Balki Bartokomous
83 Kirk Cameron / Saw725
84 Chester Bennington / Chaqa
85 Roland Deschain / Balki Bartokomous
86 Edward Scissorhands / DougJoe
87 Steve Wozniak / supi13
88 Falkor / Balki Bartokomous
89 Nicki Minaj / han-shahanshah
90 Uesegi Kenshin / damo666
91 Peter Ustinov / damo666 [not guessed]
92 Indira Gandhi / han-shahanshah
93 Jiang Qing / Jamiet99uk
94 Judge Dredd / Octavious
95 (special):
Robert the Bruce / Jamiet99uk [lost]
Doctor Who / han-shahanshah
Secretariat / han-shahanshah
Henrietta Lacks / Kakarroto [lost]
96 Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov / JECE
97 Dead parrot / JECE [not guessed]
98 Ian Smith / Damo
99 Joseph-Ignace Guillotin / Foxcastle

Ten Commandments

Ⅰ Only binary questions may be asked.

Ⅱ If a binary question does not have a yes-or-no answer, the question master must not count the question.

Ⅲ All other binary questions will be answered and count towards a twenty-question limit, regardless of whether they were designated as 'conditional'.

Ⅳ One guess per person does not count against the total twenty questions, but additional guesses by the same person do.

Ⅴ After all twenty questions are used up, there are no more free guesses, and five total guesses are allowed.

Ⅵ No player shall ask more than two consecutive questions or make more than two consecutive guesses (or a consecutive combination thereof) before another player has asked a question or made a guess.

Ⅶ Before the twentieth question is asked, players who have not yet used their free guess may choose to expend their free guess alongside two consecutive questions.

Ⅷ The question master may should choose entities real or fictional that are not horribly obscure, so long as they are not repeats.

Ⅸ Whoever guesses correctly takes over from the previous question master; if they do not want to do it, they may choose who to pass the duty onto or just give it to the first volunteer.

Ⅹ If the question master remains undefeated three times in a row, on the third time they must either pass it to a person of their choice, or the first volunteer takes over.

Ten Commandments

[damo666]

Are at least 2 of these true?

Real
Dead
Male

[Foxcastle]

Are at least 2 of these true?

Real
Dead
Male

Yes

[han-shahanshah]

Congratulations Foxcastle!

Real?

[damo666]

Are at least 2 of these true?

Real
Dead
Male

Yes

Are all 3 true?

[han-shahanshah]

Congratulations Foxcastle!

Real?

Disregard this and answer damo's.

[Foxcastle]

Are at least 2 of these true?

Real
Dead
Male

Yes

Are all 3 true?

No

[Jamiet99uk]

So this is either:

1. A real dead woman.
2. A real living man.
3. A fictional man who has died in the paradigm in which he existed.

[damo666]

So this is either:

1. A real dead woman.
2. A real living man.
3. A fictional man who has died in the paradigm in which he existed.

No. Could be an animal, gendered alien

[Jamiet99uk]

So this is either:

1. A real dead female thing.
2. A real living male thing.
3. A fictional male thing who has died in the paradigm in which thet existed.

No. Could be an animal, gendered alien

Ok corrected.

[dargorygel]

Are at least 2 of these true?

Real
Dead
Male

This is an interesting puzzle way to ask questions. I am impressed, damocles.

[Foxcastle]

Are at least 2 of these true?

Real
Dead
Male

This is an interesting puzzle way to ask questions. I am impressed, damocles.

It's a very neat approach. I applaud Damo for coming up with it, and I will be very curious to see whether people think it should be the standard opening question from here on out.

[Jamiet99uk]

Are at least 2 of these true?

Real
Dead
Male

This is an interesting puzzle way to ask questions. I am impressed, damocles.

It's a very neat approach. I applaud Damo for coming up with it, and I will be very curious to see whether people think it should be the standard opening question from here on out.

The only problem is, after the first two questions, we know nothing.

[damo666]

Suggest ask

Alive?

If yes we know 2 is true,

If no then ask Real?

If yes 1, if no 3

[Foxcastle]

This is an interesting puzzle way to ask questions. I am impressed, damocles.

It's a very neat approach. I applaud Damo for coming up with it, and I will be very curious to see whether people think it should be the standard opening question from here on out.

The only problem is, after the first two questions, we know nothing.

Yeah, the failure mode might be that playing a logic game on top of 20 questions, where you aren't supposed to ask more than 2 in a row, doesn't quite work if no one else buys into your logic game.

[Jamiet99uk]

I'll go:

Is this a living human?

[Foxcastle]

I'll go:

Is this a living human?

No.

The logic game has become somewhat tedious, so I am going to short circuit it so that the game can move forward more normally: if you ask about either real or male, you will be able to close the loop and will know all three attributes.

[JECE]

It probably made sense to ask 'real' anyway.

So here goes: real?

[Foxcastle]

It probably made sense to ask 'real' anyway.

So here goes: real?

Yes.

Through questions 1 and 2, you know that exactly 2 of real/dead/male are true. Through questions 3 and 4, you know that dead (not alive) and real are both true. Therefore, you know that male is not true.

To simplify:

1. [Logic game]
2. [Logic game]
3. [Logic game]
4. Real, dead, not male

[JECE]

Royalty?