20Q
Nigel,
I was looking through your site, MIS Web Design, where I stumbled on 20Q. It's excellent, but quite addictive. Definitely a worthy entry for the coffee break section here
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Accessify Forum Administrator ~ Nigel Peck / MIS Web Design
"Everything I say is not meant to be set in stone" - Van Morrison
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Too cool ... I can't believe it actually guessed I was thinking about dark matter!
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I won, though it eventually found it out. Not too bad, 23 questions.
I was thinking of a wheelchair.
The computer disagreed with me, saying that you don't play games in wheelchairs. I guess the programers have never heard of wheelchair basketball, tennis, rugby, etc...
Nic
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I think it learns as it goes along. If more people said you play games in wheelchairs, it would agree with your answer. Every now and again it goes horribly wrong. I tried it thinking of a plum, and the first thing it suggested was a house? It could be that someone's been feeding it a load of information that isn't correct to try and fool it. It got plum on the second guess, but didn't agree it got smaller the more you used it. I suppose the word "use" is a bit ambiguous, but I took "use" to mean that you're eating it, in which case it gets smaller. It's the best coffee-break time program I've seen in a long while.
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heh...i won. obviously not many smokers out there playing this 
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Well, I bet the program after 29 questions but it got close .};-) http://www.xhtmlcoder.com/
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It's certainly filled part of my otherwise dull day!
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