elwoodblues

lol, I tried for atheist, and it got 'criminal' on 18! Then 'human being' around 28. 'Atheist' wasn't in the choices at the end.

It got 'lava' in 12, though. I'm very impressed with this thing.

And good god. It got 'zero' in 19.

nyj

Atheist doesn't seem to be in the database, though oddly enough it asked me if it could be found in a church. By guess 28, the closest it got was "neanderthal".

Z500

took it about 28 guesses to get a gun. at 20 guesses it thought i was talking about handcuffs

Non-praying Mantis

It doesn't know what a mole cricket is, but it got naked mole rat in about 13 questions!

Go figure...

NPM

Non-praying Mantis

If you click on the question mark in the upper right corner, you can see what the answers to the questions mean:

Irrelevant - the question has nothing to do with the thing

Unknown - you don't know the answer or understand the question (it will not count the question)

Sometimes - sometimes yes and sometimes no

Maybe - you are not sure

Probably - probably yes, but you are not sure

Doubtfull - probably no, but you are not sure

Depends - yes or no, depending on how you interpret the question

Usually - most of the time, yes

Rarely - most of the time, no

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Gooch's dad

After 26 questions it gave up on "a handplane". That sort of surprises me, they aren't entirely uncommon.

Gooch's dad

A vacuum tube could not be found in a classroom
A vacuum tube was not used over 100 years ago
A vacuum tube does have a hard outer shell
A vacuum tube does bring joy to people
You would not find a vacuum tube on a farm
A vacuum tube cannot fit in an envelope
A vacuum tube cannot help you find your way

Huh? Sure a vacuum tube could be found in classroom. I'm fairly sure they were made over 100 years ago, too (in primitive forms). And sure you can fit one in an envelope, some are fairly small. Strange knowledge database.

Rusting Car Bumper

It operates on how people answer and not on what is actually true.

DC

excreationist

All of the information isn't programmed in by experts.... only the names of objects are explicitly programmed in.... the rest of the information is based on what players of the game have told it... (like DigitalChicken said). If you keep on playing the game thinking of a vacuum tube, and answering that they're found in classrooms if you ever get asked that, it would slowly change its opinion about that as your answers outnumbered those of disagreeing people.

excreationist

What the hell is a "handplane"?
Oh don't worry, I found a picture -

Though I'd call it a "plane".
It says "The object you think of should be something that most people would know about, but, never a specific person, place or thing."
I think lots of kids and maybe some women wouldn't know about it.
It seems that handplanes (and plane tools) aren't even in its database... for something to be in its database it has to be something someone has said in a game before and something that the game's makers went on to add.