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--- 20_questions [2025/06/16 14:10] – frchris
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-====== 20 Questions ======
+====== 20 Questions Game ======
-This is the classic game you can play in the car on a road trip.  It usually starts with One person thinking of something that is either an animal, or a mineral, or a vegetable.  The player gets 20 chances to ask a yes or no question.  Here is a video of [[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4LWlUeJCASM|how people play this game]] and another video that talks about this game as a [[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xPu2gg5xMW4|1980's version of AI]]
+This is the classic game you can play in the car on a road trip.  It usually starts with One person thinking of something that is either an animal, or a mineral, or a vegetable.  The player gets 20 chances to ask a yes or no question.  Here is a video of [[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4LWlUeJCASM|how people play this game]] and another video that talks about how this this game demonstrates the state of [[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xPu2gg5xMW4|AI in the 1980's]]
+In this lab we will write the code that will ask you to think of a thing, and then it has 20 "Yes or No" questions.  If you win (and you accurately answered the questions), you will be asked to invent a good question to distinguish between the computer's guess and your answer.  This information will be written in a text file, so next time it plays, it would be able to guess your thing.