On Friday 14 January 2005 09:23 am, Ruby Quiz wrote:
> It works like this.  The program starts by telling the user to think
> of an animal.  It then begins asking a series of yes/no questions
> about that animal: does it swim, does it have hair, etc.  Eventually,
> it will narrow down the possibilities to a single animal and guess
> that (Is it a mouse?).

For a very impressive version of this game, see http://20q.com.

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