Akinator, the web genius

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Akinator, the web genius - Time Waster

by Jay Hathaway Dec 1st 2008

There's something of a minor craze about this thing called Akinator lately. It's been popping up on Delicious and it's all over my RSS feeds. But what the heck is it? Akinator is a guessing game. You think of a famous person, and it asks you questions and makes a guess about who you're thinking of.

There are plusses and minuses to Akinator's popularity. On the plus side, all the data it has collected makes it surprisingly good at guessing some pretty obscure celebrities. Akinator has successfully guessed everyone from Britney Spears to 80's prog-rocker John Petrucci to various literary characters and ... Pokémon? It's that good. The downside to Akinator's high traffic is that it's sometimes excruciatingly slow. To remedy this, Akinator currently only allows 1500 players at once, and it's almost always full.

Tags: Akinator, game, guessing

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

rpheckenkamp said 1:27PM on 12-01-2008

His speech bubble is blank. With Firefox and IE

Butters said 5:16PM on 12-01-2008

The site works fine here.

You might have to make sure your software is up to date. If it is not that then make sure the page has finished loading, as Jay said it is sometimes very slow and the words will no appear in the speech bubble until the whole page loads. Be patience and you should be good.

Dr. Chuck said 7:07PM on 12-01-2008

20Q works the same way.

http://www.20q.net/

Mackenzie said 12:37AM on 12-02-2008

Blank here too. Firefox says "done." Firebug says it has a Javascript error.

Tiagogmc said 11:43PM on 12-02-2008

I can't get it to work on iPhone... is there any way to do it?

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