I'm smarter thana machine (20Q Game)

Member Name: Donf18

Product:	20Q Game
Date:	27/12/07 (139 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Great fun

Disadvantages: After time gets a bit tedious

The blue oval shaped object with a bright red screen did not seem an opponent that I should have any reason to fear, I was human intelligent ( well sort of )self aware with the capacity to think and reason. I would surely triumph against such a puny and somewhat lacking adversary. The seven little buttons on it's smooth shiny surface were no match for such as I, I would undoubtedly be the victor after all he could not possibly know my thoughts, and a mere 20 questions were not going to let a plastic ball shape with some clever electronics get inside my head.

I thought long and hard for an object or thing that would have the device puffing smoke from it's circuit board and blowing some small electrical component to the great circuit board in the sky. I tried what I considered to be easy one's for this game to guess and true to it's claims it guessed correctly every time, the objects were obviously too easy so I upped my game and tried to outwit the circuitry, to no avail it won again. Every time I seemed to up my challenge it responded with the same cunning questions and ingenuity as a cunning fox which had just had a cunning supper followed by some cunning tea. Just when I thought victory was in sight up[ would pop a question that showed he was on the right trail.

This little device gives hours of pleasure to any who are prepared to sit and answer it's multitude of questions, well 20 actually. The object of the game for those unfamiliar is to choose an object or thing in your head and then answer the questions the device throws at you. The options for answering are on the four main buttons on the front of the unit. These are YES..... NO...... UNKNOWN.......and SOMETIMES. There is a tinier undo button under the four major buttons just in case you make a mistake. YOU MUST answer the questions truthfully or else you are cheating., how can it possibly guess the answer if you answer incorrectly.

In playing you may at times think the questions a bit strange but as you get nearer to the end of the 20 questions you will be asked this will become apparent as you can clearly see the device is getting close, at this point there is a slight inclination towards cheating, but what would be the point. If after all the questions 20Q cannot guess the correct answer he will ask another 5 in the hope they will draw him to the correct conclusion. If he fails you win.

This neat little game will set you back around a tenner, but it will keep you occupied for hours trying to beat it. It is beatable and it does not always get the exact answer, so there are times when you might have to concede that it is in fact in the general vicinity of the correct answer. The screen is quite small and there is the facility to turn off the backlight to the display, although it is better played with it on. The bright red screen means the small writing is clearly visible even if at times the questions do seem to rush past a bit quickly.

All in all this is a very good little game which seems simple but does require a bit of thought if you intend to be victorious more than you are a failure. The only downside is thatafter a while it does have a tendancy to get a little tedious.

Summary: A great little electrical device.