The magic mind-reader :) (20Q Game)

Member Name: truth24

Product:	20Q Game
Date:	01/01/08 (39 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Entertaining, clever, funny, and very smart!

Disadvantages: Probably would get boring if you played all day!

I was so impressed when I came across 20Q. As it was cheap.. £2.30, I think.. I didn't expect it to be any good at guessing a word. Before I bought it, I tested it. I thought of a word, an easy word, at first, to test see how clever it was.

So, it asked me 20 questions about the word I was thinking. To each you can answer "yes", "no", "sometimes" and "unknown". So, I did this, and in the end it was right. I was quite surprised. So I tried again. Again, it was right.

This little round, purple (well, mine's purple) device is smarter than it looks! It can guess really intricate things e.g. Black labrador (!) or something really random. It can even guess non-material things, which was what really shocked me, like, e.g. love or happiness (not sure if it guessed those exact words, but stuff like that) or unexpected things. Basically, 20Q is very intelligent!

It is quite amusing, and I can play on it for quite a while before I get bored. I have won occasionally. If you want a tip for winning, just baffle it by thinking of a type of fruit e.g. an orange. For some reason it guesses strawberry, but not orange! Stuff like that gets it confused but everything else it is great at.

It is quite funny the way it "talks" to you by saying stuff like "you'll never beat me", "I'm smart" "I think I know what your word is" etc.

If it doesn't guess your word in 20 questions it asks 5 more.

I recommend this little device, especially because of its relatively low price.

Summary: A great buy, a good little thing to have around when you're bored.