TehDonutKing wrote:It took him 2 tries to guess “Kerberos”* and to guess that I was talking about my chinchilla. Has anyone else beaten him?
(Although, to be fair, I answered “partially” when he asked if he was from a cartoon, an anime and a video game)
Several times a long time ago, the thing about what this program does is when it doesn't get it right, it asks you for the answer. The nature of the test gives it exactly what needs to be cataloged in its database. The idea is that over-time it'll know more and more as long as it isn't obscure enough that one person who managed to find something it doesn't know will tell it the answer.
There was a time when I could regularly stump it with characters from obscure anime that's been around for a while, or even popular 9-dan pro ranked Go players in the last 20 years. You can do the same with mass media that's just recently been released that hasn't made its way into the Akinator database.
Of course, if you want to beat it on purpose, you can always choose something that nobody but yourself would know and would ask unsuccessfully, then reveal the answer to Akinator so that it gets cataloged.
The real way to beat Akinator is to choose things that don't slot into the 130 or so questions that it asks. Namely, ones that almost always fall under the "I don't know"/"Probably" areas, even being completely honest about your answers. Something like "Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex", who wrote the worse poetry in the universe. I just beat akinator with that, and I told it who I was talking about. I did it 4 more times, still unsuccessfully guessing, each time I clicked on the "Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings" checkbox so that it can narrow down its catalog.