doricredpanda/openakinator

free and open source akinator

OpenAkinator

Think about some character. This game will try to guess your character by asking yes/no questions. OpeanAkinator is good at finding right questions and learning from his mistakes.

Building

To build open-akinator run:

make

or

make open-akinator

Actually, there is a debug version with verbose output. You can use it to learn about akinator's calculations. To build run:

make debug

Usage

If you want to play with existing database, then enter files where data is stored. Example:

./open-akinator res/persons.txt res/questions.txt

or

./run.sh

If you want to create empty database, then just run program without arguments and answer the questions. Example:

./open-akinator

To answer a question, enter "y", "n", or "?" symbol. After the game OpenAkinator may ask you to teach him some new characters or questions.

Math:

• Bayes Rule
• Entropy

Have fun!