I made this game with a friend. We’re interested in your feedback!

  • @theparadox
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    238 months ago

    Is it an oven? 👍 Is it a microwave oven? 👍 Is it a countertop microwave oven? 👍 Can it grill food? 👍 Is it a grill microwave oven? - exceeded the question limit, big reveal, answer was “microwave”. Interesting but I wasted a lot of questions trying to determine what kind of microwave it was because “microwave oven” was not accepted.

    • @[email protected]
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      218 months ago

      Even saying “oven” as correct threw me off. Ive never called a microwave an oven or a microwave oven. I was like starting to think maybe it wanted a specific brand of oven, or a synonym like stove

      • @[email protected]
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        58 months ago

        Well actually…

        An oven is something you put food in to cook by heating the air inside of it.

        A range is the burner portion.

        A stove is a combination of the two.

        Yes this is pedantic and I agree that they’re often used interchangeably

      • @theparadox
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        18 months ago

        I had already narrowed the size down to a smallish (I forgot what I used for comparison) electronic cooking appliance so a full oven was already out. “Toaster oven” was negative, so I tried microwave oven route instead.

    • Joelk111
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      8 months ago

      I asked if it was larger than a microwave on my second question and it gave it to me…

      Edit: There was an update to make it more lenient. Too lenient imo.

    • @[email protected]
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      8 months ago

      That’s weird, it accepted “microwave oven” from me just now. My last two questions were:

      Is it some kind of oven? 👍

      Is it a microwave oven? Yep you got it!

      Edit: looks like they implemented a fix for this

  • @[email protected]
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    188 months ago

    I thought I was done when I guessed oven, but there was no clear feedback saying I won. Went to the comments for the actual answer.

    So my feedback: fun game! If possible, perhaps add something like “very close” if you guess something that’s almost the answer but not quite. Or oven could have just been wrong, since that wasn’t the actual answer.

  • @hasnt_seen_goonies
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    148 months ago

    I thought it was broken, because I asked if it was an oven, and it said yes… And then nothing. Just a bit confusing to people who don’t understand AI and fuzzy answers.

    • @[email protected]
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      18 months ago

      Wdym? You’re asking Yes or No questions, the word wasn’t oven, but the word WAS an oven, it was microwave. I think there was just a misunderstanding

  • @[email protected]
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    8 months ago

    Lmao I got the answer 11 questions in, but because I called it a “microwave oven” instead of just a microwave, it didn’t count as correct until I asked “is it a microwave?” for my last question

    • @erinerOP
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      138 months ago

      We’ve implemented a fix to make it more lenient. Sometimes the synonyms and spellings catch us off guard (“raccoon” vs “racoon”), but we should have known about this one! Sorry about that.

      +CC @[email protected]

      • @[email protected]
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        68 months ago

        I had fun anyway, and ain’t playing competitively. Long as I know I got it right, I’m happy!

  • @[email protected]
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    108 months ago

    I’m hesitant to say that the current word is a bad choice, but it feels far too specific to me. I’m curious what questions one could ask after finding out that it’s a type of f___ that would lead to the exact type of f___ that it is.

    Again, I’m hesitant to criticize the decision, because it’s entirely possible that I’m just dumb and gave up too soon

    • @erinerOP
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      8 months ago

      I’d rate this one “black diamond” level for sure.

      My Questions

      is it alive? 👍

      is it an animal? 👍

      is it a land animal? 👎

      is it a salt water fish? 👍

      is it a tropical fish? 👍

      is it commonly consumed in America? 👎

      is it a common fish in home aquariums? 👎

      is it a common fish in public aquariums? 👍

      does it have a distinct color? 🤷‍♂️

      is it larger than a bread box? 👎

      is it a keystone species? 🤷‍♂️

      is it a character in the movie Finding Nemo? 👍

      Is it larger than one foot in length? 👎

      does it have unique characteristics that differentiate it from other fish? 👍

      is it a clown fish? 👎

      is it an angler fish? 👎

      is it a deep sea fish? 👎

      is it a seahorse? ⭐

    • @[email protected]
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      68 months ago

      Agreed. I narrowed it down to a small species of ocean fish that was featured in Finding Nemo, but couldn’t figure out how to pin down a specific species.

    • Pika
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      48 months ago

      I feel the same way to be honest, with the current question I did it all the way through and I was at odds end of what I could ask it aside from just straight out asking if it’s a specific type, third question in was the exact one that you spoilered out and yet I wasn’t even able to get a general ballpark of what it was in the next 17 questions.

    • @hasnt_seen_goonies
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      48 months ago

      I agree, but I definitely had microwaves in my classrooms (small school, we would eat in classrooms).

  • @[email protected]
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    88 months ago

    I came as far as asking: is it an oven 👍 Then: is it a stove 👎 Then wtf is it???

    I never in my life have considered a microwave to be an oven, but obviously it is. I’ve never had one, so I have limited experience with it.

    • @d00ery
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      38 months ago

      Microwaves also don’t contain motors 😂

    • @alxjsn
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      28 months ago

      By any chance did you ask “is it a metal?” Microwaves contain/are made of metal but aren’t a metal.

        • @erinerOP
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          18 months ago

          Thanks for your feedback! We’ve implemented a change to improve the outcome of this kind of question in the future.

  • @secondaccountlemmy
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    78 months ago

    i made the mistake of checking the comments before playing so…

    • @drislands
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      28 months ago

      Yeah I don’t think anyone realized that everyone got the same word. Can’t blame em for babbling about it, but it’s a major bummer because now I’m obviously not going to play.

  • @SnowmenMelt
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    78 months ago

    I got a no for can you hold it so I was sure it was a normal oven. You can definitely hold a microwave they’re not that big 🤣

  • BudgieMania
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    78 months ago

    Oooh this is a cool concept, thanks for sharing! I’ll add it to my rotation of stuff to play on my conmute.

    I threw some weird questions here and there to see if it had issues, it didn’t know how to answer either of these:

    -Does its name start with a vowel?
    -Does its name have less than ten letters?

    Although that might have been due to my clumsy wording.

    • @erinerOP
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      88 months ago

      LLMs tend to perform poorly with questions about linguistic characteristics of words. We have tuned responses to gently discourage questions like that. We also feel that they’re kind of “cheating” at this sort of game. :)

      Glad you enjoy it!

      • @glimse
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        48 months ago

        I asked the same question (does it start with a vowel) and agree that it shouldn’t answer even if it could but I have a suggestion: use a different emoji than the “I don’t know” one to mean “that’s kinda cheating”

      • BudgieMania
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        18 months ago

        We also feel that they’re kind of “cheating” at this sort of game.

        Hehehehehehe that is true, I’ll play fair instead of trying to see what it lets me get away with. Well, most days at least.

        Haven’t tried using llm for this kind of stuff so it’s very interesting to see where its limits lie

    • @Buffaloaf
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      48 months ago

      There’s a cool one called chronogram that has an AI pretending to be an historical figure. You basically have a conversation to figure out who they are. It’s pretty cool, but now it requires you to sign up or use a Google account, which is a bummer

      • BudgieMania
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        28 months ago

        but now it requires you to sign up or use a Google account, which is a bummer

        Aaagh I saw, what a shame. Sounds like a cool concept, but I can’t be arsed to sign up with my Google or Discord accounts for a daily thing even if it gave a free budgie

  • @Sorgan71
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    68 months ago

    This is interesting. I’d like to see more words.