20 Questions
A guessing game of twenty questions
Think of a noun. Keep it secret.
Choose a person, place, animal, food, or object. The computer will ask up to 20 yes-or-no-style questions and try to guess it.
Press Hot when the current line of questioning feels close. Press Cold when it is heading in the wrong direction.
Choose your role
The Thinker secretly chooses a noun. The Guesser asks up to 20 questions. The noun is never typed or transmitted.
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Create the connection
Create an offer code, send it to the Guesser, and paste the answer code they send back.
Your offer code
Paste the Guesser's answer code
Join the connection
Paste the Thinker's offer code
Your answer code
Ask your question
A guess uses one of the 20 turns.