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[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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] 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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] 5 points 9 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

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (4 children)

It said that it wasn't bigger than a housecat. That threw me off.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You know, I had the same thought of asking if it was bigger than something, and this happened:

⭐ Quizzle 18 1/20

🟩

https://quizzle.game

I was actually a little disappointed I didn't get to play more!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Mine said it was bigger than a cat

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Clearly you meant a cat as big as a house.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

Y'all gotta put spoiler tags on your shit

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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] 6 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'd rate this one "black diamond" level for sure.

My Questionsis 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] 6 points 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

20 hours until I can play again?! C'mon...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I like the concept but some of the answers can be really misleading.

Can be carried, is found in classrooms, not made of plastic, and inexpensive. None of that points towards a microwave for me. Microwaves CAN be carried I guess, but who has microwaves in classrooms? My microwave has plastic cowling on the front, and microwaves are like 70-100 bucks the last time I checked. Some of that is on me for the phrasing (does it contain plastic I guess should have been used, as an example) but it's a bit odd.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Apparently microwaves aren't made of metal >:(

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 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"

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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 🤣

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Does its prevalence cause existential dread due to consumerism in the western hemisphere? 👎 Does it make chicken rubbery? 👍

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I got it in 19, but only because I asked if it was smaller than a house cat and I thought raccoons were larger.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I asked "is it famous?" 👍

I asked "is it in North America?" 👎

It was an oven lol.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Actually the lastest one isn't an oven as the final answer. My wife asked that and was like, "so why isn't it over??"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This was my exact experience and I couldn't figure out how to make it end. Was I supposed to guess which brand? Or was it something picky like a microwave oven?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Can I wear it? 👎 Is it a microwave? 👍

This is too easy

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nice. I got 17 and I would debate the size of that versus a bread box. Still got pretty much everything else right

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

It’s a really cool concept! Not much to improve regarding the UI. One small thing is, I found the thumbs up or down a bit less intuitive than seeing the answer spelled out

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It said yes when I asked if the answer was a carnivore, but the answer was an omnivore.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

It might be because they are part of the Order 'carnivora', so in that sense they are carnivores even though they are omnivorous.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The AI seemed to struggle with scientific names for #19.

The question

spoiler"Is it in the Actinopterygii class?"
was answered as no, though the correct answer should have been yes.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Those don't live in Europe or Africa? Huh.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I had no idea a ______ could be considered food…..

What.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I asked if it was edible and got a no.

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