20 Questions - round 2
 

The goal is to guess what the OP is thinking of, within 20 questions (as a group).

The current rule set:[LIST=1][*]The original poster will state the general type (for the item thought of): animal, vegetable, mineral, mixed (to be used only when the object is quite mixed), other. [*]Yes or No are the main answers. The OP will try to stick with those without explanation.[*]Questions will be taken in turn. i.e. The second question may not be asked until the first is answered.[*]If the answer is "yes", the asker of that question gets to ask the next question, they may not ask it before the previous qustion has been answered. If the answer is "no", someone else get to ask the next question and the asker that got the "no" answer must wait 24 hours before they can ask another question.[*]The asker must mark their post with the question number.[*]There maybe a 21st question of "Is it....", provided that the 20th question was answered "yes".[*]If it is successfully guessed, the one that got it gets to think up the next item.[*]Except 'point of order' posts, recaps, and clarifiactions: side discussions or discouraged.[/LIST]See [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_Questions[/url]

PM me with the item before posting. I will sit this one out as a guesser.

Animal
 

guess away...

[start narrowing down families etc.]

(1) Is it a vertebrate?

[QUOTE=Mini-Geek;234852](1) Is it a vertebrate?[/QUOTE]

yes continue

(2) Is it a mammal?

yes ... have you been speaking to uncwilly ? lol

This problem is now solved. :smile:

Algorithm is [URL="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Undef&id=7742&lvl=5&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock"]here[/URL]. Just traverse with questions.

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Now, Drilling into [URL="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Tree&id=40674&lvl=7&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock"]mammals[/URL], as the answer became posted.

[QUOTE=Batalov;234856]This problem is now solved. :smile:

Algorithm is [URL="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Undef&id=7742&lvl=5&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock"]here[/URL]. Just traverse with questions.[/QUOTE]

why would you suspect I suck at this unless you talked with uncwilly lol?

[QUOTE=science_man_88;234855]yes ... have you been speaking to uncwilly ? lol[/QUOTE]

No. :smile:
(3) Does it live primarily on land?

[QUOTE=Mini-Geek;234858]No. :smile:
(3) Does it live primarily on land?[/QUOTE]

yes you certainly know the correct questions lol.