Twenty Questions

The game Who am I? (also called list in front of head and board in front of head) is a guessing game in which the players a certain person (or animal, object, etc.) embody and out through clever, deductive questions looking for, who or what they represent. It is played often at parties or other social gatherings such as children's birthday parties, etc.

Preparation

What is needed pens, paper and tape. The number of participants, although not really limited, you should for the sake of the game fun more than 8 - 10, otherwise suffers the communication. Each player writes a note with a known name (eg " Helmut Kohl " Winnetou or " Bruce Willis " ) and mounted it on the forehead of a fellow player (bonding, attachment using a headband, etc.) without that learns the information. Now have all attach such only visible to the players information itself, the game begins.

Course

A player will now begin to ask the other questions about themselves that can be answered with yes or no. The game often includes questions such as: " Am I female / male ", " Am I sportsmen / Presenter / Actor / Singer / ua ", " Am I living for? " And " I live in Germany / U.S. / among other things? ". The goal is to as quickly as possible to guess the identity of deductive questions. If a question is answered in the negative, the next player to put in a clockwise direction to the series of questions to find out who he is.

The game ends either achieved when all guessed who they are, or if the group is too large, the first and the first three have to guess who they are. There are several variants of this game, the group should agree beforehand on a variant.

Commercial Recycling

Some games authors embedded the game idea in commercial games. So the author Robert Abbott invented the game Egghead (English: What's That On My Head ), which then came out again in 1986 under the name Code 777 in Germany. Here a combination of numbers was to guess. In addition, a free browser game called Akinator was released, based on the game; you have to but the person think that must then guess the Akinator based on an algorithm using questions.