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Akinator - TV Tropes

  • ️Sat Jun 22 2024

Half of the point of the site is to defy this trope by trying to find a character that isn't in the database. It Only Works Once for each character, as if you do succeed, you are expected to add your character. This has led to some extremely unusual characters, and non-standard results if you keep giving nonsense answers.

  • "Someone who kept clicking on No to see what happens"
  • "A smart guy who presses 'Yes' (that would be you)."
  • Likewise, saying Probably/Partially to everything will get you "Probably Someone"
  • Don't Know leads to "The One About Whom Nothing Is Known"
  • Probably Not/Not Really will lead to "Someone who Doubts their Own Doubt"
  • He can even guess what he calls "Something I Can't Talk About" — whose accompanying picture is a man staring, fascinated, down his boxer shorts.
  • "I wasn't actually thinking of anyone."
  • Giving a lot of very strange, sometimes contradictory answers results in "A player that probably needs brand new glasses (You)".
  • "Your Own Character" is also a possibility, as are "Yourself", "Your mum", "Your father", "your martial arts instructor" and "your horse".
  • "Television", "keyboard" and some variations on "computer" and "laptop" are also possible guesses, as are a lot of other inanimate objects such as "Light bulb", "Windows operating system", "iPad", "Wi-Fi", "Xbox-360", "Xbox-360 controller", "gamecube", "Printer", "magnets", and "The Internet".
  • Worse yet, Akinator himself is included, to the point where he'll ask "Do you think I'm too stupid to guess who it is?"
  • If you were thinking of his mother, a picture of a model in a genie suit appears.
  • If you are listed as young and the answer generated is a wild guess he gives you "I know the answer, but I don't think it's for children."
  • If you try to get it to guess something that's not a character, he will sometimes say something along the lines of "Something I don't know because it's not a character".
  • Not only is Akinator included, but so is everything in his room, including the gold decorations on the pedestal, Akinator's mustache, and the sphinx-like statue nearby.
  • "Your imaginary friend" can be suggested for certain apparently random combinations of attributes.
  • The developers are included as "The ones who created this site". They also show up as "Akinator's creator" with a picture of a chimpanzee, the description says "How did you get his photo?"