Since each candidate that has yet to be ruled out is equally likely, we can consider any two questions equivalent if the smaller of the groups they each identify contain the same number of candidates. Your person called Anita, Anne, Claire, Maria or Susan?” will all rule out theĪny question will split the remaining candidates into two groups. There is an unlimited amount of questions that could be asked butĮxample, the answer to “Is your person male?”, “Is your person female?” and “is In this blog we will consider what constitutes a good question and whether Rober really does have an optimal strategy. I recently saw a video by Mark Rober online claiming to have a best Guess Who? strategy and so being a mathematician I wanted to check the numbers. Their opposition’s character in the same amount of moves it’s a draw. In the least amount of moves is the winner. The player who eliminates all but one of the possible candidates
The players then take turns to ask yes/no questions to guess the other person’s character. Each player is allocated one of 24 possible characters from the table of names below. This two player game was originally created by Theora Design but is now owned by Hasbro.
As I was growing up, one of my favourite games was Guess Who?.
