Animal Guessing Game

Author: Lei Mao

Date: 1/22/2018

Introduction

Animal Guessing Game is a word-based guessing game. Player first think of an animal in the mind. The bot will ask a couple of questions with binary yes/no answers. The player answer the questions with yes/no. If the bot guesses the animal correctly, the bot wins. Otherwise, the player wins. At the cost of winning, the player has to provide a useful question regarding the animal in the mind. There is a such Animal Game online which you can play with.

Demo

Please think of an animial in your mind.
Does it fly?
Please input "yes" or "no".
yes
Is it dove?
no
Now I give up.
What is it?
bee
I see. How do I tell it apart from dove?
Please give a question with a yes or no answer.
Is it an insect?
OK. bee. Is it an insect?
yes
Thank you. I have learned a lot about bee.

Usage

The executable file "animal" has been compiled on Ubuntu 16.04 using g++ 5.4.0. Ubuntu users should be able to use the program directly.

./animal

To compile the from the source code, simply run:

make

Notes

• There is nothing special about this game. The bot basically uses the information that the player provided to construct binary trees.
• There are some other C++ versions of this game on GitHub. However, their game is not able to saved the latest information before closing the program. My Animal Guessing Game saves the animal information in a certain data structure into the file. The game will load the accumulated animal information from the file before the game.
• You are welcome to contribute the data for this game!