Beat the Machine

An addictive online game: "Guess the Dictator and/or Television Sit-Com Character." The fun part: You get to be the dictator or TV character. It's the computer that does the guessing.

I stumped it by being Klinger from M*A*S*H, but only because I decided that Klinger would claim to be a woman. Of course, now that I've tried that trick on it once, it's not likely to work again…

[Via The Agitator.]

Comments

[Michael Gushulak]

It asked me over forty questions before it ventured to guess that I must have been Detective Munch from Homicide Life On The Street. Actually, I was Detective Mick Belker from Hill Street Blues.

[Anonymous]

Interestingly, neither Homicide nor Hill Street Blues is a sitcom.

[Andrew]

It was able to get Dante from Clerks: the Animated Series, even though only 2 of the 6 episodes ever aired... Nice.

[Michael Gushulak]

Oh, duh, smack me in the head, we're dealing with sitcoms only. This time I was Les Nessman of WKRP in Cincinnati. The thing asked me forty questions before it decided I must be Jeff Probst of Survivor.

[Robert Hutchinson]

Was: Get Smart's Larabee.

Guessed I was: George W. Bush.

Nooo comment.

[Tuning_Spork]

That 'puter must have asked me 60 questions before guessing I some "Ramba Lumba from Outland something something......" HA! I WAS RICHARD NIXON!!!!!!!!!

[Madog]

Wow, that program's good. It even got Philip II of Macedonia.

[Pedro]

That is one kick-ass game!

[Steve Skutnik]

Even got Momar Kaddafi... it's good.

[RK]

I thought I had a good one--LeBeau from Hogan's Heroes. It figured me out.

[Madog]

Don't forget that Bush is a sitcom character too. Comedy Central ran a series called "That's my Bush" that was a pretty funny spoof on both the President and sitcoms.