Guess what? Nope, guess again. That’s right, you got it! The Funhouse brings you four totally different guessing games. Some involve words, some involve pictures, some played with others and some played alone. These games are sure to keep you guessing.
Everyone has played 20 Questions. So this cute online game demo should appeal to everyone. It certainly has a lot of appeal. Too bad the application only lets you play one side of the game. You must come up with a word and the computer will ask you 20 Questions and try to guess your word.
Start by classifying your word as animal, vegetable, mineral, other, or unknown. After the game asks each question, players have the option of answering yes, no, probably, sometimes, and unknown. Having these extra options helps a little, since not every word can fit neatly into yes or no answers.
The computer does a pretty good job of guessing the correct word as long as it’s fairly common. I didn’t find it too difficult to stump the game on a few occasions and when the little rugrat gets the answer wrong, it gracefully admits defeat. It will continue to ask questions beyond the original 20 until it gets it right or gives up, but if you stump it by 20, you win.
The game actually serves as an introduction to various handheld versions of the game available for purchase on the same site, but the free demo plays pretty well.
- 20Q Pocket Game Demo
- Guessing Game
- Simple to learn
- Click and answer gameplay
- Truthfulness involved
- Excellent replay value
- Age Old Concept redone well
- Nice Pop Art graphics
- computery Sound effects
- Querying amounts of Fun
- Score 8
- Today’s Rank 3rd Place
Discordi - What Would Other People Say?
I discovered Discordi several years ago when I still used Windows. Now I’m a Big Mac Paddywhack guy, so I no longer have access to this Windows-only game. Therefore, my review comes forth from the deep well-spring of my mind. Years later, this multi-player game still has a freshness to it. Just to make it clear, this is Windows Only and you must download the game to play.
Discordi brings together random gamers (at least 5 people must play at once, but the game accommodates many more). Players start as tiny people at the bottom of a large pyramid of steps, which looks like an extremely difficult Towers of Hanoi game. The game poses a series of questions to all players. The questions don’t involve facts, knowledge or trivia, but rather personal preferences, such as “Would you Live on a Lunar Base?” or fill in the blank questions, like “Mortal _____”. Players must choose the answer that they think the majority of the group will answer. The answers are tallied and the more popular your answer, the more steps you will climb.
Along the way to the top, players will have to face many obstacles. Several specialty steps cause various events to happen. You can get stuck on a step in goop or get shocked or lose IQ points, etc. Additionally, a series of random ’storm events’ randomly occur, including Ice Storms, Meteor Showers and Solar Winds. These events cause havoc to the players who get hit by them. Since players get hit more or less randomly, an optionto purchase insurance along the way can help protect players against these events. The player who makes it to the top of the tower wins.
I really enjoyed playing this game and I hope the designers port it to Mac or an online Flash version sometime.
- Discordi
- Multi-Player Guessing Game
- A few rules to learn
- Tricky to master
- Answer questions gameplay
- Intuition, smarts, strategy involved
- Superb replay value
- Very Original Concept
- Towers of Hanoi graphics
- Climb your way to Fun
- Score 10
- Today’s Rank 2nd Place
Fake Out - Big Words for Little People
Fake Out comes to us from Education Place, a site for kids and teens to learn. So the game aims itself for Kindergarten through 8th Grade Kids. However, I found the game challenging and fun for adults as well.
In this simple concept, a new list of challenging words appears each week (divided into grade level). Choose a word and you will get a list of about 8-10 definitions for that word. Only one definition is correct and you simply choose the one you think is the correct definition.
Similar to party games like Dictionary (or the hilarious board game version Balderdash), Fake Out allows players to submit definitions for upcoming lists of words. After players choose an answer, the game displays the number of people who chose each of the answers listed. So you can submit your own answer and see how many people you fool next week.
I suppose since this game is really aimed at the educational demographic, it’s a bit unfair to throw it in with the other games today. Oh well, sue me.
- Fake Out
- Definition Guessing Game
- Easy to learn
- Multiple Choice Selection gameplay
- Smarts involved
- Good replay value
- Standard Concept
- minimal graphics
- no Audio
- Verbose Fun
- Score 6
- Today’s Rank 4th Place
From the brilliant mind of Grant Robinson comes one of the most refreshing games I’ve seen. Based on a simple mash-up concept. Guess-the-Google chooses a random word and culls together 20 images from a Google Image search of that word. Your task is to guess the correct word in 20 seconds or less by looking at the various images. You get more points for speedy answers. A list of all your incorrect guesses forms to the side of the play field for easy reference.
The game puts you through a series of 10 questions. If you don’t get the correct answer, the game will give you the first letter as a hint, but won’t reveal the real answer. I’ve played the game numerous times and haven’t yet encountered a duplicate word, although I’m sure the word list has a limit eventually.
- Guess-the-Google
- Word/Image Guessing Game
- Easy to learn
- Pretty Easy to master
- Find the Right Word and Type gameplay
- Smarts, Observation, Spelling involved
- Tons of replay value
- Original Concept
- Web 2.0 + Image Gallery graphics
- No Audio
- Enormous Fun
- Score 10
- Today’s Rank Best Game
Tags: Quiz/Test, Word, Typing, Game Review, Game, game, games, Guessing
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