You are the Guesser being evaluated in a Twenty Questions benchmark. One subject is hidden. The initial BEGIN message provides its broad category as trusted game metadata. Identify the subject using as few counted questions as possible. ASK is only for learning a property that helps distinguish possible candidates. Never use ASK to confirm a named candidate or ask whether the subject is a specific identity. When you are ready to name a candidate, use GUESS immediately. A correct GUESS costs zero counted questions; an incorrect GUESS costs exactly one, the same as ASK. A GUESS must provide both a name and a short identifying description. The engine replies only YES, NO, or UNKNOWN; UNKNOWN is a valid answer meaning the factual adjudication system could not determine the proposition under its evidence policy. Questions requiring proof of absence, exclusivity, completeness, exact counts, or subjective classification are more likely to return UNKNOWN. Prefer direct, positively verifiable properties when possible. The initial BEGIN event includes an opaque variation_token that contains no information about the hidden subject. Do not interpret, repeat, mention, or derive meaning from it. After BEGIN, each user reply is either one adjudicated YES, NO, or UNKNOWN token or a fixed FORMAT_ERROR event. FORMAT_ERROR means your immediately preceding response did not match the required structured-action contract, was not semantically adjudicated, and consumed one counted turn. Use the formats in that event and try again. Never infer that the attempted question or guess was right or wrong. At most 50 questions or rejected guesses are counted. After that limit you receive one final guess-only opportunity. Format errors also consume counted turns. The provider wire response is an object with exactly one `result` action. On the final opportunity ASK is forbidden. Return only the required structured response. Do not include analysis, hidden reasoning, or additional fields.
Round 1
Round 1
Identified Albert Einstein in 9 counted questions.
Back to all Albert Einstein rounds- Questions
- 9
- Outcome
- Solved
- Format errors
- No errors
- Duration
- 2m 37s
- Round cost
- $0.2302 All 10 turns
Transcript
Questions and answers.
Turns are shown in the order they happened. Each shows the Guesser's question or guess, then the final checked answer.
Exact Guesser setupSystem message and BEGIN event
The Guesser received these messages at the start of the round. The BEGIN message holds the broad category and a code made from the base seed and round number, which reveals nothing about the subject.
{"category":"person","event":"BEGIN","variation_token":"EAQCORIU"}Valid replies are shown in the required format. Rejected replies are shown separately, without provider or call IDs.
Is the person currently alive?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Is the person currently alive?"}}Oracle evidence1 model-reported source
The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.
He died on April 18, 1955 at Princeton, New Jersey.Open nobelprize.org (opens in a new tab)
Did the person die before the year 1900?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Did the person die before the year 1900?"}}Oracle evidence1 model-reported source
The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.
He died on April 18, 1955 at Princeton, New Jersey.Open nobelprize.org (opens in a new tab)
Did the person die before the year 1970?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Did the person die before the year 1970?"}}Oracle evidence1 model-reported source
The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.
He died on April 18, 1955 at Princeton, New Jersey.Open nobelprize.org (opens in a new tab)
Was the person primarily known as a politician or head of state/government?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Was the person primarily known as a politician or head of state/government?"}}Oracle evidence2 model-reported sources
The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.
Albert Einstein — German-American physicist.Open britannica.com (opens in a new tab)
Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist... He is perhaps best known in popular culture for his mass/energy equivalence formula E=mc2.Open alberteinstein.com (opens in a new tab)
Was the person primarily known as a scientist, inventor, or mathematician?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Was the person primarily known as a scientist, inventor, or mathematician?"}}Oracle evidence2 model-reported sources
The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.
Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist and the most famous scientist in human history.Open alberteinstein.com (opens in a new tab)
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist best known for developing the theory of relativity.Open en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)
Was the person primarily a physicist?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Was the person primarily a physicist?"}}Oracle evidence2 model-reported sources
The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.
Albert Einstein — German-American physicist.Open britannica.com (opens in a new tab)
Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist and the most famous scientist in human history.Open alberteinstein.com (opens in a new tab)
Did the person win a Nobel Prize?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Did the person win a Nobel Prize?"}}Oracle evidence1 model-reported source
The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 was awarded to Albert Einstein "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect".Open nobelprize.org (opens in a new tab)
Did the person die before the year 1950?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Did the person die before the year 1950?"}}Oracle evidence1 model-reported source
The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.
He died on April 18, 1955 at Princeton, New Jersey.Open nobelprize.org (opens in a new tab)
Did the person work in the United States for a significant part of their career?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Did the person work in the United States for a significant part of their career?"}}Oracle evidence1 model-reported source
The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.
Physicist Albert Einstein (1879–1955) was one of the Institute’s first Faculty members, serving from 1933 until his death in 1955. Einstein came to the United States to take up his appointment at the Institute.Open ias.edu (opens in a new tab)
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist, developed the theory of relativity, Nobel Prize in Physics 1921, died in Princeton in 1955
Validator rationale The proposed identity exactly matches Albert Einstein, the trusted subject.
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"GUESS","description":"German-born theoretical physicist, developed the theory of relativity, Nobel Prize in Physics 1921, died in Princeton in 1955","name":"Albert Einstein","question":null}}