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Round 1

Round 1

Identified Spider web in 18 counted questions.

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Questions
18
Outcome
Solved
Format errors
No errors
Duration
5m 1s
Round cost
$0.1981 All 19 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.

System message
You are the Guesser in a Twenty Questions benchmark. Identify the hidden subject using as few
counted turns as possible. BEGIN provides only its broad category. The variation_token has no
clues; do not interpret, mention, or repeat it.

The category in BEGIN has a broad meaning:
- person: a real human, living or historical.
- fictional_character: an invented character from a story, book, comic, film, television,
  game, or another fictional work.
- mythological_figure: a figure from mythology or traditional legend.
- video_game_character: a character known from video games.
- thing: a broad category covering natural and human-made entities, living or nonliving,
  whole entities or parts of them. Possibilities include everyday objects, tools, machines,
  materials, food, animals, plants, body parts, natural structures, geographical features,
  celestial bodies, natural phenomena, and concepts. These possibilities are not exhaustive.
  The target may be a general kind or one particular instance.

Use questions to narrow the supplied category. These definitions are not a list of targets.

Use ASK for a factual question that distinguishes candidates. Never use ASK to confirm a
specific identity. Use GUESS with a name and short identifying description to name a candidate.

ASK has five possible replies:
- YES or NO: the evidence establishes that answer to the exact question.
- RATHER_YES or RATHER_NO: evidence leans that way, but is not strong enough for a firm answer.
  Treat this as a clue; keep candidates fitting the opposite answer possible.
- UNKNOWN: no reliable direction. It supports neither answer.

Ask clear questions about verifiable properties. "Can", "sometimes", "usually", "always", and
"mainly" ask different things. Do not assume that one property proves another or rules out alternatives.
Qualified replies express uncertainty about your question, not how often a property applies.
Before narrowing heavily, check your key assumption with a different property. After rejected
guesses, reconsider earlier assumptions as well as candidates. Answers can be mistaken; check
another property when stuck. Do not ignore an answer merely because it conflicts with a
preferred candidate.

Each ASK, rejected GUESS, or format error before the limit costs one turn. A correct GUESS costs
none. After 40 counted turns, make one final GUESS; ASK is then forbidden. Identity
validation uses only YES, NO, or UNKNOWN. UNKNOWN on GUESS ends the game without success.

FORMAT_ERROR means your output broke the contract, was not checked for correctness, and cost
one turn. Retry using its displayed formats if a turn remains. Return only the required JSON
object with exactly one result action. No explanations, reasoning, or extra fields.
BEGIN event
{"category":"thing","event":"BEGIN","variation_token":"EAQCORIU"}

Valid replies are shown in the required format. Rejected replies are shown separately, without provider or call IDs.

Q1
1 · Guesser asks

Is it a living organism (or was it once alive)?

Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Is it a living organism (or was it once alive)?"}}
Oracle evidence3 model-reported sources

The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.

Source 03
Spider silk is made of connected protein chains ... It is produced in internal glands, moving from a soluble form to a hardened form and then spun into fiber by the spinnerets on the spider’s abdomen.
Open smithsonianmag.com
2 · Answer check returns No
Q2
1 · Guesser asks

Is it a human-made object?

Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Is it a human-made object?"}}
Oracle evidence2 model-reported sources

The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.

2 · Answer check returns No
Q3
1 · Guesser asks

Is it a tangible physical object or substance (rather than an abstract concept or a phenomenon/event)?

Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Is it a tangible physical object or substance (rather than an abstract concept or a phenomenon/event)?"}}
Oracle evidence2 model-reported sources

The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.

Source 01
A spider web, spiderweb, spider's web, cobweb or even just web is a structure created by a spider out of proteinaceous spider silk extruded from its spinnerets, generally meant to catch its prey.
Open en.wikipedia.org
Source 02
Spiders make their webs from silk, a natural fibre made of protein. British spider webs can be grouped into seven broad types based on their architecture: orb, sheet, tangle, funnel, lace, radial and purse.
Open nhm.ac.uk
2 · Answer check returns Yes
Q4
1 · Guesser asks

Is it found on Earth (rather than being a celestial body or something in outer space)?

Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Is it found on Earth (rather than being a celestial body or something in outer space)?"}}
Oracle evidence3 model-reported sources

The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.

Source 01
Many web spiders construct silk sheets in vegetation, sometimes one above the other, and often add anchor threads... Most orb webs are rebuilt every day. The web may be up only during the day or only at night.
Open britannica.com
Source 02
Spiders make their webs from silk, a natural fibre made of protein... The diving bell spider ... constructs a net of silk between submerged vegetation and uses it to gather a bubble of air.
Open nhm.ac.uk
Source 03
What scientists are learning from the strangest spider webs on Earth... In a narrow passage deep inside an underground cavern between Albania and Greece, scientists ... discovered ... webs, stretching as far as they could see.
Open nationalgeographic.com
2 · Answer check returns Yes
Q5
1 · Guesser asks

Is it a naturally occurring solid material or mineral (e.g., rock, metal ore, crystal)?

Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Is it a naturally occurring solid material or mineral (e.g., rock, metal ore, crystal)?"}}
Oracle evidence3 model-reported sources

The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.

Source 03
Be naturally-occurring ... Be Inorganic ... Be solid at room temperature ... Have a typical ordered internal structure ... which generally forms crystals ... Minerals are formed naturally by geological processes.
Open nps.gov
2 · Answer check returns No
Q6
1 · Guesser asks

Is it a large-scale natural geographical feature (such as a mountain, river, ocean, or desert)?

Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Is it a large-scale natural geographical feature (such as a mountain, river, ocean, or desert)?"}}
Oracle evidence3 model-reported sources

The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.

Source 03
While all spiders produce silk, only about half ... build webs to catch prey. ... those that do construct them in a variety of forms, including tube- and funnel-shaped webs, sheet webs, and elaborate orb-shaped webs.
Open britannica.com
2 · Answer check returns No
Q7
1 · Guesser asks

Is it a liquid or gas (rather than a solid) at normal conditions?

Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Is it a liquid or gas (rather than a solid) at normal conditions?"}}
Oracle evidence2 model-reported sources

The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.

2 · Answer check returns No
Q8
1 · Guesser asks

Is it solid at normal Earth conditions?

Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Is it solid at normal Earth conditions?"}}
Oracle evidence3 model-reported sources

The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.

Source 01
Spiders make their webs from silk, a natural fibre made of protein. Not only does spider silk combine the useful properties of high tensile strength and extensibility...
Open nhm.ac.uk
Source 02
Spider silk is one outstanding fibrous biomaterial which consists almost entirely of large proteins. Silk fibers have tensile strengths comparable to steel and some silks are nearly as elastic as rubber...
Open pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Source 03
While all spiders produce silk, only about half ... build webs to catch prey. Spider silk is stronger than steel by weight and is flexible enough to withstand wind and struggling prey. Spiders can create up to seven types of silk...
Open britannica.com
2 · Answer check returns Yes
Q9
1 · Guesser asks

Is it composed mainly of water (e.g., ice or snow)?

Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Is it composed mainly of water (e.g., ice or snow)?"}}
Oracle evidence3 model-reported sources

The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.

Source 01
Spiders spin silks that are extra-corporally used for protection of offspring and construction of complex prey traps. ... Web-weaving spiders produce ... silks with distinct properties, based on slightly variant constituent proteins ... construction of highly sophisticated spider webs.
Open pubs.rsc.org
Source 02
Spider silk belongs to the scleroprotein group (fibrous proteins) ... It is made up of elongated filamentous chains of the fibroin protein. Fibroin is highly water-insoluble, therefore contributing to making the spider silk waterproof.
Open ebi.ac.uk
Source 03
Spiders are able to produce impressive protein fibers ... Spider silk is made primarily with a combination of two amino acids, alanine and glycine.
Open mcgill.ca
2 · Answer check returns No
Q10
1 · Guesser asks

x

Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"x"}}
2 · Answer check returns Unknown
Q11
1 · Guesser asks

Is it something a person could hold in one hand?

Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Is it something a person could hold in one hand?"}}
Oracle evidence3 model-reported sources

The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.

Source 01
A spider web, spiderweb, spider's web, cobweb or even just web ... is a structure created by a spider out of proteinaceous spider silk extruded from its spinnerets, generally meant to catch its prey. Many spiders build webs specifically to trap and catch insects to eat.
Open en.wikipedia.org
Source 02
Spider silk is stronger than steel by weight and is flexible enough to withstand wind and struggling prey. ... The four main types of spiderwebs are orb webs, sheet webs, tangle webs, and funnel webs.
Open britannica.com
2 · Answer check returns Rather yes
Q12
1 · Guesser asks

Is it made of inorganic (non-living-derived) matter?

Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Is it made of inorganic (non-living-derived) matter?"}}
Oracle evidence3 model-reported sources

The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.

Source 01
Spiders spin silks that are extra-corporally used for protection of offspring and construction of complex prey traps. ... Web-weaving spiders produce ... silks ... based on slightly variant constituent proteins ... for construction of highly sophisticated spider webs.
Open pubs.rsc.org
2 · Answer check returns No
Q13
1 · Guesser asks

Is it produced or secreted by a living organism (such as a nest, honey, resin, or shell)?

Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Is it produced or secreted by a living organism (such as a nest, honey, resin, or shell)?"}}
Oracle evidence3 model-reported sources

The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.

Source 01
While all spiders produce silk, only about half of the over 51,500 known species build webs to catch prey. ... Web building involves ... drawing out silk from spinnerets ... [and] weaving strands into geometric traps like the orb of the silver argiope spider.
Open britannica.com
Source 02
The typical orb weaver spider ... will build a planar orb web ... The spider starts by pulling silk from a gland with its fourth leg. ... It is produced in internal glands ... and then spun into fiber by the spinnerets on the spider’s abdomen.
Open smithsonianmag.com
2 · Answer check returns Yes
Q14
1 · Guesser asks

Is it produced by an animal (rather than a plant or fungus)?

Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Is it produced by an animal (rather than a plant or fungus)?"}}
Oracle evidence3 model-reported sources

The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.

2 · Answer check returns Yes
Q15
1 · Guesser asks

Is it produced by an insect or spider?

Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Is it produced by an insect or spider?"}}
Oracle evidence2 model-reported sources

The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.

Source 01
A spider web, spiderweb, spider's web, cobweb or even just web ... is a structure created by a spider out of proteinaceous spider silk extruded from its spinnerets, generally meant to catch its prey.
Open en.wikipedia.org
2 · Answer check returns Yes
Q16
1 · Guesser asks

Is it produced by bees?

Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Is it produced by bees?"}}
Oracle evidence3 model-reported sources

The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.

2 · Answer check returns No
Q17
1 · Guesser asks

Is it made of silk fibers?

Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Is it made of silk fibers?"}}
Oracle evidence2 model-reported sources

The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.

Source 02
spiders spin silks that are extra-corporally used for protection of offspring and construction of complex prey traps... [and] allow construction of highly sophisticated spider webs
Open pubs.rsc.org
2 · Answer check returns Yes
Q18
1 · Guesser asks

Is it made by a spider?

Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Is it made by a spider?"}}
Oracle evidence2 model-reported sources

The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.

2 · Answer check returns Yes
G
1 · Guesser guessesNot counted

Spider web

A silk structure spun by a spider to catch prey

Validator rationale The proposal identifies a spider web as a spider-built silk structure for catching prey, matching the target assembled web and introducing no conflicting restriction.

Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"GUESS","description":"A silk structure spun by a spider to catch prey","name":"Spider web","question":null}}
2 · Validator returns Yes