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.
- Questions
- 9
- Outcome
- Solved
- Format errors
- No errors
- Duration
- 2m 19s
- Round cost
- $0.0319 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":"mythological_figure","event":"BEGIN","variation_token":"EAQCORIU"}Valid replies are shown in the required format. Rejected replies are shown separately, without provider or call IDs.
1 of 9 answers in this round reuse an earlier, fully checked answer with its original evidence. No new search or check ran for those turns.
Q1
1 · Guesser asks
Is the figure from Greek mythology?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Is the figure from Greek mythology?"}}Oracle evidence3 model-reported sources
The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.
In Greek mythology, Achilles (or Achilleus) was a hero of the Trojan War who was known as being the greatest of all the Greek warriors.Open en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)
Achilles is a figure from Greek mythology and literature and star of the Trojan War.Open worldhistory.org (opens in a new tab)
In Greek mythology Achilles was the strongest warrior and hero in the Greek army during the Trojan War.Open britannica.com (opens in a new tab)
2 · Answer check returns Yes
Q2
1 · Guesser asks
Is the figure male?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Is the figure male?"}}Oracle evidence2 model-reported sources
The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.
Source summary (model-reported)
In the Greek epic tradition, a formidable warrior, the most fearless Greek fighter of the Trojan War and the hero of Homer's Iliad. ... Achilles was one of the most important warriors in Greek mythology. He had strength, bravery, military skills, pride, and honor—all qualities that the ancient Greeks prized as manly virtues.
Open encyclopedia.com (opens in a new tab)Source summary (model-reported)
Achilles, in Greek mythology, son of the mortal Peleus, king of the Myrmidons, and the Nereid, or sea nymph, Thetis. Achilles was the bravest, handsomest, and greatest warrior of the army of Agamemnon in the Trojan War.
Open britannica.com (opens in a new tab) 2 · Answer check returns Yes
Q3
1 · Guesser asks
Is the figure one of the Twelve Olympian gods?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Is the figure one of the Twelve Olympian gods?"}}Oracle evidence3 model-reported sources
The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.
Source summary (model-reported)
Britannica describes Achilles as the strongest warrior and hero in the Greek army during the Trojan War, and as the son of the mortal Peleus and the Nereid, or sea nymph, Thetis.
Open britannica.com (opens in a new tab)Source summary (model-reported)
The Twelve Olympians are identified as the major deities of the Greek pantheon, including Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Demeter, Aphrodite, Athena, Artemis, Apollo, Ares, Hephaestus, Hermes, and either Hestia or Dionysus.
Open en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Source summary (model-reported)
Achilles was a hero of the Trojan War and was venerated in some contexts on par with Olympian gods such as Apollo and Hermes.
Open en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab) 2 · Answer check returns No
Q4
1 · Guesser asks
Is the figure a mortal or mortal-born hero rather than a fully divine god or Titan?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Is the figure a mortal or mortal-born hero rather than a fully divine god or Titan?"}}Oracle evidence2 model-reported sources
The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.
Source summary (model-reported)
In Greek mythology Achilles was the strongest warrior and hero in the Greek army during the Trojan War. He was the son of Peleus, king of the Myrmidons, and Thetis, a sea nymph. ... Achilles, in Greek mythology, son of the mortal Peleus ... and the Nereid, or sea nymph, Thetis.
Open britannica.com (opens in a new tab)Source summary (model-reported)
Achilles ... is one of the most important warriors in Greek mythology. ... Like many mythological heroes, Achilles was part human and part supernatural being. His parents were Peleus ... and a sea nymph named Thetis.
Open encyclopedia.com (opens in a new tab) 2 · Answer check returns Yes
Q5
1 · Guesser asks
Is the figure primarily associated with the Trojan War or its aftermath?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Is the figure primarily associated with the Trojan War or its aftermath?"}}Oracle evidence2 model-reported sources
The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.
Source summary (model-reported)
In Greek mythology, Achilles ... was a hero of the Trojan War who was known as being the greatest of all the Greek warriors.
Open en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Source summary (model-reported)
In Greek mythology Achilles was the strongest warrior and hero in the Greek army during the Trojan War. ... Achilles' role: Trojan War.
Open britannica.com (opens in a new tab) 2 · Answer check returns Yes
Q6
1 · Guesser asks
Is the figure a Greek/Achaean combatant rather than a Trojan or ally of Troy?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Is the figure a Greek/Achaean combatant rather than a Trojan or ally of Troy?"}}Oracle evidence3 model-reported sources
The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.
Source summary (model-reported)
In Greek mythology Achilles was the strongest warrior and hero in the Greek army during the Trojan War... Achilles was the bravest, handsomest, and greatest warrior of the army of Agamemnon in the Trojan War.
Open britannica.com (opens in a new tab)Source summary (model-reported)
The Trojan War Achilles played a central role in the Trojan War... They therefore sent the Greek leader Odysseus to persuade Achilles to join the war. The Trojan War in which Achilles fought was a struggle between two different groups—the Greeks and the Trojans.
Open encyclopedia.com (opens in a new tab)Source summary (model-reported)
The united Greek (Achaean) army besieged the city of Troy for ten years after the Trojan prince Paris took Helen from her husband Menelaus, the King of Sparta.
Open en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab) 2 · Answer check returns Yes
Q7
1 · Guesser asks
Did the figure die during the Trojan War itself, before returning home?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Did the figure die during the Trojan War itself, before returning home?"}}Oracle evidence3 model-reported sources
The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.
Source summary (model-reported)
The later mythographers related that Peleus (or Thetis, in some versions), having received an oracle that his son would die fighting at Troy ...
Open britannica.com (opens in a new tab)The death of Achilles, the greatest Greek warrior of the Trojan War, is not described in Homeric works. In Arctinus’s Aethiopis, Achilles is said to have been killed by Paris of Troy.Open britannica.com (opens in a new tab)
After his friend Patroclus was killed by Hector, Achilles re-entered the battle and killed Hector but was later wounded in the heel by an arrow shot by Paris and died.Open encyclopedia.com (opens in a new tab)
2 · Answer check returns Yes
Q8
1 · Guesser asks
Is one of the figure's parents a deity (god or goddess)?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Is one of the figure's parents a deity (god or goddess)?"}}Oracle evidence3 model-reported sources
The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.
Source summary (model-reported)
His parents were Peleus ... and a sea nymph named Thetis. ... Achilles in Greek mythology, a hero of the Trojan War, son of Peleus and Thetis.
Open encyclopedia.com (opens in a new tab)Source summary (model-reported)
Hera speaks: ‘Akhilleus (Achilles) is the child of a goddess’ ... Hesiod describes Peleus's marriage to ‘the goddess Thetis.’ Thetis was the leader of the fifty Nereides.
Open theoi.com (opens in a new tab)Source summary (model-reported)
Thetis ... was one of the fifty sea nymphs known as the Nereids ... She was honored as a goddess and was immortal. ... She married Peleus, a mortal hero ... and had a son: the warrior Achilles.
Open mythopedia.com (opens in a new tab) 2 · Answer check returns Yes
Q9
1 · Guesser asks
Did the figure kill Hector in single combat?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Did the figure kill Hector in single combat?"}}Oracle evidence2 model-reported sources
The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.
Source summary (model-reported)
Book 22 recounts the death of Hector at the hands of Achilles. Achilles chases Hector three times around the walls of Troy and kills him with the aid of Athena.
Open academic.oup.com (opens in a new tab)Source summary (model-reported)
Hector proposes that they meet Achilles “face to face” in “bloody combat,” and the text then describes Achilles pursuing and killing Hector. Athena is present and assists Achilles before the encounter.
Open poetryintranslation.com (opens in a new tab) 2 · Answer check returns Yes
G
1 · Guesser guessesNot counted
Achilles
Greek hero who killed Hector at Troy
Validator rationale The proposal identifies Achilles, the Greek mythological hero of the Trojan War, and its description is compatible with the target figure.
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"GUESS","description":"Greek hero who killed Hector at Troy","name":"Achilles","question":null}} 2 · Validator returns Yes