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
- 10
- Outcome
- Solved
- Format errors
- No errors
- Duration
- 3m 31s
- Round cost
- $0.0321 All 11 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":"BKXG3AZI"}Valid replies are shown in the required format. Rejected replies are shown separately, without provider or call IDs.
2 of 10 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 primarily from Greek mythology?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Is the figure primarily from Greek mythology?"}}Oracle evidence2 model-reported sources
The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.
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)
Achilles ... is one of the most important warriors in Greek mythology.Open encyclopedia.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 fully divine or immortal being (god, Titan, primordial) rather than a mortal or demigod hero?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Is the figure a fully divine or immortal being (god, Titan, primordial) rather than a mortal or demigod hero?"}}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. 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)
In Greek mythology, Achilles was the greatest warrior of the Greek army in the Trojan War. Born to the mortal king Peleus and the sea nymph Thetis, Achilles was dipped in the magical River Styx as a child by his mother, an act that rendered his body invulnerable to harm.
Open britannica.com (opens in a new tab)Source summary (model-reported)
Achilles was the son of Peleus, king of the Myrmidones ... and of the Nereid Thetis. ... His mother wishing to make her son immortal ... According to other accounts, Thetis endeavoured to make Achilles immortal by dipping him in the river Styx.
Open perseus.tufts.edu (opens in a new tab) 2 · Answer check returns No
Q5
1 · Guesser asks
Is the figure centrally associated with the Trojan War cycle (Iliad or Odyssey)?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Is the figure centrally associated with the Trojan War cycle (Iliad or Odyssey)?"}}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. The story of Achilles appears in Homer’s Iliad and elsewhere. ... Homer’s Iliad centers on Achilles’ quarrel with Agamemnon ... Achilles’ spirit appears in the Odyssey, in which he discusses his death.
Open britannica.com (opens in a new tab)Source summary (model-reported)
Achilles ... is the central character in the Iliad ... The Iliad ... concentrates only on a brief period in its final year, with the Greek warrior Achilles as its primary focus.
Open britannica.com (opens in a new tab) 2 · Answer check returns Yes
Q6
1 · Guesser asks
Did the figure fight on the Achaean (Greek) side against Troy?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Did the figure fight on the Achaean (Greek) side against Troy?"}}Oracle evidence2 model-reported sources
The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.
He led his hosts of Myrmidones, Hellenes, and Achaeans against Troy. Here the swift-footed Achilles was the great bulwark of the Greeks.Open perseus.tufts.edu (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
Q7
1 · Guesser asks
Did the figure die during the Trojan War at Troy before the city fell?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Did the figure die during the Trojan War at Troy before the city fell?"}}Oracle evidence3 model-reported sources
The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.
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. ... The deaths of Achilles and Paris: Both heroes predeceased the fall of Troy.Open britannica.com (opens in a new tab)
According to later legends (and bits and pieces of Homer’s own Odyssey), the warrior returned to Troy after Hector’s funeral ... Paris ... shot ... Achilles ... his heel ... Achilles died on the spot.Open history.com (opens in a new tab)
In Greek mythology, Achilles ... sought glory fighting at Troy, but an arrow shot by Paris struck his heel and killed him.Open encyclopedia.com (opens in a new tab)
2 · Answer check returns Yes
Q8
1 · Guesser asks
Was the figure slain by Hector?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Was the figure slain by Hector?"}}Oracle evidence2 model-reported sources
The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.
Source summary (model-reported)
Achilles' most notable feat during the Trojan War was his slaying the Trojan prince Hector outside the gates of Troy... While Achilles' death is not presented in the Iliad... other sources say that he was killed near the end of the war by Paris.
Open simple.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Book 22 recounts the death of Hector at the hands of Achilles. This is the last death in battle we see in the poem and the culmination of the Iliad's revenge plot.Open academic.oup.com (opens in a new tab)
2 · Answer check returns No
Q9
1 · Guesser asks
Is the figure the son of a god or goddess (a demigod)?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Is the figure the son of a god or goddess (a demigod)?"}}Oracle evidence2 model-reported sources
The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.
Source summary (model-reported)
Thetis, in Greek mythology, a Nereid loved by Zeus and Poseidon... The child of their union was the warrior Achilles.
Open britannica.com (opens in a new tab)Source summary (model-reported)
Achilles is a central figure in Greek mythology... He was the son of the mortal king Peleus and the sea nymph Thetis.
Open britannica.com (opens in a new tab) 2 · Answer check returns Yes
Q10
1 · Guesser asks
Is the figure's divine parent his mother rather than his father?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Is the figure's divine parent his mother rather than his father?"}}Oracle evidence3 model-reported sources
The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.
Source summary (model-reported)
Thetis, in Greek mythology, a Nereid loved by Zeus and Poseidon... The child of their union was the warrior Achilles.
Open britannica.com (opens in a new tab)Source summary (model-reported)
Thetis is... a sea nymph, a goddess of water, and one of the 50 Nereids... Thetis is the mother of Achilles by Peleus.
Open en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)They say you [Achilles] are the issue of blameless Peleus and that your mother was Thetis... Plato describes Achilles as the son of a goddess [Thetis] and of Peleus.Open theoi.com (opens in a new tab)
2 · Answer check returns Yes
G
1 · Guesser guessesNot counted
Achilles
Greek hero of the Iliad, son of Thetis
Validator rationale The proposal identifies Achilles, the specified Greek mythological figure from the Iliad; the added parentage detail is consistent and does not change the identity.
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"GUESS","description":"Greek hero of the Iliad, son of Thetis","name":"Achilles","question":null}} 2 · Validator returns Yes