# Twenty Questions Reference Thread

**URL:** <https://community.goactuary.com/t/twenty-questions-reference-thread/1902>\
**Category:** Games\
**Tags:** thread-games, 20Qs\
**Created:** [January 28, 2021, 12:51pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/twenty-questions-reference-thread/1902 "2021-01-28T12:51:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lucy](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/lucy/32/8802_2.png) [@Lucy](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Lucy)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 12:53pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/twenty-questions-reference-thread/1902/2 "2021-01-28T12:53:47Z")

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Here are the initial rules, as cited by soyleche, who started the games:

> [@20 Questions Game1](https://community.goactuary.com/t/20-questions-game1/1903/1):
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> I am thinking of an object. Use yes/no\* questions to figure it out. If you don’t get it in 20 questions or less, I win.
> 
> A couple notes:
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> 1- The count goes up for each question. Anyone and everyone can ask questions. Any question I answer will go towards the count (see notes 2 & 3). Repeat questions will not be answered (or go towards the count).
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> 2- I will only answer one question per poster in between times that I get around to answering. After I answer, everyone is free to ask another.
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> 3- If you try and be clever and ask compound questions, ("Is it X or Y, but not Z - that sort of thing), I will probably just answer the first part (“Is it X”), but I may decide to include more of it - completely at my discretion.
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> 4- If you ask something like “Is it bigger than…”, I will default to volume as the metric unless you specify otherwise.
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> I may come up with other notes and caveats if they become necessary.
> 
> \*there might be times that “maybe” or “most of the time” or something like that could be required.

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