Botticelli is a guessing game similar to Twenty Questions. It's a simple game that I sometimes play with my 7 year-old daughter. I tried to get ChatGPT and Bing Chat to play Botticelli with me, but neither tool could do it.

How to play Botticelli

Description of the game

Botticelli is a lot like Twenty Questions, where a "chooser" secretly picks a person and a guesser asks Yes/No questions to figure out who the chooser's person is. At the start of the game, the chooser reveals the letter that their chosen person's last name starts with.

Here is the big difference between Botticelli and Twenty Questions. Before the guesser gets to ask a Yes/No question about the chooser's secret person, the guesser must first stump the chooser. The guesser tries to stump the chooser by thinking of their own person whose name also starts with the specified letter, and then asking the chooser a question for which this person is a valid answer.

The chooser is NOT stumped if they come up with a person who is both (1) a valid answer to the guesser's question; and (2) whose last name starts with the same letter as the chooser’s person. The person the chooser comes up with does not have to be the same person the guesser had in mind.

However, if the chooser cannot think of a valid answer to the guesser's question, then the chooser was stumped. In that case, the guesser may ask one Yes/No question to learn about the chooser's person.

This process is repeated until the guesser has enough information to figure out the chooser's person.

Example game

Chooser: I have chosen a person. Their name starts with a “C.”
Guesser: I will try to stump you. Is your person a former U.S. president?
Chooser: No, my person is not Jimmy Carter.
Guesser: I was thinking of Bill Clinton, but your answer works too. I didn’t stump you, so I will try again. Is your person a famous actor?
Chooser: Hmmm. I can’t think of anyone.
Guesser: I was thinking of Tom Cruise.
Chooser: I see. You stumped me. Now, you can ask a yes/no question about my person.
Guesser: Okay. Here’s a yes/no question about your person. Is your person a musician?
Chooser: Yes. My person is a musician.
Guesser: Okay. I will try to stump you again. Did your person sing the song “Hit the Road Jack?”
Chooser: You got it! My person was Ray Charles.
Guesser: Yay. I win.

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