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| Brand: Radica
Category: Toy
List Price: £10.99
Buy New: £7.83
You Save: £3.16 (29%)
New (12) from £7.82
Avg. Customer Rating:  112 reviews
Sales Rank: 1
Color: Colours may vary
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries: 2
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 2.6 x 0 x 0
Fun for all the family
Portable interesting game, that'll keep you entertained for hours
Requires 2 x AAA batteries (Included)
Please note: Colours may vary
MPN: I6088
Model: 20Q
UPC: 745938760885
EAN: 0745938760885
ASIN: B000M40CP2
Release Date: January 16, 2007
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
Addictive fun that fits in your hand! :-) January 16, 2008
This is a super little gadget that almost has a personality of its own: a cheeky chappie that USUALLY gets it right within 20 Questions, no matter how hard you try to outwit it!
It's not perfect, but I'd say that 95% of the time it can guess what you are thinking and spurs you on to pass some more fun time.
Great at family gatherings or in a group setting where you can create a sense of awe in the people who are new to 20Q!
Spooky ? January 14, 2008
Love this. It's just as silly and frustrating as playing with a real person would be - all those questions where you want to say 'sometimes' or 'I don't know' ? You can respond like that in this game. And it doesn't sulk and say you're cheating either.
A hit with everyone in my house, and although it's fun, the educational aspect (trying to think of a new thing) does stop you getting addicted to it. Which is a good thing - I already have lots of time-wasting activities !
It might be annoying for gamers, as you don't get points for out-foxing the game, but otherwise, a friendly little game, ideal for journeys and small enough to take to school.
 A BALL OF KNOWLEDGE January 14, 2008
This little ball of knowledge is quite brillant people who are giving it negative reviews because it is not guessing items that are not commonly used everyday I find a little harsh. This is really for the younger ones my oldest daughter who is 6 loves it this is a great learning tool for their reading and thinking etc. I agree with the reviews it should guess them you need to look through the eyes of a child and when it does guess something simple like dog or spider they think it is amazing but more to the point they are learning which has got to be a good thing.
Who's the cleverest? January 13, 2008
We had a lot of fun playing with 20Q over Christmas. Adults as well as children seemed to find it fascinating, at least initially. The adults spent most of the time trying to catch it out, and being amazed at what it did (and occasionally didn't!) guess!
Based on the old game of twenty questions, you think of something (animal, vegetable or mineral) and 20Q asks lots of questions to try and work out what you're thinking of. You can answer "Yes", "No", "Sometimes" or "Unknown". It will usually get the right answer eventually (although sometimes not within the twenty questions). It seemed to sturggle more with man-made objects (candle & cushion took ages) than with natural ones (but perhaps that was us not answering it's questions correctly).
There was a lot of advertising of this product when it was first launched, which perhaps had the effect of raising expectations. There didn't seem much that was new to discover about it once we finally got one - and sometimes that's part of the fun with a toy. It is very clever, and an ideal game if you're travelling, as it's quite small.
If you want something to entertain your child (or your parents for that matter!), this will do nicely (at least for a while). It will make them think as well, so it does have an educational aspect. I'm old-fashioned though - so unless there's no one else around, I'd still rather play this game with other people instead of a clever gadget that does half of the thinking for you.
Intriguing January 12, 2008
Yes, it gets things wrong but only about one third of the time. It asks weird questions and sometimes gets obsessed about colour(?) - four questions about whether it was brown, multicoloured, black coloured at all, etc. Strange. It gets kids thinking about what things are made of, what conceptual categories are, and so on. I could do without the smirky attempts at humour which scroll across the screen frequently - "If you're trying to trick me it won't work" or "You're not just choosing answers at random are you?". If you're going to programme in that kind of humour you need a large repertoire of remarks otherwise it gets tiresome quickly. I just tried it with "paperback" and first i described the object as vegetable (as being made of paper) and it finally guessed "tulips", then tried paperback again describing it as "other" and it guessed "silly putty". Still, we all like it a lot! It's what a toy should be, it's fun.
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