In this version, the answerer tells the questioners at the start of the game whether the subject belongs to the animal, vegetable or mineral kingdom. Contents: 300 Cards, Game Board, Clue Board, 6 Playing Pieces, 20 Purple Chips, 5 Blue Chips, Instructions.

In addition, each contestant had a computerized scribble pad that showed the audience the answers they thought the answer could be. Right now, 20Q is being ported over to Apple servers to keep up with the traffic, and it is being trained in new languages: French, Spanish, Chinese, Italian to start with (it will become separate neural nets for each language).The panel comprised Richard Dimbleby, Jack Train, Anona Winn and Joy Adamson, in later years comedian Peter Glaze also. Little did he know, he created a monster, capable of learning and processing thousands of words, by challenging humans to the classic game Twenty Questions.

Based on the traditional guessing game, played on most long journeys, school trips and holidays with the parents, this game has been bought into the 21st century! Go to step 3 until out of questions or probability of a single answer is beyond a predefined "certainty" threshold.

A player in control would asks either of the two questions, and if the answer was yes, that player would retain control of the board; otherwise, he/she would lose control.