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An In-depth Analysis: Guess Who

As promised on Twitter (follow me, on second thought... don't, I'm boring) I will go way too in depth on the family room classic, Guess Who. Here we go. I should probably get the board out for reference.. So for you monkeys who have not played this wondrous game, I shall explain the premise. You start by each selecting a card with a character's face on it. That face is somewhere on a flipy-board thing each player has, which consists of 23 other faces. The object of the game is to guess your opponent's mystery person by asking yes-or-no elimination questions. Based on the answer you get, you knock down the characters that don't fit the description. So you could ask random questions, but there definitely is a strategy to ask particular questions to eliminate the most people. Some may call this cheating.. it's not. I checked. Normal questions would include something like, "Is your person's hair white?" or "Is your person female?". ...