{"slug": "lonely-20-questions-a-game-for-people-with-no-friends", "title": "lonely 20 questions, a game for people with no friends", "summary": "Developer foxmoss built a 20 Questions web game powered by a machine-learning model called jev that generates probabilities rather than text and uses no LLMs, according to the project's page. For each round jev picks 10 random nouns from Wonder Words, selects the easiest to guess, and evaluates each yes-or-no question to determine whether the player has identified the word. The project is offered through Hack Club AI for teenagers and is described as costing nearly nothing to run.", "body_md": "# lonely 20 questions\n\nyou may be sad and have no friends but you can still play 20 questions.\n\npowered by machine learning,\n      yes, yet uses no LLMs & costs nearly nothing to run.\n\n1 common english noun, 20 questions, ask yes or no questions.\n\nloading...\n\n### so how does this work?\n        \n\njev isn't an llm. it doesn't generate text. all it does is generate probabilities of choices i give it.\n        \n\nso in context, for every user 10 random nouns are picked from wonder words, jev decides whats the easiest\n          to guess and\n          uses\n          that word.\n        \n\nevery time you ask a question jev evaluates if question is yes or no, and if the question means you know\n          what\n          the word is.\n\nwe send those results back to the user, and that's the game.\n\nif you want to try out jev yourself & you're a teenager check out \n\n[hackclub\n            ai](https://ai.hackclub.com/)\n!\n\nif you want to see more from me, sign up to my email list. i make mostly low level engineering projects,\n          you\n          can check out my stuff at \n\n[foxmoss.com/blog/](https://foxmoss.com/blog/)\n\nonce a game finishes the full log of things sent to jev will show up here:\n\nreload the page to play again", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/lonely-20-questions-a-game-for-people-with-no-friends", "canonical_source": "https://20questions.foxmoss.com/", "published_at": "2026-09-18 12:42:40+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-18 12:55:49.061950+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["machine-learning", "ai-products", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["jev", "Wonder Words", "Hack Club AI", "foxmoss"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/lonely-20-questions-a-game-for-people-with-no-friends", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/lonely-20-questions-a-game-for-people-with-no-friends.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/lonely-20-questions-a-game-for-people-with-no-friends.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/lonely-20-questions-a-game-for-people-with-no-friends.jsonld"}}