What is the animal game?

ANIMAL is a game in which pupil teachers the computer not the other way around. The player chooses an animal and the program tries to guess what the animal is. If it fails it asks for a question that will help it to guess the animal next time. Every time it plays, the program adds more animals to its memory. The animals to its memory screen displays the questions and answers when ANIMAL is being played. This program started by “knowing” only three animals that live in water – place haddock and trout. Next time the program will know a fourth animal and have learned one way of telling the differences between a whale and the other three but if the next player happens to teach the computer. The player than has to think up good questions to give to the computer. When a whole classroom of pupils play this game they are also learning about animals from each other, by seeing the questions the computer has been given.