The Turing Test

In 1950, Alan Turing developed the Turing Test, meant to help distinguish between a person and a machine programmed to behave and respond like a person. Now, a new test has been developed for today's more sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI). Its creator, the Programmer, has designed the ultimate social test for their AI--a dinner party! While most of the guests are human, some of them are AI posing as human. By the end of the party, the guests attending must determine who is human and who has been programmed to act human.

Meet the Guests

In the Turing Test, players receive Backgrounds to help them assume the role of one of the party guests. Guests also receive several Traits that provide guidelines for certain Human or AI behaviors to use during the game. The guests get up and mingle, engage in conversation, ask questions, and observe each others' behavior to deduce who is AI and who is human.

Players have to follow "protocol" during conversation to remind them to weave their Traits and Background in their response. There is always at least one Artificial Intelligence in each game -- but there may be more -- so you can never fully trust anyone!

Suspicious Behavior

After mingling, each guest assigns Suspicion Tokens. These Suspicion tokens are assigned secretly, allowing humans to identify who they think is AI, while also allowing the AI to deflect attention away from themselves toward other guests.

At the end of the game, the guests who raised the most Suspicion reveal their traits to show whether they were AI or human -- if the AI guests gained the most suspicion during play, the humans win! Otherwise, the AI blended in and passed the Turing Test.

Featured Components

The Turing Test includes 38 background cards, 46 question cards, and 60 trait cards. Each card is unique, allowing for thousands of possible guest combinations. Also includes 56 Suspicion Tokens and a 12 page rulebook formatted to quickly find key rules and info. It's everything you need to play with up to 15 people.

About the Game

The Turing Test is a social game by award-winning game designer Jay Little with additional development and extensive play testing by students from the University of Wisconsin-Stout. These students contributed to the game through a special Board Game Production & Processes class Jay Little teaches at the university.

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