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thalberg

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The Wikipedia game

on: April 29, 2008, 08:04:00 AM

I propose a game which I hope will be fun.

You give someone a starting point article and an ending point article from Wikipedia.

That person then must navigate from one article to the other just by using hyperlinks within each article.

So I might challenge you to get from Bengal (cat) to Edward Elgar. You would look up Bengal cat, then click on the United Kingdom hyperlink, then scroll down to music and click on the Edward Elgar link.

Of course that is a short and simple one.

Anyone want to play this game?

(you must make sure your path is possible before you challenge someone. And it is good to give your link path when you solve each puzzle.)

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thalberg

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Re: The Wikipedia game

Reply #1 on: April 29, 2008, 08:07:03 AM

Okay I will start:

See if you can get from "Johann Sebastian Bach" to "Johnny Depp"

Haha it can be done!

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Re: The Wikipedia game

Reply #2 on: April 29, 2008, 08:35:10 AM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Js_bach
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis%2C_Missouri
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actors%27_Equity_Association
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Quinn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Awards
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Academy_Award-winning_films
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean:_Dead_Man%27s_Chest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Depp

I wonder how your path differs from mine... ??

Ok, my turn... This is kinda fun!

FROM: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
TO: Sherlock Holmes

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Re: The Wikipedia game

Reply #3 on: April 29, 2008, 09:31:45 AM

@jsbach - depp again:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Js_bach
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Motion_Picture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Drama_films
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Drama_films&from=P
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platoon_%28film%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Depp

quite fun finding the shortest way

mozart-holmes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Christian_Bach
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Charlotte
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_literature
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes

Edit: Next: c++ to gene.

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Re: The Wikipedia game

Reply #4 on: April 29, 2008, 09:40:16 AM

Quote from: term on April 29, 2008, 09:31:45 AM

quite fun finding the shortest way

mozart-holmes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Christian_Bach
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Charlotte
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_literature
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes

indeed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeus_%28film%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Action_Hero
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Houdini
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes

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Re: The Wikipedia game

Reply #5 on: April 29, 2008, 10:12:15 AM

Quote from: jlh on April 29, 2008, 09:40:16 AM

indeed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeus_%28film%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Action_Hero
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Houdini
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes

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thalberg

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Re: The Wikipedia game

Reply #6 on: April 29, 2008, 02:59:14 PM

Quote from: jlh on April 29, 2008, 08:35:10 AM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Js_bach
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis%2C_Missouri
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actors%27_Equity_Association
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Quinn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Awards
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Academy_Award-winning_films
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean:_Dead_Man%27s_Chest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Depp

I wonder how your path differs from mine... ??

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bach
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toccata_and_Fugue_in_D_minor%2C_BWV_565
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean:_Dead_Man%27s_Chest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Depp

There's the shortest answer for the puzzle I proposed.

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thalberg

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Re: The Wikipedia game

Reply #7 on: April 29, 2008, 03:02:56 PM

Quote from: term on April 29, 2008, 09:31:45 AM

Edit: Next: c++ to gene.

That's hard! I tried.

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Reply #8 on: April 29, 2008, 03:56:20 PM

C++ to gene

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-level_programming_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_sequence

That was quite interesting

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Reply #9 on: April 29, 2008, 04:09:41 PM

This one should be fairly difficult

"Rainforest" to "Cerenkov radiation"

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Reply #10 on: April 29, 2008, 04:14:23 PM

How about Beethoven to Jenna Jameson?

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Reply #11 on: April 29, 2008, 04:39:01 PM

Easy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_orientation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_pornography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornographic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playboy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_Jenna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenna_Jameson

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Re: The Wikipedia game

Reply #12 on: April 29, 2008, 06:17:36 PM

Quote from: yuc4h on April 29, 2008, 04:09:41 PM

This one should be fairly difficult

"Rainforest" to "Cerenkov radiation"

Probably not the shortest, but whatever.^^

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainforest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_decay
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation

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Reply #13 on: April 29, 2008, 06:24:08 PM

how about Chopin to Barrack Obama

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Re: The Wikipedia game

Reply #14 on: April 29, 2008, 08:20:07 PM

chopin to obama
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chopin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornel_Wilde
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama

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Reply #15 on: April 29, 2008, 08:29:49 PM

C++ to gene
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C++
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene

HAH

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Reply #16 on: April 29, 2008, 09:06:56 PM

Quote from: Kassaa on April 29, 2008, 08:29:49 PM

C++ to gene
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C++
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene

HAH

nice! My own was 2 links longer.

For the freaks, a hard one: From 'solitaire' to 'sea of marmara'.

Guess its not actually hard, but at least a little bit more demanding.

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Re: The Wikipedia game

Reply #17 on: April 29, 2008, 09:48:26 PM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitaire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Sea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Marmara

oh yeah

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jlh

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Re: The Wikipedia game

Reply #18 on: April 29, 2008, 09:51:39 PM

...and another option, since you posted 2 minutes before I did...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitaire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Sea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Marmara

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Re: The Wikipedia game

Reply #19 on: April 29, 2008, 09:55:20 PM

Hm... Bob disambiguation page to... Snails

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Reply #20 on: April 29, 2008, 10:01:32 PM

Quote from: Etude on April 29, 2008, 09:55:20 PM

Hm... Bob disambiguation page to... Snails

EASY!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpongeBob
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snail

Bob disambiguation page to...

The Star Spangled Banner

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Reply #21 on: April 29, 2008, 10:07:59 PM

Well that was a lot easier than my way...

lets see...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner

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Reply #22 on: April 29, 2008, 10:46:47 PM

How about...
List of compositions by Bohuslav Martinů to Kardashev scale.
That ought to take a while...

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Re: The Wikipedia game

Reply #23 on: April 30, 2008, 07:11:54 AM

Quote from: term on April 29, 2008, 06:17:36 PM

Probably not the shortest, but whatever.^^

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainforest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_decay
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation

Not quite the same as mine but I didn't manage to find any shorter routes, mine also had 6 steps

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thalberg

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Re: The Wikipedia game

Reply #24 on: April 30, 2008, 07:41:34 AM

New Challenge:

"Britney Spears" to "Adolf Hitler."

Who is up for it? It can be done!

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Reply #25 on: April 30, 2008, 11:14:10 AM

Quote from: Essyne on April 29, 2008, 09:48:26 PM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitaire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Sea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Marmara

oh yeah

lol.

I tell you, its simply not possible to make this game difficult, except finding the shortest possible way, but even that is...moderate.

spears - hitler:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britney_spears
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftwaffe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler

next: from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zomba_Label_Group
to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_rly

hard one.

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Re: The Wikipedia game

Reply #26 on: April 30, 2008, 02:14:10 PM

Quote from: term on April 30, 2008, 11:14:10 AM

lol.
I tell you, its simply not possible to make this game difficult, except finding the shortest possible way, but even that is...moderate.

spears - hitler:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britney_spears
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftwaffe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler

next: from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zomba_Label_Group
to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_rly

hard one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zomba_Label_Group
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_Music_Entertainment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_phenomena
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_RLY%3F

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Reply #27 on: April 30, 2008, 02:34:44 PM

Scarlatti to Tom Sawyer

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Reply #28 on: April 30, 2008, 08:35:30 PM

actually, that was easy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domenico_Scarlatti
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Tom_Sawyer

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