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micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24701 Posts
December 24 2016 04:37 GMT
#1
Here's a really silly game. You pick two wikipedia articles that are unrelated, and try to get from one page to the other only by clicking links within the articles. Your score is the number of clicks you need to get from the first article to the last article.

For example, I clicked random page a bunch of times until I found two unrelated pages on topics I was familiar with. Specifically, Touchdown Celebration and Americans in Japan. I started from Americans in Japan, clicked on 'United States,' then 'American Football,' then 'touchdown,' then 'touchdown celebration' in the see also section. In this case, I earned a score of 4.

It is quite possible to get a different score depending on how efficiently you choose links within each article. I think a score of four is unusually low for this game, and that's probably because the two random articles I chose were actually kind of similar. Here's a more challenging one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggplant

to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tippe_top

What score will you get?

*
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Ilikestarcraft
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Korea (South)17727 Posts
December 24 2016 05:55 GMT
#2
In before someone writes a program for this
"Nana is a goddess. Or at very least, Nana is my goddess." - KazeHydra
GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51482 Posts
December 24 2016 05:59 GMT
#3
On December 24 2016 14:55 Ilikestarcraft wrote:
In before someone writes a program for this


already done
http://thewikigame.com/
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Ilikestarcraft
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Korea (South)17727 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-12-24 06:16:35
December 24 2016 06:10 GMT
#4
Ah I wasn't thinking about a game. I just meant a program that calculates the shortest path between an article with another hence "beating" the game.
"Nana is a goddess. Or at very least, Nana is my goddess." - KazeHydra
FiWiFaKi
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada9859 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-12-24 06:28:05
December 24 2016 06:26 GMT
#5
Nice one, I completed the first one:

1) "Food energy" in the nutritional information
2) "Chemical energy" in the intro, let's get more fundamental
3) "Energy" in the thermodynamics section
4) Classical mechanics
5) Euler
6) "List of things named after Leonhard Euler"
7) "Euler's disk"
8) "Tippe top"

Tada.

Now I've got one (hard mode):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorio

to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beechworth_Correctional_Centre
In life, the journey is more satisfying than the destination. || .::Entrepreneurship::. Living a few years of your life like most people won't, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can't || Mechanical Engineering & Economics Major
YokoKano
Profile Blog Joined July 2012
United States612 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-12-24 07:18:26
December 24 2016 07:15 GMT
#6
protip: almost all the pages are available from RichardDawkinsFoundation if you're willing to use the onezoom mod.

http://www.ancestorstale.net/OneZoom/static/trees/AT.html/@=635958?vis=spiral#x227,y595,w0.3578

edit: i remember how cool encyclopedias were as a kid.
IQ 155.905638752
Espers
Profile Joined August 2009
United Kingdom606 Posts
December 24 2016 20:52 GMT
#7
Factoria -> Steam Early Access -> DayZ -> Dean Hall -> New Zealand -> Australia -> Victoria -> Beechworth -> HM Prison Beechworth -> Beechworth Correctional Centre
LightTemplar
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Ireland481 Posts
December 25 2016 01:22 GMT
#8
Factorio -> Video game -> eb games expo -> australia -> music of australia -> the masters apprentices -> Glenn Wheatley -> Beechworth Correctional Centre.

Got to Australia faster but still 4 to go after that.
"Thoughts are always there, the mind can't stop" - Grubby
GeneralStan
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States4789 Posts
December 26 2016 07:48 GMT
#9
There's a website where you can race against other people doing exactly this thing!
http://thewikigame.com/
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24701 Posts
December 26 2016 21:16 GMT
#10
So it turns out, this game has been implemented on a website and times you to see how quickly you can find your way from the starting wikipedia page to the final wikipedia page:

http://thewikigame.com/
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