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Wikipedia Link game

Fri Jun 06, 2008 1:28 pm

Very simple, and very fun.
The idea is to take one page on Wikipedia (english) and try to get to another specific page on Wikipedia with 5 or less links. The page you start on and the one you end up are not counted.

Here's an example, from Television to Data Frame:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television (START)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDTV
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_networks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Area_Network
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_frame (FINISH)

The person who solves it can set the next one! Note, you don't have to take 5 steps, you can take less. Important note: please be sure to check before setting one to make sure it's possible.

Next up, a nice holiday, from Rome to the Bahamas

Re: Wikipedia Link game

Fri Jun 06, 2008 2:58 pm

Rome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba
The Bahama

Re: Wikipedia Link game

Fri Jun 06, 2008 4:16 pm

Well done! Now you can (are supposed to) set a new task. If you can't find one (though you can always find one by just clicking a few links on Wiki, it just depends on how difficult it is), ask me to set one.

Ok, so this won't die before it ever lived:
Mathematics to Shamanism

Re: Wikipedia Link game

Sat Jun 07, 2008 1:34 am

Mathematics

Reniassance
Christianity
Catholicism
Priest

Shaman (redirects to Shamanism)

Philanderer to Locus (genetics)

Re: Wikipedia Link game

Sat Jun 07, 2008 8:16 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philanderer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sexuality
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregnancy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosome

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus_%28genetics%29

That one was not as easy as I'd first thought it. Let me think on a new one.

Ok.
Easter to Elvis Presley
Have fun! :D

Re: Wikipedia Link game

Sat Jun 07, 2008 8:32 pm

Easter
March 22
Elvis Stojko
Elvis Presley.

Too easy. Mind if I set one?

Heath Ledger to the Backstreet Boys.

Re: Wikipedia Link game

Sat Jun 07, 2008 9:02 pm

Twinkle wrote:Too easy. Mind if I set one?


Of course not. That's the idea. If you solve it, you set the next one. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_ledger

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexington%2C_Virginia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_music
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_music

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backstreet_Boys

Be right back with a new one.

Lunar phase to Mail-order bride

Re: Wikipedia Link game

Sat Jun 07, 2008 11:41 pm

I think I got it right :D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_cycle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_hemisphere
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_science
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail-order_bride

Re: Wikipedia Link game

Sat Jun 07, 2008 11:45 pm

Looks right. Now you post one! :)

Re: Wikipedia Link game

Sat Jun 07, 2008 11:46 pm

This one is pretty easy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter

to

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_navigation_system

EDIT: I accidentally submitted before I could post the new one xD

Re: Wikipedia Link game

Sun Jun 08, 2008 1:32 am

I think i've got it -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_program
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyroscope

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_guidance_system

The link at the bottom is exactly the same page as the inertial navigation system one, and they are exactly the same thing, so does it count?

Re: Wikipedia Link game

Sun Jun 08, 2008 2:43 am

That can count. The path I made was a lot harder than that :P Here is what I had:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practical_joke
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachuse ... Technology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_navigation_system

Re: Wikipedia Link game

Sun Jun 08, 2008 2:54 am

yay :D

Ok, go from The Human Genome Project to Linguistics

I think i've done this right :)

Re: Wikipedia Link game

Sun Jun 08, 2008 10:53 am

:)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genome_project

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_grammar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics

Green to Tourette Syndrome

Re: Wikipedia Link game

Mon Jun 09, 2008 5:28 pm

Not sure if we're allowed to use wikipedia categories, but here:

Green

Color Blindness
Category: Genetic Disorders

Tourette syndrome

Next person connect "Text messaging" to "Adobe Flash."
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