Friday, June 15, 2007

A Great Game - Degrees of Wikipedia

Here is a game which just popped into my head a few minutes ago. I am pretty sure someone else has thought of it already, somewhere, but I don't know of it if has been thought up.

Start at one Wikipedia article, and get to another wikipedia article by following only the links in the articles.

It's kinda Like Six Degrees, but modern!

For instance, this is how you get from "Firefox" to "Abraham Lincoln":
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Firefox (Disambiguation)
  • Firefox (novel)
  • Cold War
  • United States
  • President of the United States
  • List of Presidents of the United States
  • Abraham Lincoln


From "Lego" to "Second Vatican Council":
  • Lego
  • Czech Republic
  • Roman Catholic
  • Second Vatican Council


And, here is a hard one: "John Calvin" to "Eggo" (as in "L'eggo my Eggo"):
  • John Calvin
  • Easter
  • Easter Egg and be credited for that.
  • egg
  • meat
  • food
  • Category:Lists_of_foods
  • List of Breakfast Cereals
  • Kellogg Company
  • Eggo


By the way, the credit for finding these goes to my brother.

So, there you go. If you want to try one for yourself, try this one: "Sloth" to "Wasabi"

If you like this game, please give a link to this page to your friends. In the unlikely case that I am the first one to think of this game, I would like to know.

If you have any challenges for paths, please feel free to post them in the comments.

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