The Wikipedia Game

[captainofbeef]

This is a cool game that can be quite addicting and sometimes difficult. I expect ie to be very proficient at it.

For instance, try to get from The Beatles to Dr. Dre.

Here is how you do it The Beatles, then click on genres in the first paragraph, which will bring you here Genres. Then, click Hip Hop/Rap/Rapcore and under that subsection click G Funk which will take you here G Funk. Then click Dr. Dre which will lead you here Dr Dre

There you have it, The Beatles to Dr. Dre in 3 easy steps. That was a pretty simple one. Lets try something similarly easy, but a little more obscure.

Bruce Springsteen to Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

[ie]

Oh, I tried this once with a really impossible situation. I think it started with a rap group and ended with Kevin Bacon, because these things always end with Kevin Bacon. After going through about 16 articles, I cheated my way to the goal.

And by cheating, I mean going the "genres" route you listed in your example. Or going by year.


How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?

Bruce Springsteen
1.) Like a Rolling Stone
2.) The Beatles
3.) I am the Walrus
4.) Buffy the Vampire Slayer

A onne, a twooo, a threeee, a fooour. A fooour.


I'll give you a medium challenge:

EarthBound to the Criterion Collection. I estimate five to seven clicks.

At least I didn't go with Pierrot le Fou to Piltdown Man, or Autopen to Kevin Bacon.

[sacrilegend]

OH MY WORD, I give up. I can't! I've tried it from every angle and it's just infuriating and exhausting. I respect you.

[kiddo]

1. Earthbound
2. Blues brothers
3. John Goodman
4. The Big Lebowski
5. Steve buscemi
6. Armageddon
7. The Criterion Collection

[ie]

Holy nice.

Technically, you got it in six clicks, because I don't count the page you start out on.


You're up to choose the Wikipedia article to Wikipedia article.

[kiddo]

Great. How about his one:

Twin Peaks (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_peaks)
to
Guardian angel (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian_angel_%28spirit%29)

(I got it in five clicks)

[criterionmaster]

That is so hard, I have been trying to get it and it is just imposssible. Someone else better get it.

[kiddo]

Ok, a hint:

Think about the gardian angel in It's a Wonderful life.

[captainofbeef]

1. Twin Peaks
2. David Lynch
3. Jimmy Stewart
4. It's A Wonderful Life
5. Guardian angel
;D

[kiddo]

Yes, very much so sir.

[captainofbeef]

Washington Irving

to
Daniel Craig

5 clicks.

[sacrilegend]

YES!

THREEEEEEEEeeEeEEEEeeeee clicks!

1) Washington Irving
2) The United Kingdom
3) Cinema of The United Kingdom
4) Daniel Craig

I need, like, fifty exaltations for that. (Cracking one of these has been my obsession since I tried the first twenty-three times)

[captainofbeef]

Wow, nice. Different than I did it. Mine was
1. Washington Irving
2. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
3. Sleepy Hollow (1999)
4. Christopher Walken
5. James Bond
6. Daniel Craig

[PTAhole]

Richard Lester to Buddhism--5 clicks

[captainofbeef]

Too easy, too easy ;D
1. Richard Lester
2. Jew
3. Monotheistic
4. Hinduism
5. Buddhism

[captainofbeef]

Dream Theater to Ben Franklin. Three clicks.

[PTAhole]

I got it in a different way:

Lester
Audrie Hepburn
Broadway
Chicago (musical)
Richard Gere
Buddhism

[captainofbeef]

Yea, the remarkable thing is that there is usually about 3 or 4 ways to get to the desired article in five or less clicks.

[sacrilegend]

Try:

Dolly Parton

to

Ogden Nash

I did it in six clicks.

[captainofbeef]

Three clicks
1. Dolly Parton
2. Author
3. List of Authors
4. Ogden Nash

Maybe cheating, but...

[sacrilegend]

Ah sis on you! That's not fair! I went the Playboy route... To South Africa, to Doggerel, to Ogden Nash. In SIX. Cheater! Give me an easy one now.

[captainofbeef]

There is the Dream Theater to Ben Franklin one in three clicks right up there.

[sacrilegend]

Okay... Give me a minute or ten. I have a feeling that I'm going to fail for being just a bit too good at the last one.

[sacrilegend]

1) Dream Theater
2) USA
3) US Dollar
4) Benjamin Franklin

HAHHAa I didn't fail.

[sacrilegend]

Blues Brothers to West Africa in two clicks.

[ie]

Yeah, that kind of was cheating there, Captain.

edit: Specifically finding articles with lists of authors or musicians or genres is what I would consider cheating.

Dream Theater to USA to US Dollar would be fine, though, I think, because there isn't going to be a big long list of people or whatever to choose from.




The Blues Brothers
1. Jazz
2. West Africa



Here's mine:

Tomorrow Never Knows
1.
2.
3.
4.
5. Kes

[captainofbeef]

What you consider cheating is not what I consider cheating. Any pages are available for use. By the way, yours is giving me a hernia. I'm so close, yet so far.

[ie]

Well, I guess it's cheating by my standards, and by how I played this game with a friend of mine. Besides, it doesn't look jawesome at all.

In other words, I just don't like links like this, because it doesn't look impressive.


Hint:

SPOILER: Click to show

You're looking for a famous Bathonian.

What do you have so far?


Per a friend's request:

Vovinam
1. Bo (weapon) ((linked as Con))
2. Batman
3. Batman & Robin (the movie)
4. Kevin Smith

edit: I expressed some concern that this list did not look jawesome, but he didn't seem to mind. My friend wasn't amazed, though, because he knew I'd be able to do it. ;D ;D

I guess I'm doing this as a living now...

[ie]

Wow, I accidentally played this game for real.


Cat Soup to Alive in Joburg, through Peter Jackson.

[sacrilegend]

I LIVE in Johannesburg, my friend. That's cool. (I'm working on your thingy right now...)

edit: Nope, I give up for now. I only have a little time on the internet and I have to look for a monologue for my Drama practical exam in March. Help?