Wikipedia bridge of links game
 

I had a thought for a game using wikipedia. You start at a given page and by clicking on links in the page you try to navigate to a completely unrelated page. You must stay in wikipedia, you can't type, or select and search, or cut and paste. You can only use hyperlinks to another wikipedia page.

Open the links in new tabs and make a screen shot of your tabs. Whoever has the fewest tabs to get to the destination page wins. You cannot go backwards.

First pair: Start at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle
and try to get to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsidian

Might be fun.

Wow, that was easier than I thought. I got there in 4 clicks. Will post my screenshot later.

So this is more of a spectator game? :lol:

4 clicks
Fossil (located in the 5th paragraph of the Spiritualism section of Doyle's entry.)
Rock
Volcanic Rock
Obsidian

No, you should try it and see how many clicks it takes you. Then see how many clicks to get from Obsidian to Lux Interior. (7 for me)

OK, but now everyone knows. Mine was: Edinburgh, Basalt, Volcanic Rock, Obsidian. Maybe there should be a time frame or first come first served. See if you can get to Lux Interior from Obsidian.

Surely the objective has to be Mornington Crescent?

I guess I didn't understand. I'm still not sure I do.

So the first person to get there gets to choose the next destination? Or do we have a list of pit stops to make along the way to a final destination?

I think the person who uses the fewest clicks to get there gets to choose the next destination, it should be like a rally in that distance traveled counts. I was just doing a trial run to see how it works.

Why don't you choose a new start and first destination?

That could only happen in Britain.

OK. Starting point:

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

first destination

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

It's harder than I thought. No going backwards? I'm stuck in a loop of languages. Trying to find Esperanto. Once, I accidentally translated the page I was on into Esperanto, but that didn't help.

It's harder when you don't know a lot about the destination. I know esperanto is an invented language, but not much else about it.

I'll give it a try.

When you say "You cannot go backwards," does that mean you can't back up if you hit a dead end? Or you can't try to work backwards to the start from the destination?

Babbitt>United States>Invasion of Poland>Second Polish Republic>Bialystock>Esperanto.

I had to lookup the name of the inventor, I used to know it, but forgot. True.

I was thinking you couldn't go back to a previous page. I think maybe you should be able to work from both directions, but if you didn't then you'd likely end up with dozens of links, The Scenic Route.

I have like 30 tabs open and didn't make a link, but going backwards from Esperanto, I just realized I could have done:

Babbitt
Untied States
Official Language
International auxiliary language
Esperanto

That was painful.

We could try Monster's idea and make all the destinations Morningside Crescent. The winner would get to choose the new embarkation point.

If it caught on, we would all become experts in the links that point to Morningside Crescent.

FSM forbid someone gets virtual mornington crescent as a homework assignment

So the new start point is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stephen_Hogg, and we'll try morningside crescent as the destination. This shouldn't be hard at all.

6!!!! I so rock.

don't highlight if you don't want to know. And yes, very unfair advantage to Brits.


monopoly
monopoly game
Angel islington
London Borough of Islington
Northern Line
Mornington Cresent

6 also.
Printer's Devil
William Caxton
Westminster
London
London Underground
Mornington Crescent

excellent. I wonder if fewer is possible?

...and clearly your game is better than Bacon.

Got it down to 5!
New York
New York City Subway
List of Metro Systems
London Underground
Mornington Crescent