Wiki Wars

[MrRubix]

You have a start point and end point. You need to try to get from start to end using ONLY links within the Wiki pages. Person with the fewest steps wins!

For example:

Start: Bicycle
End: Utopia

Links: Bicycle, China, Civilization, Barbarian, Utopia

5 steps



First round:
Start: Decapitation
End: Sugar

Second round:
Start: Plankton
End: Cloud Strife

Third round:
Start: Megaminx
End: Feces

Fourth round:
Start: Iced tea
End: Kazaam

Fifth round:
Start: Pizza Hut
End: Parallel Port

Sixth Round:
Start: Nokia
End: Paprika

Seventh Round:
Start: Cocaine
End: Gujarati

Eight Round:
Start: Red Robin
End: Iron Chef

Ninth Round:
Start: Calcium
End: Interest rate swap

Tenth Round:
Start: Vespinae
End: Minute Waltz

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page go for it!

PS: No editing of wiki pages allowed

[Tokzic]

Start: Decapitation
End: Sugar
Links: Decapitation, Head, Taste, Sweetness, Sugar

5 Steps

wow a game thread that's actually not stupid

[MrRubix]

Wow very good

Start: Plankton
End: Cloud Strife

[Tokzic]

Start: Plankton
End: Cloud Strife
Links: Plankton, Nintendo DS, List of Best-Selling Video Games, Final Fantasy VII, Cloud Strife

Five steps.

[Tokzic]

okay i'm going to give someone else a chance now

[Masterofpirates]

Iced tea - United States - Basketball - Michael Jordan - Shaquille O'Neal - Kazaam

6

[Masterofpirates]

Megaminx - Rubik's Cube - Saturday Morning Cartoon - List of animated telivision series - Anime - Hentai - Coprophilia - Category:Feces - Feces

No luck here, 9 clicks

[bluguerrilla]

Pizza Hut - Formula One - Electronics - Computer Engineering - Personal Computer - Parallel Port

Oh, 5 steps. I interpreted steps wrong.

[GuidoHunter]

There should really be a required "by way of" in the middle of most of these chains. Six degrees of Wikipedia Separation is a fantastic game, though.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[gabgabo]

Sixth Round:
Start: Nokia
End: Paprika

Nokia->Finland->Spice->Paprika

4 Steps, that's pretty good.

[devonin]

Since Rubix seems to count your starting page as a step, such that A->B->C counts as "3" steps (I'd say 2, but I'll use his system) I have the following results:

First round:
Start: Decapitation
End: Sugar
Total Steps: 4

Second round:
Start: Plankton
End: Cloud Strife
Total Steps: 6

Third round:
Start: Megaminx
End: Feces
Total Steps: 5

Fourth round:
Start: Iced tea
End: Kazaam
Total Steps: 7

Fifth round:
Start: Pizza Hut
End: Parallel Port
Total Steps: 5

Sixth Round:
Start: Nokia
End: Paprika
Total Steps: 3!

Seventh Round:
Start: Cocaine
End: Gujarati
Total Steps: 5

Eight Round:
Start: Red Robin
End: Iron Chef
Total Steps: 5

Ninth Round:
Start: Calcium
End: Interest rate swap
Total Steps: 8 (Ugh)

Tenth Round:
Start: Vespinae
End: Minute Waltz
Total Steps: 6

I don't want to post them all because I'd spoil it for other people.

[devonin]

Originally Posted by travman301

The Kazaam one is 6 not 7.

Um...you don't know what my chain is, so how can you say that? I never said I had the -best- chains, just "here are what I got"

[travman301]

Originally Posted by devonin

Um...you don't know what my chain is, so how can you say that? I never said I had the -best- chains, just "here are what I got"

My bad. I thought you were posting the "High scores".

[devonin]

Nope, just the "My Scores"

[gabgabo]

Originally Posted by devonin

Nope, just the "My Scores"

Then I got to say your scores are pretty high. Also, what was your chain to get to Paprika from Nokia. I got 4 and I thought this was the best possible score.

[devonin]

Nokia->Hungary->Paprika

Hungary was also listed on Nokia's page, and it is one of the world's larger sources of Paprika, so I could cut out the extra link to "spices"

[gabgabo]

Originally Posted by devonin

Nokia->Hungary->Paprika

Hungary was also listed on Nokia's page, and it is one of the world's larger sources of Paprika, so I could cut out the extra link to "spices"

Pretty cool, we can't get 2 links though.

[devonin]

Well this thread died...

[gabgabo]

Yes but it's not a game that could actually go on by itself. We need someone to make some starting/ending points. So let's just let it die.