During a lull in class, me and some classmates figured out a way to combine our favorite things: wasting time and Wikipedia. We invented a game where you try to find a certain item (for example, pancakes) the fastest, measured in either time or clicks. Here are the rules: You cannot edit any pages You must start from the home page (http://wikipedia.org/) You cannot type anything. Everything must be done via mouse clicks. You cannot use the categories, A-Z listings, etc Here's a sample game, searching for "witchcraft." Wikipedia > English Wikipedia > United States > Massachusetts > Salem > Salem Witch Trials > Witchcraft All in all, it took six clicks. Whoever can beat this, starting from the main page, can post a link for the next item to search for. When posting, post the list of links just as presented above, then the next item in the search. Since this is a geek forum, the next item is geek. - tf (As an ongoing contest, kudos go out to anyone that can successfully navigate to barcode. It seems nigh impossible to find.)
Wikipedia > English Wikipedia > Technology (Portal:Technology) > Nanotechnology > Carbon Nanotube > Lasers (Laser) > Barcode Edit: Damn - was beaten......
Very good connection with Slipknot. But the actual next item is still geek. Find it and post your next item. - tf
Wikipedia > English > Socieology > People > Customary Categories of People > Nerd > Geek I want you to find... The Hives (Band) Edit: Awesome game btw
Wikipedia > English Wikipedia > 2006 Winter Olympics > Sweden at the 2006 Winter Olympics > Sweden > The Hives 5 clicks Fine me a slot machine. - tf
Wikipedia > English Wikipedia > Categories > Games (under Art & Culture) > Gambling > Slotmachine 5 Clicks Find me Leo Laporte
cool... wikipedia> english wikipedia> Hilton> Ladbrokes Plc> gambling> slot machines 5 clicks The next word is the lost city "Atlantis." (the city, not the space shuttle or whatever else is named atlantis... )
wikipedia> english wikipedia> Vancouver > Hollywood> Hollywood related topics (didnt know if this was allowed, but it wasnt a wiki topic or anything, just a page with hollywood stuff on)> stargate > Atlantis (Stargate)> Atlantis The next one is "lighter"
Lighter was hard. There was no link from the smoking page. Wikipedia > English Wikipedia > Genocide > The Holocaust > Cremation > Combustion > Flame > Candle > Match > Lighter 9 clicks. Fine me a hoodie. - tf
Wikipedia.org/English Wikipedia/Derbyshire/Kent/Bluewater shopping centre/hooded tops. 6 clicks. Find me Jeremy Clarkson.
meh, I could just edit the first page I come across to include the target word The Standard>BBC>Top Gear>Jeremy Clarkson 4 clicks! Next is modding.
NASA>BOINC>Distributed computing>Computing>Video game console>Xbox>Case modding Phew. Next is television.
main page>portal:browse>television>cable television>comcast>G4TechTV>leo laporte Not too many clicks! Find me HyperTransport. ch424
Technology > Information Technology > Dell > Intel > AMD > HyperTransport I think I did this right. Next, I want to see PVC
