The Wikipedia path game!

[basicxman]

OK the goal of the game is to get from one page on wikipedia to another in the shortest path possible

*all players must post the path they took and we will check them
*for fun: no using the back button or Ctrl+F
*no inappropriate paths


for the first one start at "clock" and go to "bike" or "bicycle"

[basicxman]

:D i got it in four but im guessing someone can beat that:
clock
train station
transport
bicycle

[Joe G.]

I got:
Clock
Invention
Invention Timeline
Saftey Bicycle
Bicycle

Clay tablet to Binary:D

[Branden Ghena]

Clay Tablet to Binary... Easy

Clay Tablet
Archive
Computer Data Storage
Binary Numeral System (I assume this is what you meant?)

Lets try Ironman to Indiana Jones (Hooray Movies!)

[whitetiger0990]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Man
to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Man_(film)
to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Pictures
to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raiders_of_the_Lost_Ark
to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Jones


Okay, try De Lorean DMC-12 to Futurama.

[lukevanoort]

"Binary" is excessively hard because the page titled "binary" is a disambiguation page, and, in theory, pages should not link to disambiguation pages. I move that disambiguation pages not be allowed as endpoints.

[Billfred]

Okay, try De Lorean DMC-12 to Futurama.De Lorean DMC-12->Back to the Future trilogy->De Lorean time machine->Adult Swim->Futurama

Grover Cleveland to Tunisian Communist Party WSIX-FM. (Changed since the Tunisian Communist Party is a stub.)

[whitetiger0990]

Grover Cleveland -> President of the United States -> United States -> Tennessee -> Nashville, Tennessee -> WLAC -> WSIX

Bobby Fischer to Pancake

[NickE]

Bobby Fischer to Pancake

Bobby Fischer
Renal Failure
Kidney Stone
Chocolate
Chocolate Chip
Pancake

Next: Technology to Cheese

[whytheheckme]

Technology
Food Engineering
Food
Cheese

Kakekotoba -> Tobacco mosaic virus

[NickE]

Technology
Food Engineering
Food
Cheese
Wow, I made that last one too easy

Anyway,
Kakekotoba -> Tobacco mosaic virus

Kakekotoba
Japanese language
Japanese literature
19th Century
Capitalism in the nineteenth century
Capitalism
Market
Service (economics)
Health Care
Illness
Passenger Virus
Virus
Tobacco Mosaic Virus

wow, i'm sure there's a shorter way

Anyway, next: Cushion to Communism

[whytheheckme]

Anyway, next: Cushion to Communism

Cushion
Germany
Communism

All-purpose yardage -> The Odyssey (5 steps including original)

[NickE]

All-purpose yardage -> The Odyssey (5 steps including original)
All-Purpose Yardage
American Football
Team Sport
Sport
Ancient Greece
The Odyssey

6 steps
you beat me by one

Next: Gridiron football to Earl of Halsbury

[whytheheckme]

:mad: My browser crashed.... I had to start over...

Gridiron Football
United Kingdom
Monarchy of the United Kingdom
James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell
Category:Earls in the Peerage of Scotland
Category:British earls
Category:Earls
Category:Earldoms
Earl of Halsbury

Colard Mansion -> Backgammon (4 steps including original)


Colard Mansion
Ovid
Ludus duodecim scriptorum
Backgammon

[NickE]

Colard Mansion -> Backgammon (4 steps including original)
Colard Mansion
Engraving
Art
Video Games
Chess
Backgammon

beat me once again

Next: Rove (TV Series) to James P. Mitchell


Rove (TV Series)
English
United States
Federal Government of the United States
United States Federal Executive Departments
United States Department of Labor
United States Secretary of Labor
James P. Mitchell

[artdutra04]

Rove (TV series) > English Language > United States > List of Presidents of the United States > Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower > James P. Mitchell

Now go from Mechanical Advantage to Quinnipiac River.


P.S. This reminds me of the time I tried to max out Google Maps at driving distance between two cities. I was able to get over 10,300 miles from Nenana, Alaska to Grense-Jakobselv, Norway; the estimated trip time was over a month. Unfortunately, this route is no longer possible, as Google got rid of the "Swim across the Atlanta Ocean" (http://digg.com/tech_news/Google_Suggests_You_Swim_Across_The_Atlantic_Ocean ) joke sometime a few months ago.

[NickE]

Mechanical Advantage
Balanced Arm Lamps
Industrial Design
iPod
United States
New England
Connecticut
List of Connecticut Rivers
Quinnipiac River

Next: Senegal to Newgrange (song)

[Stephi Rae]

Senegal
Europe
Irish
Clannad
Newgrange (song)



FIRST to Zooplankton (I got 6)

(great pic of team 100 on the FIRST page btw)

[Taylor]

FIRST
FLL
Ocean
Plankton
Zooplankton

La-Z-Boy --> Brett Favre

[Ryan Foley]

La-Z-Boy
1927 (year La-Z-Boy was started)
Great Mississippi Flood (also in 1927)
Mississippi
Brett Favre

sunglasses --> rotary encoder

[KarenH]

From post #11:
Kakekotoba
Japanese language
Japanese literature
19th Century
Capitalism in the nineteenth century
Capitalism
Market
Service (economics)
Health Care
Illness
Passenger Virus
Virus
Tobacco Mosaic Virus

wow, i'm sure there's a shorter way
Yes, there is:

Kakekotoba
The Importance of Being Earnest
Victorian era
Crop failures (link opens Phytopathology page)
Plant virus
Tobacco mosaic virus

[whytheheckme]

sunglasses --> rotary encoder

Sunglasses
Digital audio player
Consumer electronics
Category:Industries
Energy industry
Electrical power industry
Electric power transmission
Category:Electrical engineering
Category:Electro mechanical engineering
Rotary encoder

José Luis Alcaine -> Nidhanaya

[Branden Ghena]

Jose Luis Alcaine
Category:Spanish cinematographers
Category:Spanish film actors
Category:Film actors by nationality
Category:Sri Lankan film actors
Gamini Fonseka
Nidhanaya

As a side note, are you allowed to go backwards? That's the only way I got this one. If you aren't allowed to then sorry, I cheated. :ahh:

Dungeons and Dragons to Google (Two of my favorite things) :D

[whytheheckme]

Dungeons and Dragons to Google (Two of my favorite things) :D

Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons (disambiguation)
Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach
IBM PC compatible
Personal computer
World Wide Web
Google Maps
Google

As a side note, are you allowed to go backwards? That's the only way I got this one. If you aren't allowed to then sorry, I cheated.
I don't think this is cheating.... it would be very very difficult if you didn't do this... and the paths would be way longer....

CHP (gene) --> Phil Hawthorne



CHP (gene)
Gene
Infection
University of Sheffield
Field hockey
Rugby football
Category:Rugby football
Category:Rugby league
Category:Rugby league people
Category:Rugby league players
Category:Australian rugby league players
Phil Hawthorne

[Travis Hoffman]

CHP
Gene
Science
England
British Empire
British Army
Rugby Union
Phil Hawthorne

This should be fun..... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports-related_curses#Cleveland_Sports_Curse)

It should take you at least 44 years to find a link har har har.

Cleveland --> Championship

[whytheheckme]

Cleveland --> Championship

Cleveland, Ohio
Columbus, Ohio
Columbus Clippers
Championship

Detroit Steam Motors Corporation --> Serge Vaudenay


Detroit Steam Motors Corporation
Canada
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
Category:Living people
Serge Vaudenay

[Travis Hoffman]

Cleveland, Ohio
Columbus, Ohio
Columbus Clippers
Championship

Detroit Steam Motors Corporation --> Serge Vaudenay


See, you had to go to an entirely different city to find one!

[redtide]

Rove (TV Series)
United Kingdom
United states
United states Cabinet
secratary of labor
James P. Mitchell


FIRST ------> romantic poetry

[Taylor]

FIRST
Woodie Flowers
Cambridge, Mass.
Cambridge, England
England
William Wordsworth
Romantic Poetry

Jacques Cousteau --> Eli Whitney

[lingomaniac88]

Jacques Cousteau
Goggles
Eyes
Cattle (linked from Cow)
Ruminant
Sheep
Wool
Cotton
Eli Whitney

Now, try this:
Richard Stone (composer) --> Steve Jobs

[SL8]

Richard Stone (composer)
U.S
Apple
Steve Jobs

[SL8]

Adolph Hitler-> Dean Kamen

[Schnabel]

Adolph Hitler
Architecture
Engineering
Robot
FIRST Robotics Competition
FIRST
Dean L. Kamen

Computer => Concrete

[Joe Ross]

FIRST
Woodie Flowers
Cambridge, Mass.
Cambridge, England
England
William Wordsworth
Romantic Poetry

FIRST
United Kingdom
William Wordsworth
Romantic poetry

Jacques Cousteau
Goggles
Eyes
Cattle (linked from Cow)
Ruminant
Sheep
Wool
Cotton
Eli Whitney


Jacques-Yves Cousteau
June 25
1798
Eli Whitney



Adolph Hitler
Architecture
Engineering
Robot
FIRST Robotics Competition
FIRST
Dean L. Kamen


Adolf Hitler
April 12
1951
Dean Kamen

[Travis Hoffman]

Concrete
2007
Microsoft
Computer


Jeremy Bentham --> coffin

Limitation - no intermediate references to a certain ABC television series permitted in the solution. ;)

[AustinSchuh]

Jeremy Bentham
will
death
burial
coffin

coffin -> Slashdot