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]

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

[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]

Originally Posted by whitetiger0990

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]

Originally Posted by whitetiger0990

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]

Originally Posted by whytheheckme

Technology
Food Engineering
Food
Cheese

Wow, I made that last one too easy

Anyway,

Originally Posted by whytheheckme

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]

Originally Posted by NickE

Anyway, next: Cushion to Communism

Cushion
Germany
Communism

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

[NickE]

Originally Posted by whytheheckme

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

[KarenH]

From post #11:

Originally Posted by NickE

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