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”
i got it in four but im guessing someone can beat that:
clock
train station
transport
bicycle
I got:
Clock
Invention
Invention Timeline
Saftey Bicycle
Bicycle
Clay tablet to Binary:D
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!)
to
to
to
to
Okay, try De Lorean DMC-12 to Futurama.
“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.
De Lorean DMC-12->Back to the Future trilogy->De Lorean time machine->Adult Swim->Futurama
Grover Cleveland to [strike]Tunisian Communist Party[/strike] WSIX-FM. (Changed since the Tunisian Communist Party is a stub.)
Grover Cleveland -> President of the United States -> United States -> Tennessee -> Nashville, Tennessee -> WLAC -> WSIX
Bobby Fischer to Pancake
Bobby Fischer
Renal Failure
Kidney Stone
Chocolate
Chocolate Chip
Pancake
Next: Technology to Cheese
Technology
Food Engineering
Food
Cheese
Kakekotoba -> Tobacco mosaic virus
Wow, I made that last one too easy
Anyway,
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
Cushion
Germany
Communism
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
: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)
My 4 steps
[spoiler]
Colard Mansion
Ovid
Ludus duodecim scriptorum
Backgammon
[/spoiler]
Colard Mansion
Engraving
Art
Video Games
Chess
Backgammon
beat me once again
Next: Rove (TV Series) to James P. Mitchell
It Took Me 8 Steps (Including Original)
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
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.
Mechanical Advantage
Balanced Arm Lamps
Industrial Design
iPod
United States
New England
Connecticut
List of Connecticut Rivers
Quinnipiac River
Next: Senegal to Newgrange (song)
Senegal
Europe
Irish
Clannad
Newgrange (song)
FIRST to Zooplankton (I got 6)
(great pic of team 100 on the FIRST page btw)
FIRST
FLL
Ocean
Plankton
Zooplankton
La-Z-Boy --> Brett Favre
La-Z-Boy
1927 (year La-Z-Boy was started)
Great Mississippi Flood (also in 1927)
Mississippi
Brett Favre
sunglasses --> rotary encoder