6 degrees of wikipedia

[Hans Sprungfeld]

here's a game i thought of today.

everybody starts on the same wikipedia page:

Pepperidge Farms

now you just click on any hyperlink that strikes your fancy. and you do that 6 times. then you post where you ended up. here's where i landed:

Muslim

i could read possible facts on that website all day.

 

[TXSNOS]

Sorry, I only clicked once, but I couldn't get past these. Emmm . . .

 

[dang-str8]

Sweet game... it took me 6 moves to get to UT

Pepperidge_Farms

Campbell_Soup_Company
Exposition_Universelle_(1900)
1900
U.S.
Texas
University_of_Texas

 

[TXSNOS]

So I finally made it past the cookies, and after

Margaret Rudkin
1890s
mauve
Persimmon
Shades of orange

I ended up at Burnt Orange

 

[MilkmanDan]

I somehow ended up here.

 

[TheGallopinGoose]

Pepperidge Farms
Goldfish (snack)
Trans fat
Melting point
State of matter
Ferromagnetism
Magnet

 

[LITNIN HORN]

Pepperidge Farm
Canadian White
Flour
Barley
Beer
Guinness World Record
Maurizio Giuliano

 

[HornsHornsHorns]

Clicking pretty much at random, I ended up on nuclear freeze.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

i think dang str8 adapted the game quite well. that's what it should be.

so the game is now getting to the university of texas in the fewest moves from set articles.

to make it interesting, no going back. you just have to follow your hunch and try to get there without backtracking. i'll try.

starting at girl talk

pennsylvania
list of us states by area
texas
university of texas

i don't know. maybe the hyper hyperlinking makes it too easy. but maybe that makes it a worthwhile challenge.

 

[HornGrandioso]

Pepperidge Farms
Margaret Rudkin
World War II
First Battle of El Alamein
10th Indian Infantry Division
Iraq
--->
Dalli Hadad (Arabic: دالّي حداد‎ also spelled Dally, Daly, Dali; born February 5, 1982 in Baghdad, Iraq), is an Iraqi singer who established her name when she sang the official Iraqi football song, when winning the 2007 AFC Asian Cup.

 

[Third Coast]

Pepperidge Farm
Preservative
Methylchloroisothiazolinone
Yeast
History of beer
Gambrinus (patron saint of beer)

 

[IsThatATitleist?]

The Link

 

[jadedscenester]

pepperidge farms
preservative
fungi
meiosis
sexual reproduction
vagina

 

[jmatt]

I just randomly clicked on a link on each page instead of something that caught my fancy...

Pepperidge Farms of course.

Then the six:

Margaret Rudkin
Black Tupelo
Bung
Laboratory glassware
Electromagnetic spectrum
Radioactive decay

 

[capnamerca]

heh heh .. bung.

 

[9bones]

heh, heh... heh, heh... bung

 

[That's Right]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_occupation_of_Indonesia

 

[wolfman]

Pepperidge_Farms
Dark Chocolate
chocolate liquor
cocoa butter
pharmaceuticals
hallucinogens
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
LSD

 

[ed teach]

Pepperidge_Farms
Campbell_Soup_Company
Andy Warhol
The_Velvet_Underground
University_of_Texas_at_Austin

 

[PunkRockinHorn]

Pepperidge
Norwalk
state fairs
state fair of Texas
Red River Shootout
Rose Bowl
Vince Young

 

[whickums]

Milano
Milk Chocolate
White Chocolate
Hydrogenated
Fatty Acid
oleochemical


boring. (done at random)

 

[chiwanna]

I don't think that I'm doing this right...

Pepperidge Farm to
Canadian White to
Pepperidge Farm to
Canadian White to
Pepperidge Farm to
Canadian White to

 

[darius]

Pepperidge Farm
cookies
nut
pecan
Texas
University of Texas

 

[CottonEyedHorn]

Pepperidge Farm
Bread
Mold
Mycelium
Petroleum
Canada

 

[HistoryHorn]

Pepperidge Farm
Canadian White
Bread
Staple Food
Malnutrition
Lesser Developed Countries
Thailand

 

[MGS]

Pepperidge Farms
1961
1958
Kevin Bacon (under 1958 births)

I win!

 

[Statalyzer]

Pepperidge Farm (not Pepperidge Farms)
1. Preservative
2. Insect
3. Navigation
4. Sydney, Australia
5. Multiculturalism
6. Pol Pot
The Link

 

[Play Misti]

Pepperidge Farms
Margaret Rudkin
New York
Gateway of Immigration
Lucky Luciano
Vincent "The Chin" Gigante

 

[netslave]

Pepperidge_Farms
Fairfield,_Connecticut
Who's_the_Boss
United_Kingdom
Slave_Trade_Act_1807
United_States
Republic_of_Texas

 

[GHoward]

Some of my students used to play a game similar to this. Someone would pick a wiki article, someone else would pick another, then everyone would race to go from one to the other. It was actually pretty fun.