The Wiki Game
7I don’t think this is brand new, but it’s new to me - you get two Wikipedia subjects and you have to try to find the fastest way to navigate between them:
I’ll be honest, I’ve failed pretty hard at this so far, but it’s actually just fun to see what the winners come up with.
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Ah ha! I just won Breakfast → Saturn:
Breakfast → Italy → Galileo → Saturn
2nd place:
Yorkshire → God’s Own Country → Joseph of Arimathea → Early Christianity
1st place:
Crucifixion → Asphyxia → Exhaust gas → Diesel fuel → Diesel engine
3rd place:
Chuck Schumer → Cycling in New York City → Tricycle → Center of mass → Physics
This feels impossible.
@ChadP Well shit. I did it.
WIN #1
Ten Commandments → Tablets of Stone → Tablet (religious) → Mount Sinai → Granite → Potassium-40 → Potassium → Periodic table
@ChadP Ha, here’s what I did:
Ten Commandments → Tablets of Stone → Sapphire → Iron → Periodic Table
2nd place:
Glucose → Sugar → Napoleonic Wars → Napoleon
1st place:
Ship → Columbian Exchange → Cattle
1st place:
Dinosaur → Triassic–Jurassic extinction event → Jurassic → Jura Mountains → German language → Russia → Joseph Stalin
1st:
Sewage treatment → Urbanization → Public transport → Amtrak
@dave Ship → Rail transport → Refrigerator car → Stock car (rail) → Cattle
This one was a little too easy:
Danish language → Denmark → Nobel Prize in Literature → Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Danish language → Sweden → Alfred Nobel → Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Danish language → Nobel Prize → Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
It seems this appeals to something specifically about me more than most but I’m still enjoying it.
Pretty happy with this one:
And a few more:
WIN #1
Crying → Nonverbal communication → Phonation → Vocal tract → Speech organ → Speech
Tablet computer → The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (fictional) → Douglas Adams → The God Delusion → Bible Belt → Evangelicalism in the United States → Historicity of the Bible → Books of the Bible → Bible
I got one!
YOU WON!!
You’re now 1st with 400pts!
WIN #1
Great Depression → The Grapes of Wrath → Grapes of Wrath → The Grapes of Wrath (film) → Drama (film and television) → Film → Glossary of motion picture terms → B movie
I’m proud of this one:
35 seconds.
Irony → H. G. Wells → The War of the Worlds → Tom Cruise
TheKuze is now #17 for the day.
Thanks for the time sucker.
what a fun way to waste time