The Wiki Game

dave shared a link said Tue, Aug 25th 2020 at 11:10am ET

I 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:

https://www.thewikigame.com

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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dave said Tue, Aug 25th 2020 at 11:13am ET:

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

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ChadP said Tue, Aug 25th 2020 at 12:50pm ET:

This feels impossible.

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- @ChadP Well shit. I did it.
  WIN #1
  Ten Commandments → Tablets of Stone → Tablet (religious) → Mount Sinai → Granite → Potassium-40 → Potassium → Periodic table
  
  ChadP said Tue, Aug 25th 2020 at 12:53pm ET
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- @ChadP Ha, here’s what I did:
  Ten Commandments → Tablets of Stone → Sapphire → Iron → Periodic Table
  
  dave said Tue, Aug 25th 2020 at 1:16pm ET
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dave said Tue, Aug 25th 2020 at 12:56pm ET:

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

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- @dave Ship → Rail transport → Refrigerator car → Stock car (rail) → Cattle
  
  ChadP said Tue, Aug 25th 2020 at 1:02pm ET
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dave said Tue, Aug 25th 2020 at 1:14pm ET:

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

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dave said Tue, Aug 25th 2020 at 6:18pm ET:
It seems this appeals to something specifically about me more than most but I’m still enjoying it.

Pretty happy with this one:
- Western Hemisphere → Morocco →Casablanca → Casablanca (film) →Warner Bros.
And a few more:
- Chemical compound → Salt (chemistry) → Sodium chloride →Salt → Western pattern diet → High-density lipoprotein → Cholesterol
- Blog →Memetracker → Meme → Internet meme → Cliché → Folklore
- Torture → Tower of London → House of York → Yorkshire
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mike808 said Tue, Aug 25th 2020 at 6:56pm ET:

WIN #1
Crying → Nonverbal communication → Phonation → Vocal tract → Speech organ → Speech

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riskybryzness said Tue, Aug 25th 2020 at 7:34pm ET:

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

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eonfifty said Tue, Aug 25th 2020 at 8:16pm ET:

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

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riskybryzness said Tue, Aug 25th 2020 at 10:14pm ET:

I’m proud of this one:

35 seconds.

Irony → H. G. Wells → The War of the Worlds → Tom Cruise

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ecanada said Wed, Aug 26th 2020 at 12:37am ET:

TheKuze is now #17 for the day.

Thanks for the time sucker.

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CaptAmehrican said Wed, Aug 26th 2020 at 6:42am ET:

what a fun way to waste time

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