The wikipedia game

[ryanharris]

Has any one every played this before?

Basically someone picks a random word, then you go to wikipedia and press random article and from there you have to find your way to the random word that was picked earlier using only links on the page your currently on.

So to start off...(looks at textbook on desk)... Environmental science!

I'll run through my first attempt

Clicked random article: Dutching
1. Dutch Book
2. Coherence
3. Mutually exclusive events
4. Qualitatitve data
5. Scientific research
6. Natural science
7. Earth science
8. Environmental Science

So it took me 8 steps, anyone think they can beat me

Tomorrow i wil annouce the winner and they can pick a new word, NOW GO!

[Medea]

1. John Orsi
2. American Football
3. Health issues in American football
4. Education
5. Natural Science
6. Environmental Science

Done in six.

Now find
Bead

[ryanharris]

Hey your really good at this. i was going to announce the winner tomorrow and a new word tomorrow, so others
can have a chance to beat your score, you never know someone might beat 6

[Medea]

oh ok, sorry, I thought it was like you did one then set the next word. Soz.

[ryanharris]

medea wins new word bead. oh and from now on just play the way medea did and suggest a new word everytime.

[ryanharris]

1. Nova scotia
2. small buisness
3. tradesman
4. jewellery
5. trade beads
6.bead

new article: my name is earl (lovin that show at the moment)

[Medea]

1. International Cataloguing Standards Committee
2. United States
3. Television in the United States
4. NBC
5. My Name Is Earl

find: Chichester Cathedral

[ryanharris]

Random article - 1. WYCL
2. talk radio
3. televison
4. televison genres
5. science fiction on televison
6. list of science fiction films
7. " " of the 1960's
8. 2001: a space odyssey

dont know if you were talking about the book or the film, but if it was the book add one extra step

Find: Scrubs (yeah, i love american sitcoms)

[Kevin Hodge]

good game btw ryan

ps - i have the most thumbs up comment on a tali video on youtube :L

[ryanharris]

Hi, thanks Seth, but it aint actually my game i nicked it of another forum i lurk shh

It looks like were on page 2 so i'll post the word to find again

Find: Scrubs

[Medea]

Can't sleep so here it is:

1. 3CS
2. Classic hits
3. New York City
4. NBC
5. List of programs previously broadcast by NBC
6. Scrubs

Find: Mr Men

[ryanharris]

1. Amalia assur
2. dentist
3. united states
4. american lit
5. history of modern lit
6. childrens lit
7. list of childrens lit authors
8. Mr Men

Find: Blackadder

[Winnie57]

1. Calcinus
2. Hermit crabs
3. Yorkshire
4. Richard III of England
5. Edmund (the titular Blackadder)
6. Blackadder

Find: Tower of London

[ßazza]

That was fun.

1. The Tolerance Foundation
2. United Nations
3. United Kingdom
4. London
5. Tower of London

Find: Mars

[Dan B]

1. Maria Konopnicka Special Education School Complex (Pabianice, Poland)
2. Poland
3. Continental collision
4. Earth
5. Mars

Find: Super Mario Bros.

[ßazza]

^I play runescape btw. I am working on finding that now.

-

Weird I had to do poland too.

1. Pogony
2. Poland
3. Microsoft
4. Nintendo
5. Super Mario Bros.

Find: Rainbow

[ßazza]

Im not impressed by my success this time. I did manage find it sooner but it had no link.

1. Fluor Field at the West End
2. Greenville, South Carolina
3. United States
4. Personal computer
5. PC game
6. Massively multiplayer online role-playing game
7. RuneScape

Find: Rainbow

[Dan B]

1. Leonard Firestone
2. Rancho Mirage, California
3. Same-sex marriage
4. Homosexuality
5. Gay pride
6. Rainbow flag
7. Rainbow

Find: Pot Noodle

[ßazza]

1. Kwanzaa
2. Maize
3. Rice
4. Noodle
5. Instant noodle
6. Pot noodle

Find: Piracy

[Winnie57]

1. 2005 World Championships in Athletics - men's discus throw
2. South Africa
3. Crime in South Africa
4. Robbery
5. Piracy
(are you allowed to use the see also at the end?

Find: Woody Allen

[Ubyse]

Didnt look hard enough obviously! woops

[Ryjo]

1. Lorentzos Mavilis
2. Corfu
3. Greece
4. Latin
5. United States
6. New York City
7. List of people from New York City
8. Woody Allen

Find: Edgar Allan Poe

[Ryjo]

1. Great dodecahemicosahedron
2. Star polyhedron
3. Pope
4. Minor exorcism in Christianity
5. Exorcism in Christianity
6. Exorcism

Find: Hoover Dam

[Ryjo]

1. Vitaliy Kosovskyi
2. Soviet Union
3. Eurasia
4. Asia
5. Mongol Empire
6. Genghis Khan

Find: Malcolm McDowell

[Florawr]

(Looking for Edgar Allan Poe, because it's the easier one )

1. Wessbecher Glacier
2. United States Geological Survey
3. United States
4. Edgar Allan Poe

Find: Santa Claus

[Ryjo]

1. Johannes Klingenberg Sejersted
2. Norway
3. Arctic
4. North Pole
5. Santa's workshop
6. Santa Claus

Find: Andy Warhol

[umm]

1) C13H20N2O2 (it's a chemicla formula used in cough suppressants, for those that didn't know)
2) Procaine (ah! an escape route!)
3) cocaine (this is gonna be easy)
4) United States
5) New York City
6) Art Museum
7) List of contemprary artists
8) Andy Warhol, there he is!

Okay, find: "She's Got to Be a Saint", a 1972 single by Ray Price

[Ryjo]

There doesn't seem to be a wikipedia page for She's Got to Be a Saint; the closest I could get to it was 'Ray Price discography'.

1. Kim Källström
2. Association football
3. CONCACAF
4.North America
5. United States
6. Music of the United States
7. Country music
8. Ray Price
9. Ray Price discography

Find: Hawaii

[Apathy]

1. United States of America
2. Polynesia
3. Pacific ocean
4. Archipelago
5. Volcano

Find: Johnny Cash

[Ryjo]

1. Polynesia Cup (Bloody football again!)

2. Polynesia

3. Polynesian navigation

4. Celestial sphere

5. Astronomy

6. Big Bang

7. Big Crunch

Find: Riboflavin