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Six Degrees Of Wikipedia

Sat Apr 29, 2006 2:34 pm

Ever played the 'Six Degrees Of Seperation' game? If not, then the basic idea is to link two things that you wouldn't think could be connected through 6 or less things.

The object of this game is like the normal 'Six Degrees' game, but this time, you're trying to link 2 Wikipedia Articles together using 6 or less other articles (not that this doesn't include the start and end articles).

(E.g. VHS to Flat panel display would go:

Start: VHS
1: Sony
2: Television
End: Flat panel display

Anyway, lets get started.

Start: Weimar Republic
End: Orientalism

Once you've managed to link the two articles, you can post two new articles that need to be joined.

Anyway, enjoy!

Re: Six Degrees Of Wikipedia

Sat Apr 29, 2006 3:15 pm

Ixistant wrote:Ever played the 'Six Degrees Of Seperation' game? If not, then the basic idea is to link two things that you wouldn't think could be connected through 6 or less things.

The object of this game is like the normal 'Six Degrees' game, but this time, you're trying to link 2 Wikipedia Articles together using 6 or less other articles (not that this doesn't include the start and end articles).

(E.g. VHS to Flat panel display would go:

Start: VHS
1: Sony
2: Television
End: Flat panel display

Anyway, lets get started.

Start: Weimar Republic
End: Orientalism

Once you've managed to link the two articles, you can post two new articles that need to be joined.

Anyway, enjoy!


Start: Weimar Republic
1: Nationalism
2: Asia
End: Orientalism

Looked a lot harder than it was ;) (Edited ;))

Start: Detroit Tigers
End: A* search algorithm

Sat Apr 29, 2006 4:27 pm

Detroit Tigers
1900
1900 in Science
Science
Computational linguistics
Algorithms
Search Algorithm
A* Search Algorithm

Whew, that was hard.

Start: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Destination_3]Final Destination 3[/url]
End: Karl Benz

Sat Apr 29, 2006 5:39 pm

Start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Destination_3
1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death
2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accident
3: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_accident
4: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile
End: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Benz

Yup me again (last one for today hopefully) and I had a quicker method for the other one *school-girl giggle*

Start: Richard Dimbleby
End: Vaccum

Sat Apr 29, 2006 5:52 pm

Start: Richard Dimbleby
1: BBC
2: Television
3: Cathode ray tube
End: Vacuum

Next!

Start: Wii
End: Scrapie

It took me all 6 steps to get here. So, including the start and end page, you would have to go through 8 pages with my method.

Sat Apr 29, 2006 6:14 pm

Start: Wii
Thanksgiving
Tofu
Protein
Prion
End: Scrapie

Now find:

Start: Purple
End: Light Year

Sat Apr 29, 2006 9:03 pm

Been a few hours and nobody posted anything so I guess I'll go again:

Start: Purple
1: Star wars
2: Star wars galaxy
End: Light Year

Oooo got a toughie right here ;)

Start: Neopets
End: Blasphemous

Sat Apr 29, 2006 10:15 pm

Start: Neopets
Ancient Egypt
Pharaoh
Bible
Jesus
End: Blasphemous

Your turn!

Start: Revolution
End: Chewing Gum

Sat Apr 29, 2006 11:01 pm

Wow. It seems that every time I do this, I always end up going through Asia!

Start: Revolution
1: North Korea
2: East Asia
3: Southeast Asia
4: Singapore
5: Law of Singapore
6: Chewing gum ban in Singapore
End: Chewing gum

New one!

Start: Fiji
End: Open source

Sun Apr 30, 2006 2:40 am

Fiji
1970
1970 in science
Nobel Prize
Computing
Accounting software
Open source

Start: Sheila the Kangaroo
End: All India Forward Bloc

Sun Apr 30, 2006 3:51 am

I love doing this. :D

Start: Sheila the Kangaroo
1: Global Grover
2: Indian American
3: India
4: List of political parties in India
End: All India Forward Bloc

Next one:
Start: Dvorak Simplified Keyboard
End: iSight

Sun Apr 30, 2006 4:08 am

Dvorak Simplified Keyboard
Apple
Isight


Next One: Red Fire Ants to Channelrhodopsin

Sun Apr 30, 2006 6:23 am

Interesting how everyone did it different to how I thought. :D

Red imported fire ant
Head (anatomy)
Brain
Cholesterol
Biochemistry
List of biochemistry topics
Ion channel
Channelrhodopsin

Very, very hard.

Start: Gabú Region
End: Reflexive Pronoun

Sun Apr 30, 2006 9:08 am

Start: Gabú Region
1: French Language
2: Romance Languages
3: Lingua Franca Nova
End: Reflexive Pronoun

Ok here we go again :P

Start: Mandarin Duck
End: Real Number

Sun Apr 30, 2006 9:26 am

Start: Mandarin Duck
1. 20th Century
2. Nicolas Bourbaki
3. Algebra
End: Real Numbers

Next One: Xel'Naga to Equity Derivatives

And CWisgood, you did it a different way than how I thought as well :)
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