phungi
January 26, 2009, 3:59pm
1
A colleague of mine pointed out that you can get to Michael Jordan from any page on Wikipedia in 6 clicks, assuming that page has links. The 6 clicks do not count “internal” page clicks in Wiki that take you from the table of contents down.
One must find their own way. I tried “Kama sutra ”:
University of Chicago
NCAA
NBA
Michael Jordan
Then I tried “Frank Sinatra ”:
Los Angeles
NBA
Michael Jordan
This may be a repetition of the “6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon” game in which nearly everything routes through either “A Few Good Men” and “JFK” (e.g., a city that has a basketball team or a University), but I got a kick out of it.
So, post your challenges…
Cisco
January 26, 2009, 4:18pm
2
I got close, but couldn’t do it.
Accretion disc
Nikolai Shakura
Lomonosov Moscow State University
University
List of universities and colleges by country
List of colleges and universities in North Carolina
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Michael Jordan
I searched for “NBA” on the NCAA page and it didn’t come up. It must’ve been edited since you did yours.
Cisco:
I got close, but couldn’t do it.
Accretion disc
Nikolai Shakura
Lomonosov Moscow State University
University
List of universities and colleges by country
List of colleges and universities in North Carolina
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Michael Jordan
I searched for “NBA” on the NCAA page and it didn’t come up. It must’ve been edited since you did yours.
I think I got it in six clicks:
Accretion disk
CLICK 1
black holes
CLICK 2
Stephen Hawking
CLICK 3
The Simpsons
CLICK 4
List of Guest Stars on The Simpsons
CLICK 5
Magic Johnson
CLICK 6
Michael Jordan
Cisco
January 26, 2009, 5:03pm
4
Ok, I misunderstood where the first click is counted.
Mantis Shimp
United States
Basketball
Michael Jordan
This is almost too easy. Wikipedia hyperlinks too many terms for this game.
(Can’t do links from work):
Arminianism
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Barton College
North Carolina
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Michael Jordan
ETA: the United States -> Basketball -> Michael Jordan linkage is going to make it hard to get a good long chain going.
Octave Chanute
Wright Brothers
Kitty Hawk
North Carolina
UNC Chapel Hill
Michael Jordan!
Adolf Hitler
United States
Basketball
Michael Jordan
We need something a bit more obscure. Anyone for Six Wiki Degrees of Simeon Stylites?
Cisco
January 27, 2009, 4:14pm
9
Seasick Steve
Music Genre
Gospel
Christianity
Saint
List of Saints
Simeon Stylites
MAD Magazine was really ahead of their time with their “6 Degrees of Separation between Anyone and Anything” article when I was a kid.
Lepton
Standard Model
Science
Poetry
Lyrics
Record Label
List of Record Labels
List of Record Labels (A-H)
Epic Records
Modest Mouse
Seasick Steve.
10 degrees. Anyone want to try and improve on that?
Not sure if you’re playing the same game the OP is suggesting but…
Lepton
Carl D. Anderson
New York
NBA
Michael Jordon
4 clicks
MUSCOIDEA
Superfamily_(biology)
Human
Sport [[an amazingly short article]]
Regulation_of_Sport
Broadcasting_of_sports_events
Madison_Square_Garden
Michael Jordon
7 clicks, although the end game there could probably be cleaned up
Sexually transmitted disease
Public health
Sara Josephine Baker
U.S.
Washington, D.C.
Washington Wizards
Michael Jordan!
I always played this with two random non-stub, non-disambiguation articles, which is significantly harder.
hajario
January 27, 2009, 6:22pm
14
I’ve seen this game with Hitler. You can get to anyone famous from any page in six clicks. It doesn’t have to be MJ. It can be anyone.
BTW, the best way to play is to use the Wiki random page function and go from that page to your target.
Cisco
January 27, 2009, 7:14pm
15
Barney and Friends
Texas
Southwestern United States
Arizona
Bill Hicks
Preacher
Garth Ennis
Barney to Garth Ennis in 6 clicks: proof that this game is way too easy.
phungi
January 27, 2009, 8:47pm
16
perhaps this is too easy…
I tried clicking random link and got this:
Malibeyli (Azerbaijani: Malıbəyli) or Ajapnyak (Armenian: Աջափնյակ) is a village de facto part of Stepanakert city in the breakaway Republic of Artsakh, de jure in the Shusha District of Azerbaijan.
This Artsakh location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. This Shusha Rayon location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
then clicked random link again, and got this:
Sellafield, formerly known as Windscale, is a large multi-function nuclear site close to Seascale on the coast of Cumbria, England. As of August 2022, primary activities are nuclear waste processing and storage and nuclear decommissioning. Former activities included nuclear power generation from 1956 to 2003, and nuclear fuel reprocessing from 1952 to 2022.
The licensed site covers an area of 265 hectares (650 acres), and comprises more than 200 nuclear facilities and more than 1,000 building...
so, the goal is Malibeyli to Sellafield:
Azerbaijan - Wikipedia
United Nations - Wikipedia
United Kingdom - Wikipedia
England - Wikipedia
Irish Sea - Wikipedia
Sellafield - Wikipedia
6 degrees…
I’m trying to figure out which links you guys are clicking on. Are they the random reference links scattered throughout the main information page, or are they the links at the bottom of the wiki page?
I tried “Tibet” and got nowhere.
FoieGrasIsEvil:
I’m trying to figure out which links you guys are clicking on. Are they the random reference links scattered throughout the main information page, or are they the links at the bottom of the wiki page?
I tried “Tibet” and got nowhere.
I was using the reference links scattered throughout the article. That should keep it within Wiki.
Gisela (singer)
Autonomous University of Barcelona
Public university
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Michael Jordan
I clicked on the Random Article line in the upper left box of the Wiki homepage. It gave me Stanislawa Zawadzha (1890-1988), a noted Polish soprano who I’d never heard of before. From there:
Poland
Polonia
United States
Basketball
Michael Jordan
Pretty easy once you’ve got a country’s name, which will appear in most articles.