Inelegant, but here’s what I came up with:
Visual Basic
Microsoft Windows
Media center
Broadcasting
Advertising
Product placement
Starbucks
Coffeehouse
List of coffeehouse chains
Dunkin’ Donuts
Try this:
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Whoa, that was surprisingly easy!
And since **Just Some Guy’s **got passed up before,
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Kleenex
World War I (aieeeeee, no link to “United States” that I could find!)
Jersey City, N.J.
Names for U.S. citizens
Entertainment in the U.S.
Amusement parks in the U.S.
Amusement parks in Ohio
Cedar Point
Ferris wheel
George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr.
Now go from
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Now,
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That was harder than it should have been. Six clicks:
How about:
…to…
There’s a chain I’d really like to see, but I don’t know if it’s even there. I’ll have to check.
ETA: Nah, not even in reverse. Ah, well.
Here’s how I did it:
Banana
Biological classification
Biological kingdom chart
Chordate
Bird
Charadriiformes
Alcidae
Puffin
Now try:
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from:
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That one was pretty tough, but I got it in five.
[noparse]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth[/noparse]
Betcha didn’t know Shibboleth is also a Hebrew name. I understand that it means “kernel of wheat,” contrary to what the article says.
From:
To:
Adrenaline - Wikipedia (note that “Adrenaline” redirects here)
ETA: For the record, I got it in five clicks.
Not ideal (one extra click):
Private equity real estate
Finance
Behavioral finance
Psychology
Emotion
Noradrenaline
Epinephrine
(The difference between adrenaline and NORadrenaline was a constant source of frustration.)
Let’s try (I’m running short on time at the moment, so I’m afraid I can’t say how easy/hard this’ll be):
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Pretty good. I did: Private_equity_real_estate >> Bank >> United_States >> Drug_policy_of_the_United_States >> Cocaine >> Epinephrine. It turned out that the “adrenaline” clue was an unintentional red herring. (Hard to believe that the “Emotion” article doesn’t have any hyperlinks to “Adrenaline,” but it’s true.)
hrm 6 clicks.
From:
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(My Clicks:6)
Reviving the “things on my desk” method:
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(I did it in 6)
4 clicks woo hoo!
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Now how about
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A long and tortuous path…
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I altered the thread title to make it a bit more descriptive.
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