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Topic: Does anyone remember this Wikipedia game?

Anonymous A started this discussion 1 week ago #127,219

Where you start with a random article and try to find your way to the Adolf Hitler page in under six links? I cannot remember if there was a set number though or if the goal was to reach the Hitler page in as few links as possible.

I’ve been trying to remember the rules for the past few weeks now and I’ve been trying to play with both sets of rules. It’s becoming very difficult to navigate or maybe my knowledge of history is very limited.

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 1 week ago, 50 minutes later[^] [v] #1,375,034

I'm assuming it's a riff on "six degrees of Kevin Bacon."
https://www.sixdegreesofbacon.org/explain/

Oatmeal Fucker !BYUc1TwJMU joined in and replied with this 1 week ago, 7 hours later, 8 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,375,121

Yeah it's 6. Random page and 6 links to Hitler.

Napoleon Chagnon
Catholic Church
World War II
Adolf Hitler

Oatmeal Fucker !BYUc1TwJMU double-posted this 1 week ago, 2 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,375,122

It's a pretty easy game because it's trivial to find a link to an organisation or person who was alive in the period 1939-1945, and thereby the link to World War II, which is almost guaranteed to be present as it was such a seismic event.
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