I find it much more interesting to play by fewest links clicked. Having a timer running is too much pressure.
Agreed - feels like fewest links requires more thought and less manic clicking.
Wikipedia Speedruns
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#72"Chromosome" to "BBC One" Time: 78.910 Seconds Number of links visited: 10 The path you took: [ "Chromosome", "DNA", "Life", "Animal", "Systema Naturae", "Carl Linnaeus", "Chelsea Physic Garden", "Chelsea, London", "United Kingdom", "BBC", "BBC One" ] This is pretty sick.
Damn. So I just lost one. I needed to go from 700 to “Australasian Virtual Herbarium”. Getting from 700 to South Australia or Adelaide is no big deal. The problem is trying to find a single Wikipedia page that actually links to the Wikipedia page for the Australasian Virtual Herbarium rather than to their website (or just referencing it without any link text). I suppose I could go in somewhere and add it myself, but…
I used "What Links Here" to find this (just to confirm that it can be done, not that I could find it myself). ROT13:
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uggcf://ra.jvxvcrqvn.bet/jvxv/Pnaoreen
uggcf://ra.jvxvcrqvn.bet/jvxv/Nhfgenyvna_Angvbany_Obgnavp_Tneqraf
uggcf://ra.jvxvcrqvn.bet/jvxv/Nhfgenynfvna_Iveghny_Ureonevhz
I would probably not have been able to find this without using the reverse link feature.
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#73So apparently it tracks pressing "CTRL+F", but it you select "find in page" from the menu in your browser that's fine. I guess there's no way for a website to track that anyway.
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#74This is fun, we used to do something like this in high school called Five Clicks to Jesus, which is exactly what it sounds like. I find this particular version a bit tedious because you aren't allowed to Find on a page. What good is having a timer if I can't go fast? Why punish me twice for reaching a dead end page by making me read the entire thing to discover that I need to go back?
I think it's an interesting restriction. The one thing I object to is not having sources and especially "See also". Most of the time I can get things within 10 clicks even with the restrictions.
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#76"Impersonal verb" to "September 11 attacks"
Time: 101.131 Seconds
Number of links visited: 5
The path you took: [ "Impersonal verb", "English language", "United States", "List of states and territories of the United States", "New York City", "September 11 attacks" ]
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#77Not being able to search the page you're on kind of takes away from the fun.
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#78Twitter to Gambia... That was way more fun than I thought it would be...
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
More info on this? Unless I'm misunderstanding something, in my own test, this isn't true. You can hit loops, e.g. the page for Russia goes to Eastern Europe which goes back to Russia.
Wikipedia, unsurprisingly, has a page on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosoph...
Which, ironically, doesn't work for that page. You end up in a loop rather than getting to philosophy.
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#80Well, that was fun, but the inability to go back without completely restarting was a little frustrating.
Particularly on mobile, where lots of small links next to each other is a minefield. I went to click the winning link one match only to click the line below, causing me to quit playing.