"Sri Lanka" to "Frankfurt"
Time: 14.188 Seconds
Number of links visited: 2
The path you took: [ "Sri Lanka", "Financial centre", "Frankfurt" ]
Wikipedia Speedruns
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#92An enjoyable waste of 45 minutes. A+
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#93The tutorial says to swipe at the bottom of the screen and it does nothing. At “best” it scrolls if I happen to swipe where it hasn’t prevented scrolling. I didn’t click any links, a tutorial which advises me to take ineffectual action isn’t something I want to spend my time on.
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#94This is a really amazing game.
"Architecture" to "1936 Summer Olympics" Time: 123.123 Seconds
Number of links visited: 9
[ "Architecture", "History of Europe", "Ancient Greece", "Athens", "1896 Summer Olympics", "1900 Summer Olympics", "1904 Summer Olympics", "Olympic Games", "1948 Summer Olympics", "1936 Summer Olympics" ]
Im telling all my friends about this one!
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#95I think this would have been a lot harder for the non hacker news crowd:
"Germans" to "Request for Comments" Time: 63.447 Seconds
Number of links visited: 3
The path you took: [ "Germans", "United States", "Internet", "Request for Comments" ]
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#96This game is awesome, I really get use my knowledge of the topics.
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#97So 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.
Assuming the finds trigger the scroll updates, one might be able to infer certain large jumps (possibly looping as one often does) to be a search in the page.
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#98Fun! I got lucky: — "Federal Information Processing Standards" to "Cuba" Time: 38.630 Seconds Number of links visited: 2 The path you took: [ "Federal Information Processing Standards", "List of FIPS country codes", "Cuba" ] — Immediately searched by the string “countr” on the first page.
So you cheated. You are not allowed to use the browser find tool.
If you're not cheating, you're not trying.
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#99Here's another Wikipedia-related game: https://www.redactle.com/# You have to guess what the title of the page is, with most of the words redacted. They are filled in as you guess.
See also https://redactle-unlimited.com/ if game-play feels too restrictive. For those not familiar, the original Redactle author went MIA for several months (TLS certificate expired, no contacts), and in the interim many people shifted to Redactle Unlimited, at least judging by the Reddit group. Redactle.com seems to have finally come back, and I still prefer it over Redactle Unlimited, but I figured it's worth mentioning. The latter makes it easier to count letters, and automatically fills in plurals and related forms--it can be infuriating when you realize you forgot the plural of a word you tried 200 words ago, and then proceed to immediately solve it. (For me most games are between 50-150 words.)
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
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: uggcf://ra.jvxvcrqvn.bet/jvxv/Nhfgenyvn 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.
So it is possible, just very very challenging. I haven’t plugged it into a translator and it’s been a while since I deciphered ROT13 by hand, but looking at that first one I’m guessing that’s Australia itself just based on the pattern?
Country pages tend to have a lot of links to a lot of different topics. So if it’s on that page, that’s like trying to find a needle in a haystack, and it may not even be obviously labeled to begin with since link text can be anything on a MediaWiki.
If anyone wants to make a go at this and post their time and link count here, I may have some free time this weekend to try and challenge it. None this evening I’m afraid.