The Wikipedia Game!

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I made this game up in my head a few minutes ago, and it turned out to be pretty fun.

Basically, you start with the name of a Wikipedia article. For demonstrative purposes, let's go with John Stienbeck's novel; Tortilla Flat. Now, the players have to try to get to the target article, let's say, Pokemon. The catch is that you have to move by only using links on the page you're on to reach your destination. Whoever gets from the starting article to the target article with the fewest moves wins.

Here's mine, see if you guys can beat it:

Tortilla Flat > Great Depression > Franklin D. Roosevelt > Georgia > Florida > Walt Disney World Resort > Walt Disney > Mickey Mouse > Nintendo GameCube > Published_By_Nintendo > Pokemon Box > Pokemon


That's 11 moves. I'll make a new Start and Target every day or two.

Start is the article I linked to, Target is Pokemon

Topic Leaderboard: Tortilla Flat to Pokemon
Winner:
1. xdogking - 3

Topic Leaderboard: Spoon to Hexadecimal
1. xdogking, Guy89 - 2

Alpha to Osmosis!
 
Juliacoolo is describing a game that I had in my head for MONTHS and actually brought to fruition on Don't advertise other forums..

Tortilla Flat --> Ecological (redirects to Ecology) --> Species --> Evolution --> Evolution (disambiguation) --> Pokémon evolution (redirects to Gameplay of Pokémon) --> Pokémon

That's 6 moves. Beat that.
 
Tortilla Flat > United States > Japan > Anime > Pokemon

4 Moves.

Beat that.
 
The way I've played this game is you hit Random Article on the front page and have to navigate from that to Hitler, but pokemon seems much more appropriate for the forums ^^

I think you should start on a random article instead of tortilla flat
 
If it's a random article, there's always the chance someone gets WW2 and wins in 1 turn, then someone gets blueberrys and has no chance of winning. It's equal this way.
 
Tortilla Flat> World War I> Empire Of Japan> Japan> Science and Technology in Japan> Consumer Electronics in Japan> Nintendo> Pokemon

7 moves.
 
Lol, sorry not this time ^_^


New Challenge: Spoon to Hexadecimal!
 
Spoon > Greeks (Ancient Greece) > Non-Religious (Atheism) > Witch Trials (Witch-Hunt) > Spell (Magic: Paranormal) > Hex (disambiguation) >Hexadecimal.

So that is 5.
 
Haven't had time for the second, but the first is this

Tortilla Flat -> Monterey, California -> Japan -> Nintendo -> Pokemon
 
@xdogking - That was going to be my path!! Now I have to try something different... :(

Spoon --> History of India --> Indian mathematics --> Decimal --> Hexadecimal
 
I'm not allowed to edit the wikipedia pages myself so that they link in 1 am I?

Spoon>Ancient Egypt>North Africa>Middle East>Japan>Anime>Pokemon


EDIT: Oh wow. I failed. I'll get from Spoon to Hexadecimal later.
 
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