Tuesday, July 1, 2008

The Wiki Game

What you need: Two computers outfitted with the interweb.

What you do:

1) Go to Wikipedia.

2) Click "random article."

3) Agree with your opponent that the random article is, indeed, a random article.

4) Open another window.

5) Go to Wikipedia.

6) Click on "random article."

7) Opponent does same (say, for example, your goal is to get to the page "Lord Snowdon." "Lord Snowdon" is Article 1. Opponent 1 tries to get to "Lord Snowdon" from "Theoretical Mathematics" and Opponent 2 tries to get to "Lord Snowdon" from "The Beatles.").

8) Try to get to Article 1 from the links in Article 2.

9) First one to get to Article 1 from Article 2 wins.

10) Repeat ad nauseum.

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