New Wikipedia Game, Brought to you by XKCD
“If you take any article, click on the first link in the article not in parenthesis or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at”Philosophy”.“ - xkcd
The game, then, must be played thusly:
Click Random Article from the Wikipedia sidebar.
Click the first link in the article not in parenthisis or italics.
Track how many clicks it takes to get to the article on ”Philosophy“. The fewer clicks the better.
First round:
From the random article on Kaga, Ishikawa, I got to “Philosophy” in 18 clicks. For added fun, track the path you took to get there:
- Philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Modern philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Property (philosophy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Quantity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Mathematics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Sequence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Information - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Fact - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Knowledge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Science - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Taxonomy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Human - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Person - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Individual - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Group decision making - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Politics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Public administration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Cities of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Kaga, Ishikawa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This game proves that all things begin with Philosophy. (I once made up a variation of this game using the article on “Baby Got Back”. That proved nothing.)