A Wikipedia Experiment

[TartanLlama]

How about puppies to nuclear warhead?

7
Puppy(disambiguation) > Puppy(film) > 2008 Films > I > Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull > Nuclear Explosion > Nuclear Weapon (warhead redirects there)

 

[Katratzi]

this game is impossible to beat. ok how bout making it from world of warcraft, to dr pepper

Okay 5 steps

World of Warcraft > "Make Love Not Warcraft" South Park Episode > Rockstar Energy Drinks > Energy Drink > Snapple Beverage Group > Dr Pepper

 

[Mosine]

grrrr, i will find one that you can't beat
hmmmmm
try cigarette to logic bomb

 

[Cpt. Red]

I challenge thy to go from Mozilla to Polyvinyl acetate!

 

[awesomepanda]

puppy>sparring>self defence>force>quantum mechanic>nuclear physics>nuclear weapon

 

[Altorin]

Appendectomy
General Aneasthethics
Viagra
United States Senate
Robert Byrd
Jesus
Second Coming
End Times
Categoryrophecy
Categoryrophets
Thiota

10 clicks...

That was a stretch.

 

[whaleswiththumbs]

I rather like the Googling game more.

For those unaware, it goes like this:

You and a friend (or several) compete against each other. Pick up a dictionary, each one chooses a single word. Each one does a general Google search. Refine the search by adding a new word to the 'seed' word. The person who first gets precisely one result with the fewest additional words added to the 'seed' word wins. If you have to backtrack (ie, got zero results), you can remove any single word, but it still counts towards the total number of words used.

Example: Search field "Boltzmann equation formula paradise heaven car fuel efficiency rally leaflet stockholm schwarzwald atomic halo accelerator keyboard tilde Newton wristlet" still returns 9 results. Damn internet is wacky.

I just searched an thank to your post thee are now 10

 

[Mosine]

I challenge thy to go from Mozilla to Polyvinyl acetate!

done it in 9
Mozilla>String(computer science)>Rope (computer science)> rope disambiguation>synthetic fibre> polyethylene>plastic> polyvinyl chloride>polyvinyl acetate

not so hard

 

[Altorin]

I challenge thy to go from Mozilla to Polyvinyl acetate!

Mozilla
Tax
Taxation in the United States
Petroleum
Plastic
Ethylene-vinyl acetate
polyvinyl acetate

beat you for number of clicks mosine

 

[Ren3004]

Another version of this is just clicking "random article" and try to get to a certain page in a certain number of clicks. Though admittedly, this one is more about luck than anything else.

Anyway, try getting from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_West_%28basketball%29 to The Escapist in less than 9 clicks.

 

[Mosine]

Damn you Altorin.
ok how bout Pokemon to quavers

 

[Cpt. Red]

Cigarette to Logic Bomb in 7:

Spoiler

Cigarette->1971->1974->1977->Atari 2600->Adventure (Atari 2600)->Easter Egg->Logic Bomb

EDIT:

I challenge thy to go from Mozilla to Polyvinyl acetate!

Mozilla
Tax
Taxation in the United States
Petroleum
Plastic
Ethylene-vinyl acetate
polyvinyl acetate

beat you for number of clicks mosine

I tried mine and got 5:

Spoiler

Mozilla->SeaMonkey->Seamonkey(disambiguation)->Borax->Polyvinyl acetate

Also please add spoiler tags to solutions...

 

[Nivag the Owl]

There's kind of this old internet wikipedia rule that it's possible to get from any page to any other page within 7 clicks only using links within the article. So yeah, I expect it's possile

 

[awesomepanda]

how do you make spoiler tags?

 

[Altorin]

Cigarette to Logic Bomb in 7:

Spoiler

Cigarette->1971->1974->1977->Atari 2600->Adventure (Atari 2600)->Easter Egg->Logic Bomb

EDIT:

I challenge thy to go from Mozilla to Polyvinyl acetate!

Mozilla
Tax
Taxation in the United States
Petroleum
Plastic
Ethylene-vinyl acetate
polyvinyl acetate

beat you for number of clicks mosine

I tried mine and got 5:

Spoiler

Mozilla->SeaMonkey->Seamonkey(disambiguation)->Borax->Polyvinyl acetate

Also please add spoiler tags to solutions...

I gotta hand it to you, that's good.

 

[Mosine]

try from pokemon to quavers
and
vaginal flatulence to nostradamus
see if you can do those 2 in less than 7 clicks

 

[Altorin]

Damn you Altorin.
ok how bout Pokemon to quavers

I got from Pokemon to Pushover, which according to the Quavers page, the original Mascot for Quavers, Lenny Henry was in somehow.

that's as good as I can get for now.

 

[Altorin]

Go to Wikipedia and search up wood. Now,without using the search bar,get to the page of Evil Dead (The first one). Do you think this is possible? Try it with anything else. Is it easier? Tell me.

[HEADING=3]
Its called A WikiRace(tm)
[/HEADING]
Using only the blue links I can get from Cocaine [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cocaine] to Dentistry [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/dentistry] in just 2 jumps (page to page through link clicks(2 jumps makes 3 pages in total))

Thats the best I've ever done. I also got from foot to window via the ford transit. It took some time though.

There are three methods to play a WikiRace(tm), you can play against a friend or two, the first one to get from one topic the the next wins, or you could play solo Via time trial or Jump counting.

that's not surprising, my dad was given cocaine by a paramedic to help stop the bleeding when he broke his nose after a bad fall.

 

[awesomepanda]

heres the pokemon to quavers

pokemon>Nintendo DS>List of Nintendo DS games>List of Nintendo DS games(A-I)>cooking mama>Vegetable>Potato>potato chip>Walkers (snack foods)>Quavers

thats 9 clicks