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Ghoulish Delight 05-25-2011 02:27 PM

Here's a related game (from BoingBoing)

Finding Jesus
1 - go to wikipedia
2 - click the random page link
3 - on that page, click a link that you think will get you as close to the page for Jesus as possible
4 - keeping track of your clicks, repeat step 3 until you FIND JESUS

Score 1 point for each page you visit, including Jesus. Lowest score wins. I'll start.

Internet In Algeria ---> Internet in Egypt ---> Middle East ---> Christianity ---> Jesus

5 points, nice!

Moonliner 05-25-2011 02:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight (Post 347380)
Hmm, Alex's path follows the letter of the law ["click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics"]. Moonliner's probably follow more the intent since, in that case, the parentheses are not of the technical sort that contain nothing but pronunciation, word origin, etc. that head many articles, but rather it's presented as part of the explanatory text that just happens to be parenthetical. Although, in that it just provides a synonym, it is very closely related to the kind of parenthetical the "not in parentheses" clause was meant to rule out.

Definite gray area.

How does Alex get to Reason? Are you all seeing something different from what I see?


Ghoulish Delight 05-25-2011 02:36 PM

"Rational Argument" IS a link to "Reason".

On the Reason page you're clicking "rationality", which is in parentheses. Alex is clicking "faculty" which is outside of the parentheses (and actually links to "sense")

Alex 05-25-2011 02:42 PM

And on reason the first link not italicized or in parenthesis is "faculty" which goes to Sense.

I just did this 10 times starting from random pages.

All ten times the route to Philosophy went through Mathematics. 9 out of the 10 times it went through Science on the way through Mathematics.

Moonliner 05-25-2011 02:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight (Post 347386)
"Rational Argument" IS a link to "Reason".

On the Reason page you're clicking "rationality", which is in parentheses. Alex is clicking "faculty" which is outside of the parentheses (and actually links to "sense")

Fine.

Road.

Ghoulish Delight 05-25-2011 02:50 PM

Star Screen Award for Best Comedian
Bollywood
English
bookstore (bookselling)
publishing
literature
bible
Jesus

7 points.

Alex 05-25-2011 02:51 PM

I get:

Road --> Thoroughfare --> Highway --> Highway systems by country --> Geography --> Earth --> Planet --> Orbit --> Physics --> Natural Science --> Science --> Knowledge --> Facts --> Information --> Finite set --> Mathematics --> Quantity --> Property (philosophy) --> Modern Philosophy --> Philosophy

Is it cheating that I edited the Highway Systems page so that Highway was no longer the first link?

Let's see:

Cheating --> Audultery --> Extramarital sex --> marriage --> kinship --> Entity --> Existence --> Sense --> Physiology --> Organ (anatomy) --> Biology --> Natural Science --> Science --> see science chain.

mousepod 05-25-2011 03:11 PM

Slovenia at the 2009 Mediterranean Games -> Italy -> Pope -> Jesus

4 points

JWBear 05-25-2011 03:22 PM

I was just reading that there are people going in and editing articles to try and stop you from getting to Philosophy.

Ghoulish Delight 05-25-2011 03:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex (Post 347390)
I get:


Is it cheating that I edited the Highway Systems page so that Highway was no longer the first link?

Actually you're going to have to go back to Highway and edit it so Road isn't the first link (you missed it, probably because it's a short word and your followed-link color made it blend with the other black text around it)


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