wikington cresent

[fourmyle]

Wikington Crescent is a version played on Wikipedia. Players start with a 'Random Article' and must navigate to the Mornington Crescent tube station article by clicking through links on the random article and subsequent articles. The fewer links used, the better the play. For example: Matterhorn to Mornington Crescent tube station can be played in

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[fourmyle]

alex will thank me.

[sack_boy]

Aeromodelling / Model aircraft (auto redirect)
1807
19th century
London Underground
Mornington Crescent tube station

5 steps, 4 if you don't count the autoredirect

[almosthonest]

Hmmm - I see there's still scope for a lateral shunt, given that Wikipedia has discussion pages. (I won't insult by detailing the obvious.)

Careful not to link through the Aldwych article, mind you.

[sack_boy]

Let's try a more creative one here ...

Aldwych -> Picadilly Line (it's on it) -> Leslie Green (Tube Station Architect) -> MC

But of course as a) Aldwych was a branch terminus, and b) it's shut so tends not to go anywhere. Unless you are V/Evie and have a tube train full of explosives (Aldwych was used for those scenes apparently.)

[almosthonest]

-winces- Aldwych move, very dangerous. If someone had edited an article underneath you, you'd've been in knip, and with no scope for diagonal loops in Wiki, you'd've been stuck.

[talking_dog]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_War_of_Independence (4)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_at_Fillmore_East_%28King_Crimson%29 (4)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldons_galaxias (5)

[almosthonest]

Ditto 5 on Eldons galaxias. I think we're probably proving the "X degrees of separation" theorem, as applied to the Wikipedia network.

[sack_boy]

Eldons galaxias
New Zealand
London
Camden Town
Mornington Crescent tube station

4 steps

Degrees of separation

[sack_boy]

How about from "Random Page" to MC and back again by a different route?

eg:

Lorien Trust -> BBC -> Central London -> Camden Town -> MC

MC -> London -> Horror film -> Undead ->Lorien Trust

Although this does have London vs Central London, so not technically the same articals.