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Wikispeedia
This game is easy and fun:
- You are given two Wikipedia articles* (or you choose two yourself).
- Starting from the first article, your goal is to reach the second one, exclusively by following links in the articles you encounter. (For the articles you are given this is always possible.)
- Links you can take are colored like this.
- Of course, it's more fun if you try to be as quick as possible...
- Next to wasting some precious time and learning interesting yet useless Wikipedia facts, you're also providing Bob (
) with data for his research project.
* The articles have been borrowed from the 4,600-article CD version of Wikipedia available at schools-wikipedia.org (version of 2007).
Games played by others:
Mission |
Clicks |
Avg. hardness** |
|
Voting >> Library of Alexandria |
avg. 28.5, rec. 17 |
4.5 |
Play!
|
Caesium fluoride >> Coffee |
avg. 8, rec. 4 |
2.5 |
Play!
|
Indian independence movement >> Diabetes mellitus |
avg. 7, rec. 7 |
- |
Play!
|
Slavic mythology >> Algebra |
avg. 4.6, rec. 4 |
3 |
Play!
|
Barracuda >> Alberto Santos-Dumont |
avg. 4, rec. 4 |
- |
Play!
|
** On a scale from 1 (easy) to 5 (brutal); if you want to make this more reliable, just hit the rate button after each game.
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