Does anyone else play the Wikipedia game just by themselves?

[AngeloMysterioso]

I know it’s a bit tragic but quite often if I want to look something up on Wikipedia I won’t just search for it, I’ll go to the Wikipedia home page and try to find my way to it from there.

Just now for example, watching Teletubbies with DS I was curious about where it was filmed. Found my way to Teletubbies from the home page in impressively few steps!

I know there is an actual Wikipedia game for this but I never find that at much fun.

Nope. I’m the only saddo here

This sounds hilarious.

I just looked at the Wikipedia homepage & can’t even imagine how you did it!

I do this! It’s usually to find a celebrity that I’ve seen on TV. I also use IMDb for this too.

The Wikipedia version is more high brow though

No. It would frustrate the fuck out of me.

So you don’t type anything into the search box? How is this possible?! I’m impressed!

I have just had a go and managed to get from the home page to Stephen Hendry. Took a surprisingly long time from the Scotland page.

To the people asking you've got to click on the links throughout each article and try and find something that might be relevant.

@Ulysses

I do this! It’s usually to find a celebrity that I’ve seen on TV. I also use IMDb for this too.

Yep, I do that too

@DistrictCommissioner

I just looked at the Wikipedia homepage & can’t even imagine how you did it!

I started at en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

—> Royal Ballet
—> (Repertoire) Cinderella
—> (Works based on the Cinderella Story - English language live-action feature films) Into The Woods
—> James Corden
—> BBC
—> (Services - Television) CBeebies
—> Teletubbies

Boom!

I made it to Teletubbies via English National Ballet, London, Ealing studios, BBC, CBeebies, Teletubbies.

I just tried this with ‘dinosaurs’ and made it in five links, so I’m pretty happy with myself!!

I haven't tried this but with ds we play a game where we start on an imdb page and go back to find the oldest actor in 5 moves.

@Aroundtheworldin80moves

I made it to Teletubbies via English National Ballet, London, Ealing studios, BBC, CBeebies, Teletubbies.

Nice, two fewer steps than me!

We play a variation of this. DH will challenge me to get from, say, Sigmund Freud to the lute in as few moves as possible.

Lol I've done this! I thought I was the only one...

Yep. Didn’t know it was a ‘thing’ but glad to learn it’s not just me!

Never done this, but it sounds fun! I'll have to try it.

Omg. This is fun. I got to Andy Warhol In 4

Sherwood studio building (FP)
May Wilson Preston
National portait gallery
david wojnarowicz
Andy Warhol

You should start a game thread op!

How did I not know about this

Being stupid here but op when you went to Wikipedia how did you get to your first step (Royal Ballet in your example)?

I used to play a variety of this when I was in school. Everyone starts on the same randomly select d page, see who get to Hitler with the fewest clicks. Yours sounds more fun, though.

Tricky, 9, from home page of boats via Churchill to British Layland to the traditional Mini car

I went for gardens and got it in 3, too generic I think

Where do you start ? My wiki home page has hundreds of links, a page of the day, random generator, categories etc etc.
What is step one ?
I can see some first steps would be brilliant but if limited to page of the day probably less so.