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Play Six Degrees on Wikipedia
Posted by Lifehacker US Edition at 10:00 PM on June 7, 2008
Breathing new life into the 90's game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, researcher Stephen Dolan at Trinity College Dublin created the Six Degree of Wikipedia. Users can key in any combination of items into the script on his site and find how closely or distantly related the two things are. Lifehacker.com, coming in well under six degrees, is a mere 4 clicks away from Kevin Bacon. (Kevin Bacon - Game - Final Fantasy - Screenshot - Lifehacker.com)
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Kasper
Posted 11:47 PM 7/6/08
good* (typo)
Kasper
Kasper
Posted 11:46 PM 7/6/08
Wow, an apple is only 3 clicks away from duct tape!
...and it's god you posted this in the weekend, because it doesn't really help getting things done ;-)
Kasper
OX4
Posted 12:19 AM 8/6/08
Shortest path from Lifehacker to Pamela Anderson: 3 clicks needed. Ohhhhh yea!
OX4
axisfx
Posted 12:53 AM 8/6/08
Sadly I have played this too often, just at random times. I have spent hours at work doing this, they should fire me.
axisfx
fullyrandomtandem
Posted 12:37 AM 8/6/08
lol shortest path from Microsoft to pillow: Microsoft, homosexuality, masturbation, pillow -3 clicks needed lol!
fullyrandomtandem
Max H.
Posted 1:06 AM 8/6/08
I've found you can get to Hitler from any page on Wikipedia in 5 clicks or less.
Max H.
danger_the_pirate
Posted 2:33 AM 8/6/08
@Max H.: lifehacker.com, microsoft windows, mac osx, all to hitler: 2 clicks. i cant find an article thats not within 3 of hitler. there are soooo many dates linked to him that it makes it very hard.
danger_the_pirate
lackita
Posted 2:56 AM 8/6/08
I actually hacked together a game generator for this game last year (same name even). Check out six degrees of wikipedia to play.
lackita
DONNYchiban
Posted 3:35 AM 8/6/08
I thought this was the whole purpose of Wikipedia? It happens every single time I visit the site.
DONNYchiban
Myles
Posted 5:01 AM 8/6/08
[www.netsoc.tcd.ie]
Heh, heh, heh...
Myles
Keakealani
Posted 4:54 AM 8/6/08
yeah, that basically is the point, at least if you have some free time. I should point out that at least in the game rules I'm familiar with, dates and citations are off-limits...it's too easy to just click on "december" and get to anything else. But it is a fun way to waste time and hopefully learn something semi-useful.
Keakealani
rainwalker
Posted 8:50 AM 8/6/08
I don't remember what I searched for, I think it was from "penis" (am I allowed to say that?) to "microsoft" and it was something like 3 clicks, yet I searched that first article for the word it said was linked and it wasn't there...
rainwalker
Busybyeski
Posted 6:16 PM 8/6/08
Because "arithmetic mean" isn't in the article, just the link is. The actual word linking to that article is average.
Busybyeski
diablodevil2
Posted 3:07 AM 9/6/08
John Candy>Hamilton, Ohio,>1981>Contra.
I really thought there'd be more to it then that o.o;
diablodevil2
rasti
Posted 5:48 AM 9/6/08
[imgs.xkcd.com]
Somehow related graphic humor....
rasti
DoubleFelix
Posted 7:29 AM 9/6/08
This is what, 2 or 3 years old?
DoubleFelix
DeliaBogdan
Posted 5:10 PM 8/6/08
I do it from http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulmar (random article), to http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy (the game was on my desk), but 7 link were followed.
DeliaBogdan
earnest1
Posted 12:37 PM 8/6/08
Shortest path between 'love' and 'hate'(actually, hatred) takes 2 clicks, by way of Leviticus.
earnest1