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by stonesam92 3403 days ago
This reminds me of "The Wikipedia Game" we'd play at school.

You'd all start on one random page, and race to get to some completely unrelated target page, only by clicking through links to other pages.

It was always surprising how few degrees of separation there were between wildly unrelated topics.

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We played that too, I think we called it "five clicks to Jesus (or Hitler)" or something. After a while you learn which pages will probably be very long and general and will be good jumping off places to head in a new direction.
I just did this starting with the movie "Oh, God! You Devil":

- James Cromwell

- Category: American people of German descent

- Category: Ambassadors of Germany to the United States

- Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff

- Adolf Hitler

That one is easy if you're trying to get to Jesus :)
Reminds me of... https://xefer.com/wikipedia

Builds some very cool chain of links all leading to Philosophy