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	8 points by stefuuuun 1627 days ago

3 comments

sigmaprimus 1627 days ago

This is a neat idea, I tried getting from "Soup" to "Superman" but got stuck down a rabbit hole in Academy Awards.

Have You made a solver for this game? I wonder if Cloudfare would take exception to such a thing?

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stefuuuun 1627 days ago

Thanks! Difficult to leave the Academy Awards once you entered them.. Solver in regards to what? :) Wikipedia pages are loaded on the front-end and I haven't encountered a rate-limit so far.

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sigmaprimus 1627 days ago

I was thinking a solver that found the most efficient, least number of hops to reach target word from seed word. Maybe it is an NP Hard problem? This also reminds me of 7 degrees of Kevin Bacon.

I could see this going over well for an Online "socially distanced" game night, or possibly a classroom activity to encourage efficient research techniques.

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mumintrollet 1626 days ago

There is a solver at https://github.com/jwngr/sdow, fittingly called Six Degrees of Wikipedia :)

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stefuuuun 1627 days ago

Created using Plasmic.app, Next.js, Pusher, Upstash and Vercel :)

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binwiederhier 1627 days ago

This is fun. I did Phil->Germany. I'll suggest to my colleagues. I bet it's more fun racing together.

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