Wikipedia Game

[palexander]

Bored at work today, we kinda invented a game using Wikipedia.

First, we each challenged the other person to find a link between two people in less than 10 steps - which proved fairly straight forward! (For reasons unknown now, the very first challenge was the WWE Wrestler, Euguene, to actor Tom Cruise).

After a few of these which amazingly against the odds were achieved, we then went from a random Wikipedia start, to a celeb figure - the first being a link to David Hasslehoff - and to see who out of the office could get it in the least steps (I won with 7 steps from some vague Japanese art flick).

Its proving to be quite addictive!

Have we stumbled upon the next 'Googlewhack'?

 

[The Fitter]

Not so super impressive I'm afraid.
"six degrees of separation" is the idea that you can be connected to anyone in the world via a chain of no more than six people, each of whom knows the next person in the chain.

Read the chapter, 'It's a small world after all' in the book, 'The velocity of honey' for an insight.

Also you might like to try Click on me go on and play a similar game to the one you are playing but with Kevin Bacon as your starter.