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flammableBen

« on: Tuesday, March 7, 2006, 11:06:18 »

..that sitting and waiting for something to finish downloading.

So I invented a great game to help pass the hours. I call it the Ben Wikipedia game. (I bet someone else has already come up with this).

The aim of the game is to get to a pre chosen article by only clicking on links in other articles.

So you pick your target article. I'm going for Jamie Cureton. Now I go and press the random article button on the left. Yey. I've got to get from Spring Cleaning back to Jamie Cureton in as few a clicks as possible. I reckon everything should be possible in less than 10.

For a more hardcore version you can ban going through countries. Can make it quite a mission if you don't have much knowledge of your target entry though.

Man I know how to spend my time.
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STFC Village

« Reply #1 on: Tuesday, March 7, 2006, 11:10:57 »

What's Wikipedia? :?
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Whits
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« Reply #2 on: Tuesday, March 7, 2006, 11:11:33 »

Quote from: "STFC Village"
What's Wikipedia? :?


where have you been for the last 6 months?  :roll:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
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land_of_bo

« Reply #3 on: Tuesday, March 7, 2006, 11:22:16 »

Quote from: "flammableBen"
..that sitting and waiting for something to finish downloading.

So I invented a great game to help pass the hours. I call it the Ben Wikipedia game. (I bet someone else has already come up with this).

The aim of the game is to get to a pre chosen article by only clicking on links in other articles.

So you pick your target article. I'm going for Jamie Cureton. Now I go and press the random article button on the left. Yey. I've got to get from Spring Cleaning back to Jamie Cureton in as few a clicks as possible. I reckon everything should be possible in less than 10.

For a more hardcore version you can ban going through countries. Can make it quite a mission if you don't have much knowledge of your target entry though.

Man I know how to spend my time.


I put a nice edit on the page for when you get there  Cool
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STFC Village

« Reply #4 on: Tuesday, March 7, 2006, 11:27:24 »

Quote from: "Whits"
where have you been for the last 6 months?  :roll:
Not browsing the pages of Wikipedia, apparently :|
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flammableBen

« Reply #5 on: Tuesday, March 7, 2006, 11:30:05 »

I got pissed off. Got to the STFC page in 5/6 clicks only to find that although Jamie Cureton is mentioned the fucking link doesn't work. So I got angry and gave up.

haha ace edit. Think it's been removed allready though. Had to look in the history.
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land_of_bo

« Reply #6 on: Tuesday, March 7, 2006, 11:31:01 »

It must be someones job to sit there and check peoples edits....it only stayed up there for a few minutes and was gone!
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« Reply #7 on: Tuesday, March 7, 2006, 13:53:06 »

There is nothing better in life than writing on the sole of your slipper with a biro on a Saturday night instead of going to the pub !

NMH
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« Reply #8 on: Tuesday, March 7, 2006, 14:44:43 »

My random link took me to full house a korean drama, then went to the category south korea, list of all korean topics, south korean football competitions, k league and there's a link to Jamie Cureton on there as he's one of the most famous players to play in the korean league. That's mad.
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