Thursday, May 26, 2011

Wiki-Philosophy Trivia

Today on XKCD the alt text says that if you click the first hyperlink on any page in wikipedia that is not in parentheses or in italics, and repeat that process, you will eventually end up at Philosophy.

I checked Lake Trout. 13 clicks later I was at philosophy.

From Tauroctony, 24 clicks.

From Nachos, 19 clicks.

From Magick, 19 clicks.

7 comments:

pomomagic said...

I keep falling into an endless loop once I hit "fact."

brooding gecko said...

I did that test too, but my range was in the 10-12 clicks, guess i just got luckier with the random articles

Rufus Opus said...

not in parens or italics. I hit a loop for a while, but then realized I was clicking the ones in parentheses.

Anonymous said...

Manolo Blahnik (the expensive shoe guy) = 13 clicks

Flywheel Engine = 16 clicks

American Idol = 7 clicks

Dungeons & Dragons = 33 clicks

Yup.

Anonymous said...

Do it automatically via
http://ryanelmquist.com/cgi-bin/xkcdwiki

aren't ya glad someone else writes code for us ? :-)

pndiku said...

West Germany is a loop

Pallas Renatus said...

philosophy -> reason -> rationality -> philosophy. Does this count as 3 clicks or a loop? lol it's like asking if 0/0=0.

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