I've coined a term that describes this:








http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chaining

The idea: a chain is made up of links. Help me bring this term into common usage.

lol

List of UFO sightings -> Theory of relativity

"List of UFO sightings" > "Folklore" > "William Thoms" > "Supercentenarian" > "Guinness World Records" > "Reference work" > "Mathematical table" > "Mathematics" > "Space" > "Theory of relativity"

now you:
"Banana" -> "Tyrannosaurus"

4m wrote:"Banana" -> "Tyrannosaurus"

Banana -> Florida -> History of Florida -> Paleo-Indians -> Upper Paleolithic -> Stone Age -> Prehistory -> Dinosaurs -> Tyrannosaurus



next challenge:
Universal Serial Bus -> pangaea

4m wrote:"Banana" -> "Tyrannosaurus"

"Banana" -> "Plant" -> "Species" -> "Taxonomic_rank" -> "Kingdom (biology)" -> "Animal" -> "Reptile" -> "Diapsid" -> "Dinosaur" -> "Tyrannosaurus"

4m wrote:"Banana" -> "Tyrannosaurus"

Heh, that's fun

Banana->United_States->United_States#History->Christopher_Columbus->Atlantic_Ocean->World_Ocean->Superocean->Pangaea->Jurassic->Diplodocus->Dinosaur->Tyrannosaurus
(well Xeno still holds the shortest way so far)

Another challenge:
Nexuiz -> Godzilla in less then 5 chainstops

Strahlemann wrote:Another challenge:
Nexuiz -> Godzilla in less then 5 chainstops

Nexuiz -> 2008 -> Tokyo -> Godzilla

2 or 3 chainstops, depending on how you count

Xeno The Blind wrote:next challenge:
Universal Serial Bus -> pangaea

Btw, just to make it clear, editing Wikipedia to reach your destination would be cheating, even if the edit itself would be understandable (I mean really, no mention of Godzilla in the entry for "Japan"... WTF?).





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Universal Serial Bus > Apple, Inc > iMac G3 > Pangea
(Pangea redirects so counts as one :)

Dave wrote:Universal Serial Bus > Apple, Inc > iMac G3 > Pangea
(Pangea redirects so counts as one

Damn product names.

So, propose the next challenge.

Xeno The Blind wrote:So, propose the next challenge.

Oh, fine. Here's an easy one: Neil Hamburger > Blandings Castle

ok, here's another:

Flat Earth Society -> Scientific progress

I should totally make a greasemonkey script that solves these chains

That's hillarious! XD None of you got my chain right:
"Banana" > "Common name" > "List of birds" > "List of fossil birds" > "Dinosaur" > "Tyrannosaurus"

"All roads lead to Rome" i guess.

Is the answer rome?

[TSA] Psychcf wrote:ok, here's another:

Flat Earth Society -> Scientific progress

I should totally make a greasemonkey script that solves these chains

Flat Earth Society -> Arthur C. Clark -> Science -> Philosophy of science -> Epistemological anarchism -> Scientific progress

Weird that the Science page doesn't have the word progress once.

I made it from a list of "2006 toyota parts list" to "Jesus Christ" in 3 (I think) clicks playing the Jesus game.

It's so easy with Jeebus.

This one is a bit tricky:

Mother insult -> Jono Bacon

http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~mu/wiki/

it's not fun anymore

Yes, but:

http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~mu/cgi-bin/sh ... eorge+bush

http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~mu/cgi-bin/sh ... eorge+bush

Dave wrote:

Xeno The Blind wrote:So, propose the next challenge.

Oh, fine. Here's an easy one: Neil Hamburger > Blandings Castle

Neil Hamburger -> Ed Sullivan -> Walter Winchel ->l P. G. Wodehouse -> Blandings Castle

/cheating

Theres another way to cheat, using special pages showing linked pages and "pages that link here", but thats less efficient and requires some guesswork.

All in all, I only wanted to popularize the term "chaining", not start a game (although it was fun for about 6 posts).

Chaining isn't a directed search, it's what happens when you let your curiosity keep telling you to click on other links and you eventually end up miles away from what you originally looked up, without ever trying to get there.

I use the term now

Xeno The Blind wrote:All in all, I only wanted to popularize the term "chaining", not start a game (although it was fun for about 6 posts).

Chaining isn't a directed search, it's what happens when you let your curiosity keep telling you to click on other links and you eventually end up miles away from what you originally looked up, without ever trying to get there.

Hm, i think that's how i discovered Nexuiz. I think that's how we all ended up here.