Monday, November 24, 2008
Six Degrees of Hitler
1) Go to Wikipedia.
2) Click any random link on there.
3) You have five clicks to reach Hitler's article.
GO!
UPDATE: Forgot to mention varying levels of difficulty.
Easy Mode: Any links
Nightmare Mode: No Country Links
Hell Mode: No Country or Date links
24 Comments:
By 
Dawnfire82, at
Mon Nov 24, 08:21:00 PM:
That was kinda fun. Wouldn't have been able to do it without country/date links though. My random article was on King David of Scotland. Had to connect to the 20th century through the History of the United Kingdom, since Scotland ceased to exist as an independent power in the 18th century.
By Aegon01, at
Mon Nov 24, 08:28:00 PM:
I beat it in Easy with "1947 Constitution", "World War II", "Adolf Hitler", and then I beat it on Hell with "United Nations Security Council", "Genocide", "Nuremberg Trials", "Adolf Hitler."
One could argue that "United Nations" is the worst violation of the "No countries" rule, but it's not REALLY a country.
By BrendaK, at
Mon Nov 24, 08:54:00 PM:
Did it in the Hell category with:
Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy
to
MGM (Metro-Goldyn-Mayer)
to
World War II
to
Adolph Hitler
Ok, that was fun.
By Assistant Village Idiot, at
Mon Nov 24, 08:58:00 PM:
Colin Renfrew, Proto-Indo-Europeans, Aryan Race, Adolph Hitler.
From today's wikipedia front page: Waitaha Penguin, Proceedings of the Royal Society, Human Biology, Freiherr von Blomberg, Adolph Hitler.
Fun!
By Unknown, at
Mon Nov 24, 09:02:00 PM:
Random link yielded Half-life (disambiguation)
Clicked links: Halflife (comics), The Marvel Super Heroes, Captain America, Adolf Hitler
Fun.
By 
, at
Mon Nov 24, 09:08:00 PM:
From Wikipedia main page--Yukio Mishima (author)
to World War II
to Hitler
By K. Pablo, at
Mon Nov 24, 09:11:00 PM:
Radio-frequency identification
to
Leon Theremin
to
Josef Stalin
to
Adolf.
By Andrew X, at
Mon Nov 24, 09:11:00 PM:
Too easy.
The lead page (English) has this day in history - Yukio Mishima, famous Japanese right-wing author, committed suicide at the Army HQ in 1970.
Mishima leads to WWII
WWII (obviously) leads to AH.
Great game though. Reminiscent of my Nazi observation: Namely, on your 400 channels of cable, at any given time, you can always find Nazis... somewhere. (I throw WWII Pacific in with them.)
Take it out for a spin, it's 90% true.
By Andrew X, at
Mon Nov 24, 09:12:00 PM:
Nicholas, ya beat me to it!
You cheated, obviously using a time machine to steal my answer!
By , at
Mon Nov 24, 11:03:00 PM:
Too easy
Random: Ruda, Gmina Kazanów to
Poland
WW II
Hitler
By , at
Mon Nov 24, 11:29:00 PM:
2 clicks in hell mode.
Random Article: List of city squares by size ----> Leipzig ----> Adolf Hitler. Fascinating. Fun game.
By , at
Mon Nov 24, 11:39:00 PM:
I clicked random article, got Lou Holtz.
The article mentioned his controversial statement about Adolf Hitler being a good leader, but it wasn't linked to the Hitler article. Thwarted...
By Michael Braly, at
Tue Nov 25, 02:16:00 AM:
It took me 7 clicks on "easy" starting random --> some muscle group. Rapper handles with disambiguation --> Rapper page --> country got me out of that one.
By Noumenon, at
Tue Nov 25, 04:47:00 AM:
Great thread you started here, TT.
By Dawnfire82, at
Tue Nov 25, 10:44:00 AM:
ah hah!
Ptychochromoides itasy (random article)
Endemism
World Wildlife Fund
Non-governmental Oragnization
Strasbourg
Nazi Germany
Odd that I could got from an extinct fish, but not from a monarch of Scotland.
By , at
Tue Nov 25, 10:53:00 AM:
Hell mode:
Random link: Allendale Square! (in Perth,AUS)
to Fireworks
to Rocket
to Wehrmacht
to Hitler
Believe it or not, the V2 page had no link to Hitler!
By , at
Tue Nov 25, 10:59:00 AM:
Surprisingly easy second attempt:
Random link: Nevado del Huila (Volcano in Colombia)
to BBC
to World War II
to Hitler
By MEANA55, at
Tue Nov 25, 01:21:00 PM:
The game behind this game is that Wikipedia is going to dump their logs showing a sudden massive spike in demand for the Hitler page from IPs in the U.S., and the MSM is going to run an endless stream of stories over the holiday weekend citing this as proof positive that white supremacist extremism is running rampant in the weeks following the election.
The game is still fun, though.
Tension (Physics) random article
Special relativity (via "relativistic" link)
Albert Einstein
Adolf Hitler
By Adam Lawson, at
Tue Nov 25, 04:51:00 PM:
This was easy even in hell mode, at least for me:
History_of_Canadian_cricket to Seven_Years_War to
World_war to
World_War_II to
Adolf_Hitler
No country, no date...
By Pax Federatica, at
Wed Nov 26, 12:35:00 AM:
In "hell mode":
McKinney Homestead
National Register of Historic Places
Liberty ship
World War II
Adolf Hitler
I've noticed a lot of these sequences have World War II as the penultimate page. Maybe we should change the "hell mode" rules to disqualify that page too.
By Chris, at
Thu Nov 27, 09:37:00 AM:
random - competition cup (FA)
Olympics
Summer Olympics
Hitler
Done and done.
By , at
Thu Nov 27, 10:46:00 AM:
George W. Bush to Hitler in one shot.
By , at
Wed Apr 22, 03:21:00 PM:
I got lucky with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Hitler
By , at
Sat Feb 19, 09:10:00 PM:
mine was strange. i went from
1.janine canan
2.else lasker
3.WWII
4.adolf hitler
