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1 rule Clarification?
2 Variations
3 N Degrees of separation
4 stub templates

[edit] rule Clarification?

can you edit the page? This does not always require clicking on a link outside the article. you can often just double click on the article if your logged in and have your pref. set?

I don't know what the inventors think about it, but I think it wouldn't be ok. For if you edit a page to get to your Homing Page, everyone is back after three or four clicks. Besides you would damage Wikipedia by inserting nonsense links in random articles.

As i am a inventor i am a gay batty boy, I will say, no, this is not allowed. - Che Nuevara: ^{Join the Revolution} 16:57, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

It does involve using a text entry which is not allowed.

An alternative "game" would be to find the 2 pages that are farthest apart on wikipedia.

What if the random page you get as your homming page is an orphan page? For example I just clicked Random Page and I got Molten Sea, which has only one incomming link, from Wikipedia:Orphaned Articles/M-Z. If the orphaned article was added since the last dump and orphan detection then you could start on an article that had no incomming links. . . . Jim 22:05, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Similarly I landed at disambiguation page with no incomming links, other than from that category. Thryduulf 13:17, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

A page with no incoming links is clearly not valid as the homing page. But as long as it has outgoing links, it can be used as the "start" page. - Che Nuevara: ^{Join the Revolution} 16:57, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Ctrl+F
the way we play, you cannot use Ctrl+F, this way a "scanning" skill is required, and one is more likely to click on a less relevant link, making the game more interesting. This is the way the game should be played. Pgaffney09 05:45, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Variations

In college, we'd have contests to see who could get from, say, disney.com to *ahem* inappropriate content the quickest, and with the fewest clicks. If I recall correctly, somebody was able to go from disney.com to playboy.com in something like 4 clicks. With the same idea, you could just select two random wiki pages and have a contest to get from one to the other (thus avoiding getting a 3rd party to click 10 links and clearing the browser history). That would be challenging but sometimes impossible (i really wonder how often - I bet less often than you'd expect). Would be easier to run that one as a timed event instead of a number of clicks. --Drue 21:41, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] N Degrees of separation

Isn't this exactly like Wikipedia:N degrees of separation? Jaberwocky6669 19:31, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

No. N-degrees is a quasi-study. This is a competitive game, purely for shits and giggles. - Che Nuevara: ^{Join the Revolution} 16:55, 6 February 2006 (UTC)