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[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 june 1763 (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)

[edit] stub templates

For example:

This article about articles is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Are you allowed to click on the link Articles?--75.37.84.30 03:24, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] California State University, Fullerton & University of California, Irvine Version

This is weird; my friends and I have been playing this for about two years now. We once had a tournament in a computer lab. Here are our rules for advanced play: 1. No Keyboard use allowed (esp. CTRL+F or editing a page) 2. No Backtracking 3. No Nations or Continents 4. No Years (e.g. 1986) 5. If you click to a dead end you lose. 6. The winner is the first to find the end site, not the fewest clicks. 7. The start and goal pages are made by two seperate competitors in silence, and their choices are disclosed simultaneously. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Amiaheroyet (talk • contribs) 10:20, 13 May 2008 (UTC)