xkcd

by **Josephine** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 10:52 pm UTC

eviloatmeal wrote:
I can't however find the link to Panzer from Wehrmacht?

It's there. Fourth instance of Panzer on the page, I believe. Search it.

by **eviloatmeal** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 11:31 pm UTC

nbonaparte wrote:
eviloatmeal wrote:
I can't however find the link to Panzer from Wehrmacht?

It's there. Fourth instance of Panzer on the page, I believe. Search it.

Ah, there it is! Well I guess we have our round trip then.

by **Zamfir** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 7:24 am UTC

Cynical Idealist wrote:
Nautilus wrote:SBF2
Category:Human proteins
Methionine synthase
Regeneration (biology)
Stem cell
Russia
World War II
Adolf Hitler
...
Well, it took more than five, but I started with in-depth developmental biology. Beat that.

SBF2
Gene
Gregor Mendel
Ethnic Germans
Germans
Adolph Hitler

2 less steps in one try, but I'm going to try some other paths.

ETA: tried some others, didn't find anything better.

SBF2
1.protein
2.Walter Kauzman
3. Manhattan Project
4. Hitler

Tried for 3 steps, but haven't managed yet.

by **kashey** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 4:55 pm UTC

1. Pikachu
2. Capitalism
3. Fascism
4. Adolf Hitler

by **eviloatmeal** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 2:10 am UTC

0. Treaty of Stralsund (1370)
1. Denmark
2. World War I
3. World War II
4. Adolf Hitler
5. World War I
6. Treaty of Versailles
7. Peace Treaty
8. List of Treaties
9. Treaty of Stralsund
10. Treaty of Stralsund (1370)

Phew!!

Note that Treaty of Stralsund is a disambiguation page, but the link in the article List of Treaties was referring to the article Treaty of Stralsund (1370) so I fixed that after I completed my round trip. =·)

Wonder if there's a shorter round trip for this one. Anyone up for the challenge? (Ignoring of course the edit I made, so shorter than 9 steps)

by **Zamfir** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 7:21 am UTC

0. treaty of Stralsund (1370)
1. Hanseatic League
2. Adolf Hitler (oh yes)
3. Germany
4. Hanseatic league
5. Treaty of Stralsund (1370)

A few random articles later, I ended up with Dura Convertible Systems (Automobile, Germany, Hitler), but this article had the text

This article is an orphan, as few or no other articles link to it.

I could indeed not find any article linking to it, which does make it hard to make round trip...

Another one of I am proud, although I can imagine further improvements:
0.Darryl Richley
1. Supreme court of the US
2. Franklin D. Roosevelt
3. Adolf Hitler
4. Karl Brandt (his doctor)
5. Executions by the United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals
6. 20th-century executions by the United States
7. Darryl Richley

by **eviloatmeal** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 11:02 am UTC

Zamfir wrote:0. treaty of Stralsund (1370)
1. Hanseatic League
2. Adolf Hitler (oh yes)
3. Germany
4. Hanseatic league
5. Treaty of Stralsund (1370)

Impressive!

by **tastelikecoke** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 5:44 am UTC

0. Strategic_entry_deterrence
1. Aircraft
2. World War I
3. Adolf Hitler

0. Searchlights (Abandon Album)
1. Christian Rock
2. United States
3. Nazi Germany
4. Adolf Hitler

0. Max_Frankel
1. Germany
2. Adolf Hitler

quite creepy how easy it is.
more:

0. Ingeborg Sørensen
1. Playboy
2. Tanja Szewczenko
3. Germany
4. Adolf HItler

START: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamprocabera <--look at the article
1. Geometridae
2. Population Genetics
3. Natural Selection
4. Nazi
5. Adolf Hitler

START: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamprocabera
1. Animala
2. Carolus Linnaeus
3. Syphilis
4. Adolf Hitler
^ better try aiming on syphilis now guys

by **Zamfir** » Tue Apr 06, 2010 9:33 am UTC

tastelikecoke wrote:
START: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamprocabera <--look at the article
1. Geometridae
2. Population Genetics
3. Natural Selection
4. Nazi
5. Adolf Hitler

START: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamprocabera
1. Animala
2. Carolus Linnaeus
3. Syphilis
4. Adolf Hitler
^ better try aiming on syphilis now guys

Scarily, even this one can be improved on:
0.Lamprocabera
1.Insects
2.Europe
3.Hitler

However, I can't find a decent reverse chain. Someone please improve on this!:

0.Hitler
1.Aryan people
2. Genetics
3. Population Genetics
4. Peppered moth
5. Geomitridae
6. List of geometrid genera
7. List of geometrid genera: L
8. Lamprocabera

by **BurningLed** » Fri Apr 09, 2010 1:53 pm UTC

How about this:

Hitler
1. Eugenics
2. Darwin's Origin of Species
3. Evidence of common descent
4. Peppered moth evolution...

Nevermind. I hadn't counted the actual steps, and that is actually one longer than yours xD

by **Zamfir** » Fri Apr 09, 2010 4:44 pm UTC

BurningLed wrote:How about this:

Hitler
1. Eugenics
2. Darwin's Origin of Species
3. Evidence of common descent
4. Peppered moth evolution...

Nevermind. I hadn't counted the actual steps, and that is actually one longer than yours xD

Eugenics was a good find, we can cut one step like this:
1.Eugenics
2.Natural selection
3.Peppered moth
4. etc

I suspect that every path to Lamprocabera has to go through Geomitridae, so then there is just not much to do. Unless someone finds a short route from Hitler directly to Geomitridae. Perhaps there was famous nazi who collected butterflies?

by **e^iπ+1=0** » Fri Apr 09, 2010 5:27 pm UTC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Wh ... mprocabera

by **zerker2000** » Fri Apr 09, 2010 8:21 pm UTC

0. Hitler
1. India
2. History of India
4. Indo-Greek Kingdom
3. Patalene
5. List of geometrid genera: L
6. Lamprocabera
Sorry, I did cheat:

Spoiler:

Scroll down to the middle for "from" and "to"; the database is over two years old though.

by **Zamfir** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 3:00 pm UTC

zerker2000 wrote:0. Hitler
1. India
2. History of India
4. Indo-Greek Kingdom
3. Patalene
5. List of geometrid genera: L
6. Lamprocabera
Sorry, I did cheat:
Spoiler:
<http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~mu/wiki/>
Scroll down to the middle for "from" and "to"; the database is over two years old though.

That artificial result is an error. The link from Indo-Greeks to Patalene is supposed to link to a region called Patalene, not to the list of Geometrids. In fact, even if it was supposed to be pointing to the moth species, it should have pointed directly to the article on the Patalene moth, not to the list.

Using an erroneous link that you found yourself might still be in the spirit of the game, but not this.

by **olubunmi** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 9:26 pm UTC

Albena Bakratcheva
1. Bulgaria
2. Operation Barbarossa
3. Adolf Hitler

Nanbu Nobuuki
1. Tokyo
2. World War II
3. Adolf Hitler

FIDA
1. United States
2. Axis powers
3. Adolf Hitler

Panagiotis Tachtsidis
1. Greece
2. Axis Powers
3. Adolf Hitler

And lastly:

Mautodontha consobrina
1. French Polynesia
2. World war II
3. Adolf Hitler

by **Fume Troll** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 11:51 am UTC

How about:

Adolf
1. Germany
2. Japanese cuisine
3. Citrus
4. Geometer moth
5. List of geometrid genera
6. List_of_geometrid_genera:_L
7. Lamprocabera

by **Zamfir** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 1:40 pm UTC

Fume Troll wrote:How about:

Adolf
1. Germany
2. Japanese cuisine
3. Citrus
4. Geometer moth
5. List of geometrid genera
6. List_of_geometrid_genera:_L
7. Lamprocabera

It is a thing of beauty. But not shorter.

by **eviloatmeal** » Sun May 02, 2010 6:56 am UTC

0. Geologic Hazards
1. Grindelwald
2. Switzerland
3. Luftwaffle
4. Adolf Hitler
5. World War II
6. Untied States
7. Puerto Rico
8. Geologic hazards

by **SummerGlauFan** » Sun May 02, 2010 7:04 am UTC

I can't believe how easy I had it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracelsus ... _U-Bahn%29 was my random article.
2. was Berlin U-Bahn
3. was Germany
4. was Hitler

by **Josephine** » Sun May 02, 2010 9:11 am UTC

Francis Maloney (rugby league)
England
World War II
Adolf Hitler
United Kingdom
Rugby League in England
championship 1
Batley bulldogs
Francis Maloney

backtracking like that is hard.

by **Zamfir** » Sun May 02, 2010 10:14 am UTC

SummerGlauFan wrote:I can't believe how easy I had it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracelsus ... _U-Bahn%29 was my random article.
2. was Berlin U-Bahn
3. was Germany
4. was Hitler

Can you do the reverse?

by **SuperTD** » Sun May 02, 2010 2:38 pm UTC

Pancake
Germany
Adolf Hitler

by **eviloatmeal** » Sun May 02, 2010 7:33 pm UTC

SuperTD wrote:Pancake
Germany
Adolf Hitler

3. Germany
4. German cuisine
5. Crêpe
6. Pancake

by **kaimason1** » Sun May 02, 2010 8:52 pm UTC

Enrico Gasparri
Pope Pius XI
Adolf Hitler

by **darkspork** » Mon May 03, 2010 5:38 am UTC

Christopher Lee (Singaporean Actor)
Defamation
Nation
Nationalism
Adolf Hitler

Kleinfurra
Germany
Adolf Hitler

Olanu
Romania
Censorship
East Germany
Adolf Hitler

Grennan Hill
Hill Fort
Baden-Württemberg
World War II
Adolf Hitler

Japan National Baseball Team
Japan
Nazi Germany
Adolf Hitler

Yatuá River
Venezuela
Dictator
Adolf Hitler

Owczary, Kraków County
Poland
World War II
Adolf Hitler

John Williams (Tennessee)
United States Senate Committee on Armed Services
World War II
Adolf Hitler

Anthony Draycot
Catholic Church
The Holocaust
Adolf Hitler

William Wharton (author)
World War II
Adolf Hitler

by **SOSkanesumi ARK** » Mon May 03, 2010 7:20 am UTC

start Rick Greene
1. 1992 summer olympics
2. Olympic Games
3. Germany
4. Hitler

by **SummerGlauFan** » Mon May 03, 2010 7:26 am UTC

Zamfir wrote:
SummerGlauFan wrote:I can't believe how easy I had it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracelsus ... _U-Bahn%29 was my random article.
2. was Berlin U-Bahn
3. was Germany
4. was Hitler

Can you do the reverse?

Starting with the article on Hitler:
1. Fall of Berlin
2. Berlin
3. Transport in Berlin
4. Berlin U-Bahn

by **Fume Troll** » Mon May 03, 2010 11:39 am UTC

Zamfir wrote:
SummerGlauFan wrote:I can't believe how easy I had it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracelsus ... _U-Bahn%29 was my random article.
2. was Berlin U-Bahn
3. was Germany
4. was Hitler

Can you do the reverse?

There's a link straight from Berlin U-Bahn to Hitler.

SummerGlauFan wrote:Starting with the article on Hitler:
1. Fall of Berlin
2. Berlin
3. Transport in Berlin
4. Berlin U-Bahn

There is a link straight from Berlin to Berlin U-Bahn

by **Ephemeron** » Mon May 03, 2010 10:02 pm UTC

My first attempt at a round trip:
0: Ffun --- the song was a number one hit in 1978
1: Earth, Wind & Fire
2: Music of Africa
3: Western Europe
4: Germany
5: Adolf Hitler --- Difficult at this point, since I couldn't find any links to years in his article.
6: German federal election, March 1933
7: European Parliament election, 1979 (West Germany)
8: 1979 --- At this point it would have taken me several more clicks, but I made a lucky find.
9: Earth, Wind & Fire
10: Serpentine Fire
11: Ffun
Only one in over the limit. Time for my second attempt...

EDIT: My fifth attempt got it in seven!
0: Hairy hands
1: United Kingdom
2: Winston Churchill
3: Adolf Hitler
4: United Kingdom
5: Cornwall
6: Dartmoor
7: Hairy hands

Some strategy advice for you:
USA is two clicks away from Hitler, via World War II.
Germany is of course one click away.
Finding a year on your way back is damn near impossible.
Navigating by categories takes far more clicks than you think it will, so don't try it.

by **Quate** » Tue May 04, 2010 2:51 am UTC

Start: Shadlog Bernicke
1. Christian
2. Messianic Judaism
3. Holocaust
4. Adolf Hitler

Start: Elijah Wald
1. United States
2. World War II
3. Adolf Hitler

Pretty easy :/

by **Fume Troll** » Tue May 04, 2010 5:57 am UTC

Ephemeron wrote:My first attempt at a round trip:
0: Ffun --- the song was a number one hit in 1978
1: Earth, Wind & Fire
2: Music of Africa
3: Western Europe
4: Germany
5: Adolf Hitler --- Difficult at this point, since I couldn't find any links to years in his article.
6: German federal election, March 1933
7: European Parliament election, 1979 (West Germany)
8: 1979 --- At this point it would have taken me several more clicks, but I made a lucky find.
9: Earth, Wind & Fire
10: Serpentine Fire
11: Ffun
Only one in over the limit. Time for my second attempt...

Just one less.

Ffun
1. Natalie_Cole
2. US
3. WW2
4. Hitler
5. Allies
6. US
7. Funk
8. List of funk musicians
9. Con Funk Shun
10. Ffun

by **SummerGlauFan** » Wed May 05, 2010 6:51 am UTC

Easy enough for one way travel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Maar

1. World War II
2. Adolph Hitler

Currently working on my backtracking

by **Red Rule** » Sat May 08, 2010 10:18 pm UTC

1. Joude Gorani (who?)
2. Nyon,_Switzerland
3. Switzerland
4. Hitler

by **zorro226** » Tue Jul 06, 2010 2:36 am UTC

Start: Albanian Airlines
1. Albania
2. Adolf Hitler

by **sellyme** » Tue Jul 06, 2010 3:03 am UTC

1. Santa Vergine con il Bambino
2. Italian (Italy)
3. Nazi Germany
4. Adolf Hitler

This would be so much better with Kevin Bacon. Or maybe people should have a "Hitler Number".

Strategy: Work backwards. Hitler is easy to get to from "Germany" or any similar. You can get there from any other country. A person's profile will always link to the country they were born in. So, in priority:

Click "Hitler".
Click "Germany".
Click country name.
Click persons name.

If you can't find any of those click "Random Article" again

by **vaguelyhumanoid** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 3:55 am UTC

1. List of Batman animated episodes
2. Batman
3. WWII
4. Hitler

1. Maduvu (look it up)
2. Indian martial arts
... can't do it... though I might be able to get to "Aryan".

1.Pittsburgh Technology Center
2. United States
3. Nazi Germany
4. Hitler

1. Benjamin Robbins Curtis
2. United States
3. Nazi Germany
4. Hitler

by **e^iπ+1=0** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 9:59 am UTC

vaguelyhumanoid wrote:1. Maduvu (look it up)
2. Indian martial arts
... can't do it... though I might be able to get to "Aryan".

You can so do it.

Start: Maduvu
1. Indian martial arts
2. India
3. List of countries and outlying territories by total area
4. Germany
5. Adolf Hitler

by **Ephemeron** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 11:30 am UTC

For easy reference for people playing, here is a list of pages that link directly to Hitler.

Spoiler:

Edit: Just to explain myself to the person below me, my list is sampled from the list Wikipedia has. I just chose ones on that list that I thought would be the most helpful.

by **e^iπ+1=0** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 11:34 am UTC

Or you could, you know, use the list that Wikipedia already has

by **WHSTech** » Sun Jul 11, 2010 12:52 pm UTC

Start: Colony class frigate
1: Lend-Lease
2: Adolf Hitler
3: Royal Navy
4: List of ships of the Royal Navy
5: List of frigate classes of the Royal Navy
6: Colony class frigate

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